X, oh!

I keep getting X’d. I’m sure you’re all getting X’d as well; some of you are maybe being X’d as you read this.

The application known as X Me is a logical response to the whimsy of the Facebook poke.  Many a time have I been asked by a neophyte Facebook user, “What’s with this poke thing? Does it do something? Is it good or bad?” (Okay, once somebody asked that.)

The poke, as you know, is simply a ‘what’s up’ you can throw at your friends; it’s a sillier version of the head-jerking guy nod that acknowledges the presence of other people without doing anything so committal as engaging them in conversation. It’s kind of the best way to let your more distant Facebook friends know that you remember they’re alive. Or to remind them that you are.

 But some of you (and you know who you are) have poked your friends so often that it doesn’t seem fun anymore. For you, there is X Me, where you can hug, bite, slap, annoy or give beer to your friends, and much more. X Me also features holiday-themed X’s. For example, around Thanksgiving, you can throw a pumpkin at someone, pray for them, shop with them, etc.

 My personal favorite action is “love,” and not only because I was raised by hippies. I like “love” because, unlike the others, it’s not exactly an action. It is a verb, they got that right. But to “love” your friends isn’t like “throwing a football” at them. Except, and this is why I so enjoy it, the way I love my friends really is like I’m throwing a football at them. A big, gleeful football made of me.

 It’s these little discoveries of other Facebook people who think like me that makes this all worthwhile.

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