The Facebook Gifts application has 10,000,000 little virtual birthday cakes for $1 each. I find it very disturbing that people might spend $10,000,000 on virtual birthday cake. I can see people buying this cake...a dollar here and there. But then...there's lots of disturbing stuff nowadays. There's lots of disturbing stuff all of the time. It's a good thing we have inherent filter mechanisms...or are we just really dead to it all?

It would seem like Facebook would be a good place to rally people toward a good cause or something - but then, Facebook was created for recreation and maybe escape. It would seem that the majority of the time people spend on Facebook is spent escaping real life (real encounters, real action). I think Facebook is very good for popcorn communication - quick messages, even quicker posts, and little snapshots of people's lives - a very good overall picture of a person's life at one point in time. But given human nature...I think Facebook is turning out to be more like the twilight zone - not life giving, but life consuming.

Oh man...I feel like I'm deteriorating. I think my blog posts a year ago definitely had more substance to them. If all I can do is lament at the condition of things - there's already plenty of lamentation going on...we need hope!