For all of the rhetoric about college students not getting off their asses to get motivated about anything, we forgot about the methods that don't require college students to get off of their asses at all. As all you college students know by now, the student Mecca Facebook.com has added an unweildy, ugly, creepy new feature called the "Facebook News Feed." Bascially, the Feed makes it so that everybody who looks at your page able to immediately see everything that you've updated on your page or anybody that you have spoken to through Facebook. Facebook was rather creepy and stalkerish before, and this new feature crosses the line.
First of all, everyone knows stalking is only fun if you have to work at it. Having everything that each of your friends does right in front of you completely misses the point of stalking. Second-of-ly, the Feed makes one's Facebook page really really ugly.
Since this issue is so important to college students, it is uniting them on a level never seen before. In just two days, the Facebook group "Students Against Facebook News Feed" has 235,394 members (as of 2:40 PM today), and is adding members at a rate of about 400 per minute. Compare this to the 327,054 votes by which Rick Santorum won reelection in 2000. By later this afternoon, Students Against Facebook News Feed will have surpassed that number. Hell, it could reach a million members by tomorrow.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we have the solution to the apathy of young voters. We've finally cracked the Get Out The Vote puzzle! All Bob Casey, Ned Lamont, Jim Webb, Harold Ford et. al. need to do in order to secure election is say that their opponent intends to change Facebook.