Facebook: Alienating You From Your Fellow Man Since 2004
When I began at Idolator, Maura informed me that I would need to join Facebook as part of Gawker Media’s network. After much Danny Glover-in-Lethal Weapon griping, I grudgingly accepted my social networking fate, and began posting inane quips about my personal life like 1,000,000,000 other people. But this morning something changed. As I logged onto Facebook, drank my coffee, and read my friends’ posts about Christian puppetry, I happened to notice a disquieting bulletin from Gawker:
Top Music in the Gawker Media network.
1 Gorillaz
2 Difranco
3 Deftones
4 Dave Mathews Band
5 Damien Rice
What the hell? Ani DiFranco? DMB?? It’s like the playlist of a large, faceless Midwestern college with a mediocre football team and a lackluster academic program that produces a lot of accountants. UGAWK. Or something. Clearly our endless posts about the Jonas Brothers and T.I. have not been enough. You’re only encouraging us!
