[High Praise! to The Duffel Blog]
Members of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit have confirmed that they will be conducting a deployment to Facebook to stop a flame war.
MEU commander Colonel James Christmas told reporters he had received a warning order from U.S. Cyber Command yesterday evening and that Marines should be prepared to deploy immediately to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Colonel Christmas also said that the 22nd MEU will be evacuating thousands of Internet Displaced Persons or IDPs, fleeing Facebook for other social media sites. Both MySpace and Google+ have offered to take the refugees, claiming they have “plenty of space available.”
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Heh. Wait’ll they bring back the quartering act. (“What do you mean I have to give space to a couple of soldiers on my blog?”)
How come we don’t have anything like that flame war around here?
I guess it’s because we’d have to deploy to I D A H O !
I’d pay good money to see that. Will they sell tickets or allow one of their sychophant networks to cover it on TV? I know pay per view!