Although Jesus is more of a Twitter kind of guy, he may have been the original inspiration for the “Like” button “Thumbs Up”

If you’re reading this, that means you’re on the Internet. And since you’re on the Internet, you probably have a Facebook account. And if you don’t, well, don’t bother. Although the party will probably never stop now that Facebook has over 500 million users, the party you’ll be joining isn’t the same party that was going on a year or two ago when Facebook enjoyed its early explosive success. Everyone finds their own special relationship with a social networking site like Facebook, so maybe you’re still quite delighted to have a bunch of people you would never have lunch with as friends, because it gives you someone to play Mafia Wars with. Or maybe you derive genuine gratification from “Liking” things or joining political causes, so you can incessantly share your liberal, conservative, or wingnut point of view (not that those are mutually exclusive terms) without actually having the skills or focus to engage in real activism. But if you happen to have joined around the time I did in 2008, you may have found the witty repartee has fizzled, the great friend reconnects have taken place, and you may have come to know all too well the banal existences of both yourself and your “friends”. If that’s the place you’re in, you may have also noticed a couple of interesting waves of new users over the past year or two. First, the ones who joined around that same time as you and I did in 2008 and just didn’t get it, treating the site like the next MySpace. Then, the wave of over-40′s who read about the site in Time Magazine, also didn’t get it, popped in and made goofs of themselves, and then got quiet abruptly, having no idea how to de-activate their account. Then everybody’s mom and grandma joined a few months later, and more recently, it seems that the kind of people who are still on AOL joined, and everything went to hell. What may surprise you though, is the fact that there are still people who haven’t joined. Below are just a few. Do you know anyone who hasn’t joined? Let us know.

	Osama Bin Laden You would think that being the mysterious and elusive mastermind of the most notorious terror organization in the world would make it a no brainer that Bin Laden wouldn’t have a Facebook account. So you may be surprised to learn that he did have one, and they shut it down on him.
	Charles Manson Surprisingly, Charles Manson also had a Facebook account. Although he originally enjoyed it quite a bit as way to attract new victims, he grew bored when he realized that dead friends don’t leave many comments. By the way, did you ever notice how much the swastika on his forehead resembles the Facebook “f” crossing itself?
	Waldo Actually, Waldo might have an account, but we couldn’t find it. But can you find the Facebook logo in the picture at left?
	Some Witch Doctor This fellow told us that his tribe kept asking him to be a member of their Facebook group, but he already had the only member he needed. He then invited us to visit his hut, but the translator wasn’t sure if he was saying he’d like to have us over for dinner or have us for dinner, so we politely declined.
	Jesus Jesus is actually more of a Twitter kind of guy, preferring followers to friends. However, it’s rumoured that he was the original inspiration for the “thumbs up” used on the “Like” button.
	Moses Although Moses was born thousands of years before Facebook even existed, Mark Zuckerberg claims to have found this ancient image in a shrine somewhere in the middle east, proving that there was originally only one commandment, i.e.: “Like Facebook”
	Rupert Murdoch When we asked Mr Murdoch if he had a Facebook account, he smugly said “Have an account? Hell, I bought the damn thing.” An assistant then whispered something in his ear, he turned around to look at the screen behind him, and stormed out of the room cussing.