This year for Valentine’s Day, Facebook introduced “gifts” — a series of icons designed by early Macintosh icon generator Susan Kare which, for one dollar, users could buy and send along with a short message to another user — a social networking Valentine’s Day card. Big deal, maybe.
But starting last cycle Facebook has sought to cooperate with political candidates, and plenty have accepted (Virginia senator Jim Webb, most amusingly). So now some of the 2008 candidates have official pages, none more popular than — drumroll please — Illinois senator Barack Obama.
Not coincidentally, he’s got the fattest “gift box” of all:
At first glance, you’d think it stuffed with saccharine sweet time-wasters. And so it was, when you clicked through, but in more of a… MySpace kind of way:
Other gifts were just plain goofy:
The following gift exemplifies a concept utilized several times, but here most concisely:
And at least one took a small dig at the current DNC chair:
Still, more than a few were on the racy side:
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How about the other candidates on Facebook? John McCain and Mitt Romney either got none or weren’t accepting them, which if so would be just as well — Webb got just two. Hillary got a whole 13, but because it looks as if she’s letting Facebook handle the admin duties on her page, message control… isn’t quite what it could be:
How funny would it be if the Obama campaign had to report the $1 gifts? I can imagine filling out the FEC form and then pissing myself laughing.
$1 Dick in a Box
Jordan Reagan
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