XTreme Fandom

I’m all-for being a fan and promoting what you believe in, and maybe I’m taking my purism to an obscene level, but there are just some things that you have to laugh at or else you’ll go nuts.

Last week, Facebook launched vanity URLs, like your MySpace usernames only with “facebook.com/” in front of them and about two years late. Thank God! Now I don’t have to memorize my 12-digit, numeric user ID and those of my friends. Death to friend codes! (You hear that, Nintendo?)

As someone older than twelve, (which, by the way, twelve year-olds should probably not be allowed to have FB accounts – there’s some nasty stuff on there), I’m not particularly fond of keeping my “handle” around for the rest of my life. Being creative is fun, but eventually all dads need to lose the bell-bottom jeans and overly-long mustaches. Now’s the time of boot-cut and goatees, get with the program!

Some FB users didn’t get the memo, however; and their loyalties are abundantly – and permanently – clear. There are Halo fans, ([1], [2]), Star Wars junkies, ([1]), and g33k5 in general, ([1]), and assholes, ([1]), that abound.

I’m all for indulgences, but even I don’t think I could profess my unwavering allegiance to the Horde or play such a practical joke on a friend like that. Way to go, fellas and lady, you’ve successfully wrought detrimental opinion to the entire community; though you’ve sure made a great many of us laugh our asses off as well!

(Inspired by TechCrunch.)