Lately we’ve noticed a disturbing trend amongst our social networking invites. Along the onslaught of people you don’t know haranguing you to join LinkedIn, there also lies an entirely different breed, friends i.e. people we go grab beers with etc., asking us to become their fans.
Not that we aren’t fans of our friends (we are), but when people we know on a personal level are asking us to become a fan, or by definition an “enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc” it begs inquiry as to what exactly constitutes a “sport, pastime, or celebrity” in this day of instant and abundant fame.
A time-consuming search through Facebook pages reveals some of the dumb things you can become a fan of. And to save you clicking time, we’ve compiled some of the best…
Read more at “Five Most Pointless Facebook Fan Pages.”
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And all those pages should be deleted. They violate FB TOS, which has become a common rampant thing since people on there now have no college classes in reading comprehension. Pages were and should stay for BUSINESS use only. And the engineers are idiots for not putting protocols in place to restrict page creation to REAL business people.