what is facebook?

what's funny is this post will also be syndicated by my publisher to facebook. i love syndication, it's Really Simple (rotflol, if you know what i mean.)

i don't feel in the mood to capitalize properly, i'll make up for it later.

can someone please explain the purpose of facebook to me? i think i once knew, but i sort of forgot.

let me tell you what i thought facebook was. i was under the impression it was like this hip place for kool kats to logon and keep up wit their peeps. but no, that's incorrect, it seems.

apparently, facebook is the place where random nobodies ask to be your friend, and then all the nobodies send you a request to install every single facebook application to your profile - and then - those applications send you your email inbox's capacity of messages telling you...

"Harry Bladder has sent you a piece of flair, would you like to view his/her gift to you?";

"Mary Sue [who happens to be your mother] just poked you, would you like to poke him/her back?";

"Jim Bob Dungaree has invited you to join the group 'Dorky acne-ridden minimum wage earning teenage employees of McDonald's on the corner of Second and Main. -DARMWETEMOTCSM'. click here to view the group."

so, that's insanely annoying, but it can be stopped while still retaining your membership to facebook. now what? i took a quick poll (meaning, continued my irritating habit of watching my friends browse the web over their shoulder) to find out. they sit there, at facebook.com/flair, looking at stupid 3D buttons with clever messages that you look at, laugh at, and then send them to your 'friends'. that's dumber than alphabetizing dead lobster.

in the first place, you really need to be clicking stupidly on ads at the excellence in dishwashing network site, not facebook. and secondly, there's never been a better time to invest in gold. and third, what does that mean, face book? like a book for your face? i don't even know what that means. and fourthly, you really only need one flair, and your set for life.