Thursday, February 18, 2010

Beck fan sites on Facebook

Glenn Beck has been described as many things, mostly by people who don't really understand him. Hater, fearmonger, polarizer, conspiracy theorist. I've heard or read all of these. However, unlike most of his detractors, I've actually taken the time to watch or listen to his shows and he really is none of those things. Yeah yeah, I know you won't take my word for it. Nonetheless, several of my friends on Facebook have recently started joining what can only be described as anti-Glenn Beck fan sites. Two such sites: "Can this dung beetle get more fans than Glenn Beck" and "Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck" have gotten a few people to join them, 68K and 205K respectively. Beck's fan site (I don't know if it is official or not) has over 665K fans so far. Of course, there are three issues I see here. One, there are competing anti-fan sites which would perform much better if they just worked together but that would be monopolistic so the left wouldn't think of it. Two, not only does one person have way too much time on their hands to create this kind of anti-fan site, but apparently two people, at least, do. Three, they are both going at it the wrong way in trying to get more fans than Beck's fan site. After all, the nielsen ratings show he has 3 million viewers a day many of whom are obviously not on Facebook, so if these anti-fan site administrators really wanted to try and make a statement, they should be going after that many people, not just trying to beat his fan site, which they aren't even able to do. Anyway, I found this entire thing quite funny and just had to share.

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