The latest lunacy on Facebook: Are you lying down?
Have you ever wanted to lie face down in a public place?
Not because you had four too many bottles of Fireman's Four. No, you know, just to make people wonder what on earth you are doing it for.
Thankfully, some fearlessly amusing souls have created a Facebook game that will suit your very predilection.
It's called the Lying Down Game. And the rules of this wonderfully batty pursuit are very simple.
You have to find the weirdest place possible for anyone to lie down in. And that's where you lie down, face down, and have someone take a picture of you.
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CC Lying Down Game/Andy Sunley)
According to the group, the game has two criteria: "1) The more public the better. 2) The more people involved the better." You have to keep your hands flat by your sides and toes have to be pointing at the ground.
Otherwise, surprise us.
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CC Lying Down Game/ Ryan Hayes)
And, goodness me, have people used their artistic ingenuity to create one of the great absurdist art exhibitions of the 21st century. Or, indeed, any other century.
There are already more than 3,000 images on the group's page and no one can possibly do justice to the sheer insanity of some of the shots.
I can only hope that while preserving the integrity of your own bodies, you might be able to contribute further to this extraordinary human pursuit.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
Agreed: i wish facebook, twitter, and myspace (which is nearly dead) would be sucked into an internet black hole never to be heard from again. I am also almost wishing the same of google and their 'products that work, but don't actually work that great, but they are free, so what the heck'. Except, of course, their search engine--which there would need to be a replacement for before google and all of their data harvesting servers could go into said same black hole. I had so much hope for Wolfram | Alpha (such a cool name). But it's not so much a search engine as it is a figuring engine. Oh well.
Odd how that works out huh?
Yes, you're right. We are very lucky indeed.
Thank you for commenting and I hope you have some fun this weekend.
Chris
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- by chrisjames80 July 10, 2009 7:16 AM PDT
- if you dont like it, dont read it. too bad all these little internet p*ssies dont have to show their face along with their comments. they probably hate facebook because they dont have any friends.
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