By samanthaorwell on February 17, 2008 - 5:28pm
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/02/facebook-friend-sluts....
You are a facebook slut if you
1) Find acquaintences on your friends' friends list and add them as your own friend list very well knowing your own social ties to them are weak at best
2) Find old high school classmates on the Facebook groups and add them even though the most contact you could muster up for five years of high school consisted of writing "HAGS" [have a great summer] or "FAGS" [find a guy/girl soon] on their yearbook.
3) Are a "social networker" and add friends left and right to promote your own political agenda (maybe the least offensive of the Facebook friendslut personalities yet still a full-fledged slut].
4) Any of the above, but you are on the receiveing end of the friend invite- i.e. a friendslut adds you and you accept very well knowing he/she/it is a friendslut adding you for the purposes of having a bloated friendslist.
I excpect maybe 200 people to be the max on a real friends list. Maybe more if you're older than 30 or have had a lot of different jobs or gone to a lot of different universities. But even then I'd say 300 is the real limit of real friends.
By samanthaorwell on January 18, 2008 - 5:27pm
New to local politics (and I mean really new to local politics, I've been digesting both COPE and Visions platforms to decide which party I'd like to officially support. After looking at their respective websites I still couldn't really say for sure. Both have their appeal in completely different ways. In the sure-fire working-class corner there's COPE which champions for the poor and working poor. They appeal to people who know that they are working class, or to those who take Marxist ideals personally. Vision, on the other hand, appeals to the "socially conscious" middle class. In other words (or at least in my opinion), it appeals to those who don't know they are working class or would rather not think about themselves in such a way (myself included). My personal conflict choosing between the two parties involves both my deep intellectual belief in Marxism coupled with my personal dislike of understanding my stance as working-class- factors I'll need to reconcile if I'm to choose either way. But first a little backgrounder-
A little history on the COPE-Vision split care of Wikipedia:
Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.
