Saturday, August 18, 2007

Click to see where I've been........

Now, I'm a pretty sarcastic guy, at times, very dry and negative. So I'm about to be very negative about something that has caught my eye lately. This is kind of lame that I'm referencing this through another website....but I'm about tired of the applications that have been added to facebook recently, one in particular.

I speak of the "Click to see Where I've Been" application. In case you're not familiar with the application, the user can show people viewing his profile ALL of the countries, his been to, ALL of the states his been to, and even ALL the places he wants to visit in the future. Now, this wouldn't be a problem if I was facebook friends with Ernest Hemingway or Charles Lindbergh....but let's be honest: I'm not, and all my facebook friends are douche-bags. I find the application totally unnecessary if the countries and places you’ve been includes: Mexico (SPRING BREAK '05), Florida (SPRING BREAK '06), Tennessee-Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia (on our way to SPRING BREAK '06!!!!!!). Even including the places you've lived....wow....I visited a foreign country for entire month....that must mean I've lived there. BLASPHEMY!!! This is the worst attempt at seeming like a worldly traveler I've ever seen in my life.

I think my favorite one I've seen so far includes just the states of Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. What a joke. Why don't you put "traveling" in your interests....oh wait, you already did. How was the turquoise jewelry stand on the side of the interstate in Arizona?.....clown.

The following are rules that I am petitioning for Facebook to implicate for adding this application, here are a few examples:

1. You must have had to lived in more than two states or countries to even qualify.
-Same rules apply for getting in-state tuition (1 year of living there with a guardian or alone)
-Going to school in a different state counts as living there (Over a 4 year period of time you will spend 28 months or more in that state)

2. Just because you spent over two months in a country for study abroad or a mission trip....it doesn't count....that's only a visit, you pillow-fluffer (once again in-state tuition rates apply 1 year tenure)

3. You suck.

4. You must have visited countries in different hemispheres.....

5. No one can see Hawaii on the map.

6. Visiting "3%" of the world doesn't qualify as being "worldly." Nor does it necessitate have the application. You must over 7 or 8 to even begin to qualify….

7. No one cares about where you "want" to go....everyone wants to go to Australia...you fist-clincher....

Until Bear Grylls, the Queen of England, or the Pope get on facebook, I don't think this application should be allowed. Oh, and cool turquoise bracelet.....