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Michael Ian Black Has a Love/Hate Relationship with Facebook

by Terrence O'Brien on December 20, 2008 at 10:39 AM


Poor Michael Ian Black. First 'The State' got canceled, then 'Stella.' He's since been reduced to one-liners on VH1's 'I Love the (fill in the blank)' series, and now he's had his Facebook account disabled.

The under-appreciated comedian had his account disabled for unspecified reasons, which led him to post a scathing and hilarious rant on his blog:
"How am I supposed to receive invitations to events to which I have no interest in attending? How am I supposed to keep up with what various high school students I have never met are doing? How am I supposed to install and then uninstall various applications because they are annoying? Facebook, don't you realize that these activities take up most of my waking hours?"
Black did get his account reactivated a day later, though that hasn't made him love Facebook anymore. He thanked Facebook's customer service for quickly reinstating his account, then went on to bemoan the company's 5,000 friend limit:
"Now I can go back to not being able to add more friends to my account because of your stupid f---ing 5,000 friend limit... for the first time in my life, people want to actually befriend me, and I am forced to ignore them... A lot of these people are dying. A lot of them are orphans. And quite a few are dying orphans with adorable puppies... Remember Friendster? They hated orphans and puppies, and look what happened to them."
We didn't even realize that Facebook had a 5,000 friend limit. Guess we're just not that cool. [From: Michael Ian Black, Via: Valleywag]

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