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Facebook Is Also Like Toilet Paper and Heroin

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Less than a week after Facebook‘s big announcement about hitting 1 billion users, all anyone can remember are the chairs. Facebook celebrated hitting the milestone with its first ad campaign, an inspired effort that compared the social network to chairs. The Internet’s response has been swift. Mashable has tried its hand at lampooning the ad and the Tumblr Are Like Facebook has had some fun comparing Facebook to bananas and boxes, among other things. This latest parody takes things a bit further into NSFW territory as well as bizarro territory. (“The universe is a big place full of things that have names. And people you can connect with. People that have a hook for a hand…”) Is it funny? We’ll let you decide. Sound off in the comments. What Facebook Is Like Bananas Via Are Like Facebook Boxes Via Are Like Facebook Chair Via Are Like Facebook Dumpsters Via Are Like Facebook Empty Chairs Via Are Like Facebook Free Throws Via Are Like Facebook Muffins Via Are Like Facebook Pelicans Via Are Like Facebook Pillows Via Are Like Facebook Politicians Via Are Like Facebook Rappers Via Are Like Facebook Sad Kittens Via Are Like Facebook Sad-Kittens-fb-600 Via Are Like Facebook Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/toilet-paper-heroin-facebook/

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Fake Ad Rips Internet Explorer 9 in Most Devastating Way Possible

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No, there’s nothing wrong with your YouTube connection. The video above is just critiquing Internet Explorer 9 in the most devastating way possible: By demonstrating a clunky experience with the browser. The ad — which riffs on a real one from Microsoft — features fake reviews (“It’s kinda fast, I guess”) and other in-jokes (the person using the browser is using Bing to try to download Google Chrome.) You may be happy with IE9 and Microsoft will tell you that it’s browser is pretty damn good. Yet the fact remains that there are a lot of IE haters out there. While the people in Redmond will doubtlessly cry “low blow!” to the video above, haters will find some new fodder. For comparison’s sake, below is the IE9 ad that the parody is based on: Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/10/05/rips-internet-explorer-9/

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