If facebook were the real world, and we could really just hide people we had pretended to be friends with while not offending them and without them knowing we had disqualified them from our lives, would everyone not be happier? Or would the world then be even worse off than we were in high school?  

I can’t decide.

It’s no secret that facebook depresses me.  And yet I find it compelling.  Like most things that depress me.

Note:  I have made the important decision not to capitalize “facebook.”

Episode 6, in which Russel gets trashed:

(incidentally, when I asked Russel why A Character Called Russel is looking in the trash bin, he said that originally his script had called for ACCR to pick a fast food bag out of the green-organic-matter bin, but that Rafi showed up late to shoot and they didn’t have time to do the fast food bag bit…this explains, also, why ACCR is taking the trash out in what is clearly orange afternoon light.)