Shutdown Facebook for the sake of humanity
I must write to George W. Bush and Al Gore and Bill Gates about this… While the world is panicking about the scarcity and ever-increasing price of energy, all the sudden this little useless social networking site called Facebook is taking over the online world like a storm. The problem is that, if you add up all the energy consumed by all the servers and desktops and laptops and network devices that are used to watch and run the website, plus all the time that the students in school are doing useless things on Facebook, while not contributing an iota to the progress of humanity, you have to admit that this is a huge huge waste of our global resources.
Heck! All the time that was spent over the past 5 years by American students to hug, kiss, spank, give beer, send gifts, test likeness, each others; if they were sleeping instead, it would have saved America tremendous amoung of energy and Internet bandwidth, lower pollution, and most likely increase America’s future competitiveness because those students would have more sleep and therefore in better shape to study the next day! Moreover, if they were reading books or doing research instead of hugging each other online, the world might already have a cure for cancer or AIDS or a better supercomputer to cope with the crazy weather shift.
I enjoy doing stuff online, such as email, blog, IM, share photos, read news, because that is the new way of getting in touch with the world. But when people spend most of their time hugging and kissing and spanking their friends’ friends and write meaningless things on somebody’s wall, I don’t think that contribute so much to the friendship or social relationship in any significant way.
In fact, I think we’re going backward with this thing. To me, Facebook is almost like students throwing scrap paper in the locker-room area, on which short and meaningless messages were written and randomly thrown to their friends’ locker or written on their locker doors… And the worst thing is that they’ve just started to open this to the public, any kids in primary school or high school can waste their precious time on this, and all the employees in work, all the teachers, all the nurses, all the engineers, Oh My God! So much for all the hype about yet-another-priceless-invention of the late Internet era, after YouTube and MySpace.
So, let’s get together and save our little world. Let’s write an open letter to Bush asking him to order Facebook shutdown, let’s ask Al Gore to make a movie about how much this is wasteful, and asking Bill Gates to give up buying Facebook’s stocks! For the sake of our children and America!