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Jun032010

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in AuthorLowcountry Geek



If you’re my ‘friend’ on Facebook you’ve  probably noticed that I’ve updated by status every day over the past two weeks simply by stating how many days oil has been “leaking”  into the Gulf. For instance my status for a portion of today simply was ‘Day 45.’

Leaking in quotes because is this really a leak as the media keeps describing it? I mean a leak? I don’t know how you can leak thousands of barrels of oil a day. Leak seems a bit too feeble a verb.

Anyway, I’m not going to go on and on about BP as I did in a previous blog. Instead, I’m simply going to say that my status updates aren’t really about BP anymore. People responded to my last blog with comments questioning my end-goal and whether I understood that boycotting BP really doesn’t accomplish anything because all our crude, regardless of company, ends up mixing all together anyway.

Yeah, I get that. I even said this could have happened to any of the companies, but it happened to BP. I get it.

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DateThursday, June 3, 2010 at 2:56PM Comment1 Comment
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Monday
May172010

BP Fail

in , AuthorLowcountry Geek

So, I don't know why, but I sort of feel like the country isn't enraged enough by what has happened down in the Gulf with the oil spill and BP.

I was 9 years old when the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred, yet I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the outrage and photo after photo after photo of birds and other oil-caked animals.

Where is all of that today?

Is it because our media is so saturated that we can't stick with a story long enough to actually do it justice, even if that story has to do with day after day of watching thousands of barrels of oil being dumped into the Gulf, destroying our precious resources?

Where is the outrage? Or has the outrage become so cookie-cutter that we don't even recognize it? After all, a Senate hearing aimed at chastising BP and others associated with this disaster really shouldn't look the same as a Senate hearing intended to quiz Major League Baseball about steroid use: But it did!

So what, Ian? So what are you going to do? You're a social media geek, what can you do, Ian?

Well about a week ago I posted to my Facebook status that I wouldn't join any "I hate BP" Facbeook fan pages. I don't like when people make political statements on Facebook, and I honestly don't see what they achieve. People join these fan pages with goofy names and the pages tend to go stagnant, really not accomplishing anything. If you want to tell me how you stand politically, then jot that down in your info section, I'll respect that more.

Instead of joining a fan page, I said I'd simply boycott BP (there are two within 2 miles of my home.)

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DateMonday, May 17, 2010 at 9:41AM Comment9 Comments
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