I did some research on why Gaysbook is so popular. Turns out that one of the gentlemen who created facebook.com, Chris Hughes, now works for Barack Obama, and primarily acts as the coordinator of online organizing at my.BarackObama.com - the campaign's online social networking website. The COO of facebook.com, Sheryl Sandberg, was hired to handle facebook's sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy issues and communications. Before that, she was Google's sales head, and prior to that, she was chief of staff to U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the Clinton administration. Why the sudden popularity of facebook.com? You make your own conclusions.
On a sidenote, Gaysbook can get you killed, if you're stupid enough to publicly expose your privacy: In December 2006, campus police at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington were investigating the theft of two PlayStation consoles, which had been stolen by the two perpetrators of a beating and robbery on campus. They planned to raid the rented house of Peyton Strickland, an 18-year-old student at nearby Cape Fear Community College. They discovered that the other alleged robber, Ryan Mills, had posted photographs of himself on Facebook in which he posed with guns. Expecting "heavily armed resistance" at Strickland's house, the officers called in a SWAT team for backup to raid Strickland's house. When they arrived at the residence, which three students rented, they were not immediately let in. As one officer began to break down the door with a battering ram, another officer mistook the sound of the battering ram for gunshots and shot into the door, killing the unarmed Strickland. The officer, Christopher Long, was not charged with second-degree murder by two different grand juries.
So remember kids, by registering an account at Gaysbook, you are feeding the Beast information about you and your friends. Everything that you publish on the internet can and will be used against you.
Big Brother is watching you.
