It is still up-in-the-air why certain groups do not succeed in their groups that accomplish seemingly unrelated goals, but with the Darfur example, I think it might be because the Janjaweed rebels, who are massacring Darfurians, do not have internet access.

However, there have been other groups that seek to accomplish goals which some might deem “realistic” because the people in charge actually have influence over the outcome. For example, last winter, Jonathan Morse started a group proclaiming that if 250,000 people joined it, he would go streaking at the first Red Sox-Yankees game of this year.

He got the necessary number of members but didn’t do it. This time it is easier to find the culprit: Jon Morse is a coward. Morse’s Gerald Warrenesque smack talk provocked a wildfire of backlash and multiple groups against him. Most of those have since been deleted as has Morse’s group.

Why do I bring this up? It just goes to show that technology doesn’t always do what it is meant to do. In the larger scheme of life, things don’t always work out as we want them to. We expect more than we can get. Just as the Patriots signal stealing hasn’t helped them win 5 straight Super Bowls, neither has any Facebook group. Facebook was created with the noble vision of fixing everyone’s problems just by having a ton of people join a group. Sadly, it hasn’t worked out that way, but it has functioned as a good tool to communicate with friends. Everything finds a purpose.

This seems like a weird post to me, too, but I had fun writing it. Post your thoughts in the comments.

Then again, if you got this far, you probably didn’t completely hate it.