"12 of your friends became a fan of not being eaten alive by wolves"

I've decided to start this page off properly with a topic that affects us all, especially in the last few days. Everywhere you turn has been filled with news on the dangerous spread of these terrible people and if something is not done about it soon, it could bring down the thing we love most of all. They are growing in strength and due to the failing of the current leaders, they may become unstoppable. I am of course talking about the dangerous evil that is, the Facebook fan page.

Recently it seems that every time I log on to Facebook, I am bombarded with messages about what my friends have become fans of. Such earth shattering hobbies as 'Sleeping' 'Eating' 'Summer' and 'Oxygen". I might have made that last one up, but I wouldn't be surprised if it existed. Who creates these pages? Somebody out there must think "Hey, I wonder if anybody else out there sleeps?" and create a fan page for all those people out there who don't purposefully stay up for their entire lives because. 'that sleeping business is for losers'. This narrows down the amount of people that may be interested in joining this group to roughly EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

It won't be long before the name of the blog becomes a reality. People will be becoming fans of 'Being Alive' 'Breathing' and 'Not being repeatedly run over by a big truck while being licked by people with leprosy and having my legs dissolved in acid". Sorry, got a bit carried away there. I'd better take the "What kind of tractor are you?" quiz to calm down. Seriously. That actually exists.

I'm not against the concept of being a fan altogether. The Inbetweeners, people falling over and Newcastle being relegated, all hilarious. I'm also a fan of Cardiff City, who's end of season was pretty hilarious for somebody who supports any other team. Becoming a fan of a band is also acceptable, even if I was once greeted with "Person X became a fan of The Beatles". Newflash! Everyone likes The Beatles. People who don't like music like The Beatles. I recently saw the latest Terminator film, and if the invincible, merciless killing machine from the film was real, even he would hum to Hey Jude if it came on the radio of the truck he was trying to kill John Connor with. Children from the most deprived areas in the world, Kabul, Darfur and even Swansea hold up their lighters and sway when they hear Let it Be over Red Cross FM.

This then, is an appeal. Stop the facebook fan page madness. Strike back against the quiz makers who want you to tell the world what kind of tractor, sushi, or horse you are. You aren't any of them. Stop it. If you were any of those things, you wouldn't have Facebook. They don't have hands (apart from the Handatron Tractor 2000) .

Together, we can make a better future for Facebook everywhere.