Sex and death the Facebook way! by Mark Morford

[madokie]

Sex and death the Facebook way!
By Mark Morford

About 40 people, mostly teen girls, gathered for a fight outside Bartram High School. Rival groups of girls ... were involved in a conflict on Facebook before the shooting. At least 15 shots were fired from two handguns after the brawl started. -- Associated Press

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Behold, our beloved mechanisms of fear and desire, doom and delight! How they dance and sing in ways that make us giggle like obese children at the county fair, like drunken bears let loose at the campground. How they make us so very happy, horny, powerful like gods, and then turn right around and kill us dead. Ain't it a bitch?

Is it not true? Have you seen how every new and once-benign invention, creation, gizmo, service, blip and hiccup in the man-made maelstrom seems ultimately to result in someone getting blown away, raped, kidnapped, drugged up, beaten, gutted and filleted and eaten alive by angry beetles in a garbage can? What a bizarre little species we are. What a surreal culture we hath wrought. ...

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[KharmaTrain]

1. Looks Like A Cheap Shot At Facebook...

Methinks that the hatred would have found its end one way or another...if not Facebook then on another site or means. Not long ago there was a local story of a fight that was spurred by a text message that was sent around, changed to make it sound nastier and nastier. Technology is what people make of it...and those looking for the negatives will always find them.

I've seen a lot of flame wars on Facebook...the James O'Keefe page was hillarious since his arrest...but I've also encountered a ton of old friends and new ones that far outweigh any of the nastiness I see on there...