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Facebook (Sung to the melody of the song "Silence")

Hello Facebook my old friend.

I'm reading posts on you again.

Up at 2:30 in the morning

Checking likes and shares and replying.

Read alerts beneath the ringing bell.

What the hell, am I doing on Facebook?

 

As through the posts I quickly scroll.

Seeing kittens, dogs and trolls.

Trying not to click on the ad spam.

Found a recipe for a baked ham.

And a private message from a long lost friend.

But I know not when.

I added this person, on Facebook.

 

10,000 clicks and maybe more.

My index finger's mighty sore.

All the smileys, likes and emojis.

Likes on my posts giving me jollies.

Requests from people that I do not even know.

My friends list grows.

To thousands of people, on Facebook.

 

"Will this nightmare ever end?"

I ask as I add a friend.

But all the games and all the puzzles.

Popping balloons and bursting bubbles.

I have got to try to get a better score.

It's such a chore.

Playing the games, on Facebook.

 

Suddenly one day I learned.

Zuckerberg on me had turned.

Selling all my saved information.

To companies in all lands and nations.

Making a profit off me like I was his ***

I did not know.

Violated, by Facebook

 

But I did not stay mad long.

Even though it was so wrong.

I have to see how many likes I had.

I want to know this stuff awfully bad.

And now the data selling's out of mind.

And thus I find.

Myself again, on Facebook.

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