In the grand and illustrious history of website parodies, the new Crackbook certainly stands out as the most - oh, I don't know - skanky? You can thank Internet spoofing pro David McCandless for the site, which bills itself as "an addictive social utility that makes you feel that you're connecting with people when actually you're just not" and aims mainly to highlight how addictive and trivial Facebook can be. While the whole thing is primarily a study in jokes taken too far, parts of it are funny as hell.
You can't actually join, but Crackbook does allow prospective CrackBookWhores to take a tour of the social networking train wreck and view Mercutio Ritz's profile, news feed, and friend list. Mercutio, we find out, is a "Judaeo-Agnostic-Buddhist-Sufi-Nazi consensual non-monogamist" looking for meaning with 95,385 pictures of himself, four STDs (three of them treatable!), and two grams of coke. He's got 95,884 pending friend requests, "17 old notifications [he] can't be arsed to clear," and one drug cocktail request, plus he belongs to 6 groups, including "if you don't like the band I like then you are gay at everythin" and "There's A War On In Iraq But I'm Going To Invest Energy In Joining Semi-Ironic Groups Bitching About Those Who Can't Use Apostrophe's Correctly Woo." The Poll of the Day? "Who likes cheese?!"
Suffice to say that by the end of your tour, you'll get the freaking point. Especially when you discover that, in place of the Find Your Friends feature, there's this:
"Find Your Real Friends: To find people you know who are not using Crackbook, pick up the phone and give them a ring."
