By Michael Pankonien

Staff Writer

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you probably have a facebook. You use it to connect with friends, find people who’ve moved away, and let your own friends know what you’ve been up too. Another function of facebook however is it’s groups and fan applications which allow you to join groups with other people and join fan pages for various things. These two applications have lost their value now however due to recent trends of not actually joining groups that are actually helpful, but just “fun”. For instance, the popular “If 1m people join, girlfriend will let me turn our house into a pirate ship” group which currently has a size of 1.4 million fans. Fan pages like these are ruining the use for fan pages and groups since the groups themselves are no longer helpful for anything. Unless people move away from silly fan pages and groups, the apps themselves will slide further away from any basic facebook users attention.