Facebook Applications Are The New Pet Rock
September 13th, 2007
The 1970’s brought us Gary Dahl’s famous Pet Rocks.
For about $3.95 you could buy an ordinary rock, swaddled in excelsior, wrapped in a glorious box and paired with a manual that helped you figure out how to care for your pet rock. It made Dahl a millionaire and about 400,000 people silly, fad-chasing automatons. And sadly, today, while there has yet to be money involved — our good friends over at Facebook are spitting out silly, time-wasting, ludicrous add-on applications that the automatons are flocking to yet again…and trying to get me to join.
Which I won’t. Because Facebook Applications are the new Pet Rock.
