The Somewhat Ambitious

I recently purchased the Dave Eggers edited anthology ‘The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008′ (a wonderful miscellany of unorthodox writings from the previous year) and found myself thoroughly entertained by their list of the best Facebook groups currently doing the rounds. While I’m sure this is already being documented somewhere online, it seems kinda refreshing to blog about something IRL. Terrifying, terrifying real life. But yes, here’s an excerpting of some of the better examples:

If This Group Reaches 15K, Kevin and I Will Have A Pinecone Eat-Off
Beer Pong Is A Game, Beirut Is A Wartorn City in Lebanon
I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York
Writing Papers Single-Spaced First Makes My Double-Spaced Result Climactic
I’m Saving Myself For Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex
It Wasn’t Awkward Until You Said “Well, This Is Awkward”. Now It’s Awkward.
Real Friends Kill Friends Who Become Zombies
That Waldo Is A Tricky Son Of A Bitch
Friends Don’t Let Friends Invade Russia With Winter Approaching
Stop Losing Your Fucking Phones
I Wikipedia Things I Don’t Care About And Work Them Into My Conversations
A Realistic Assessment of How Many Twelve-Year-Olds You Could Beat Up
I See That You Are Gangster. I Am Pretty Gangster Myself.

Not that I would actually join any of these groups. After an initial swirl of excitement when I first joined Facebook that resulted in me joining well over 50 groups in the space of a fortnight, I realised the severe redundancy of it all and began ignoring all requests out of hand, no matter how crucial or funny. Then I returned to my easy chair, muttering ‘Bah! Humbug!’ and throwing ammonia at singing orphans to make them go away. Fucking orphans.

/Luke

P.S. Yes, the photo is irrelevant, but God I want to know what was going on.