the art of the brand

Recently FaceBook dropped a number of its add-on “aps.” This made room for others. In mail over the weekend i was told that 3 of my woman friends needed some help. People wanted to date them, and only I could make it happen. Now, one of the women friends is specifically involved with somebody already, one of them just got done with a not-so-great relationship, and the 3rd one is …close to me. This therefore intrigued me.

here’s the email, altered to protect, well…all of us..

Upon reaching the page, I find the values of a meat rack. I further note, that what has actually happened is that the dataminers at chainn have noticed 3 women on my friends list who have not made themselves available for auction and inspection. I am further told that there is someone interested in me, and i can find out who–by accumulating enough “friends at FaceBook I can con into adding thr same ap. I will of course get paid twice as much for getting women onto the stage as men. Because ? O. yeah. That’s a standard in the meat rack industry going back to half of half price drinks for women at “happy hour” –the time spent trying to get “happy endings.”

Here’s the score card in case you wondered.

I note that for a small sum of coinage I can be put opn display with a prominent ranking. I declined the offer.

Checking the Google group–a free service by Google to Chainn, evidently, in exhcnage for noting part of my demographics–I found numerous complaints about the ap’s development and stylings. In fact, I left one of my own:
may be one of the most diseased things i’ve seen on fb recently.
lets see, u get twice as many points for getting women sucked into
it as men…which tells any woman something..if she wants to hear it.
a wonderful principal that has worked at pickup bars and meat racks
for centuries.
then the message that i am somehow more competent, powerful etc
because i am the person who can “match them up”.. with?? that doesn’t
matter, as long as some matching gets done, right?
then of course the wonderful idea that i am supposed to help
somebody else get a date with women i may be seeing myself? Sure. That
works for me.
In theory, if someone has lots of “friends” they may not notice the
set up…a chain letter with no reward except the dim impossibility of
being able to breed in the future. Why not just monetise the ap by
telling people to send $5 to the person who invited them, and tell
them to keep spreading invites?
I am interested tho, in the datamining you will be getting.
my other thoughts are on my blog.
http://bridgesolution.com/news
btw, this is not some stick in the mud who doesn’t get it. it’s
from somebody in the now enough to be repping the cheerful goths from
amazing race, but who is ethical enough to say some things are just
wrong.”

We now have another metric for the menaing of “social computing”–a term used by FB’s CEO for what is being developed overall. It looks remarkably like the formula used by ants for propagating pheromones.

When will we see valid interactions between people of integrity being the foundational basis? It’s an old problem. I congratulate the courage of some of the people at FB for attempting to head that way. I feel ever so sad for the failures of the present society to give them any examples of how to get there.