Teen Wolf and Facebook and Me.
Jul 31st by Jon
I recently found myself at a crossroads with Facebook. You can only have a certain number of friends and I am about to hit that number, which unless I am mistaken, means I can’t accept many more friend requests.
So, I did what I always do when I face social media quagmires, I asked myself, “What Would Teen Wolf Do?”
The first two answers to this question are always the same. When faced with a dilemma, Teen Wolf would:
1. Turn into an adolescent canis lupis and throw down a sick dunk in the middle of a basketball game against the team that the rich jerk is on.
2. Turn into an adolescent canis lupis and surf on the top of a van despite that fact that Boof is going to be really disappointed in him.
But the third thing that Teen Wolf would do when faced with my situation is register a fan page on Facebook. I tried to argue the very obvious ego ramifications of registering your own Jonathan Acuff fan page but what can you do, that is one radical wolf.
So I did. Here is the link to the fan page, which I will be updating with a variety of things including some info about the new version of the Stuff Christians Like site that is in the works. You should befan me (befan is the new befriend) by clicking right here.
And in case all that Teen Wolf talk got you interested, here’s a fan page for the wolf himself.
Comments
I am so freaking full of myself. Now I want you to be my fan!
You've just become a modern day Moses when he wrote in Numbers 12:3, "Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth."
It's all good.
Dear fake Jon Acuff
I must commend you on 2 things:
1. Getting up early. Your comment yesterday was posted at 6AM. It's good to know we're both early morning people.
2. Offering me an unexpected gift of humility. I've got an ego problem and although your comments might not be meant as a gift they force me to gut check what I'm doing. In this particular case I could either reject new friend requests on facebook or start a fan page and be friends with anyone. Of the two options I felt like the second was less jerky, but I'm going to get things wrong sometimes so please keep the gut checks coming
jon
What kind of egomaniac has his own Fan Page?? JUST KIDDING! It's a great idea.
I'm an FB fan now. And I'll even do you one better — un-friending you so one of the friends that you've actually met can have a spot in your Friends list.
Being your friend on Facebook is what validates me both as a Christian and a human being. I check every hour to make sure we're still FB friends; Every half hour that you're still following me on Twitter (you know how Twitter can be). I may need to get some more Skittles from you, though, as the heat from the candles that surround them in the Jon Acuff shrine (so what if it takes up two rooms? My daughter loves the couch) has started melting them inside the package. And it just occured to me to make a few more Facebook accounts for the sole purpose of being your friend and fan. That's what it says to do in the book of Jon, right?
(PS Join my Mafia, my vampire clan, become my neighbor in Farmville, hunt with me on MouseHunt, and let me know what brand of Salad Shooter you are.)
(PPS don't read anything into this; Just my attempt at being amusing. In Christian love!)
That is an awesome idea. So good I am going to steal it.
Not because I have so many friends, but because Facebook cancellled my account for being a fish. (Speciests)
So if I can't have friends, let me have fans instead.
BTW I am now a fan on facebook (under my real, non-fishy name of course) and will probably be cancelling our friendship to let someone who actually knows you take my place. Don't take it personally.
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I still love that her name is "Boof"
Dear fake Prodigal Jon,
You're good… You even put my picture on your fake "commending" post. I have to hand it to you.
But you forgot something. You should have told me that a real gift of humility would have been to suggest that I delete my Facebook account and only interact with people "face-to-face" rather than "Facebook-to-Facebook." But that is just not technologically savvy enough and wouldn't help me to promote my book.
Dear fake fake prodigal jon,
well played
Jon
The limit on facebook friends was rescinded several months ago.
Hi Jered. I think you'll find the friends limit on Facebook is 5000, as one of my "friends" has just reached that limit & has indeed, started his own fan page.
I have a friend on my list (here) who just passed 5,000.
Someone can take my place. Kinda of tired of 47 comments on subjects such as "i scratched my head" yeah it has become a fan club