More Jems from the internet

I read a few amazing pieces of news in my facebook feed today. There are times when I feel like People abuse the amazing piece of technology that is facebook to say unimportant things. Not today Times like these make me thank the powers that be that I never went on a facebook purge of people who I was acquaintances with in high school. Here's one:
 

"Lol. Patròn is awesome. XD"

This is the kind of thing that everybody needs to hear. All facebook users should take note that THIS is what facebook should be used for. It starts with a laugh, out loud, because this statement is really funny. I mean this is the kind of thing that I hope we all would have the general decency to stop what we are doing (Drinking Patrón) and inform, or at least remind everyone we know who can access the internet, that Patrón IS in fact awesome. This is the kind of original thought that needs to be spoken. This is not one of those statuses that make me wish I didn't know how to read so that my sight of the words wouldn't trigger a translation of symbol to idea in my brain.

“Really wants to do something fun tonight...sick of just laying around all the time!” 

Thanks to the wonder of facebook people like this facebook friends don’t have to go through the hassle of calling a friend to hang out, instead they can post passive statements that might prompt both sympathy “likes” and perhaps one of their friends can call them instead. Before facebook we couldn’t just be lazy friends. We all had to put in the work of contacting a specific individual to make plans with them. Now, thankfully, we can put that responsibility in the hands of everyone else while subtly blaming them for our boredom: Thanks Mark Zuckerberg.

All sarcasm aside, I am saddened by the amount of time that must be put into typing pointless statuses into your facebook account. I know that I have been guilty of posting these kind of things. There should be a monitoring system a la Reddit.com that filters the stupidity that we inject into the internet. Whether it is an impulse to share this unimportant info or some people actually think it is important, the world could use people who get paid to filter through the overwhelming amount of meaningless information that flows through our news feed.