The Butt Ugly Weblog

Using Facebook for what it was meant to

Heh. I got a chuckle out of the Facebook Widsets Pets application: you can create your own virtual pet out of yourself and have your friends take care of it.

You get to take virtual care of a picture of someone you once knew in a service mostly concerned about non-existent things like vampires. If it were any more redundant, it would create a perfect vacuum and make the universe implode.

Needless to say, I signed up immediately.

(Yeah, it's a Nokia app, so my ravings need to be taken with a pinch of salt. But I still think it's wonderfully bonkers ;-)