(Serious) Facebooking

All hail Facebook, for, in Christmas 2009, a group was set up by Mr and Mrs – Oh, I’ve forgotten their name (it doesn’t matter anyway) – anyway, they were so fed up of the X-Factor’s domination of the Christmas Number One slot, that they lobbied the country to buy some shit Rage Against the Machine song (as opposed to the shit ballad Simon Cowell was trotting out as ‘music’). It worked and Simon Cowell was suitable annoyed.

Now, today, about a month later, I get invitations to join this Facebook group and that Facebook group. However, these ones are slightly more serious that who gets to number one at Christmas time. There’s everything from ‘Stop the War in Iraq’ to ‘I Won’t Pay my Council Tax Until They Grit my Road’ (tempting, but I don’t want to go to prison).

I just wonder if a Facebook group will ever be taken that seriously. Sure, the causes are just, but I can’t see me clicking ‘JOIN’ on Facebook sending that many shockwaves into Downing Street to spur Gordon Brown into action and pulling all our troops out of the Gulf.

It’s worth noting I only join the really important Facebook groups like, ‘When Zombies Invade.’