The Dawn of “Social Anarchy”
A few major media outlets around the world have picked up on recent stories of organized teams of party crashers raiding residential parties in England and trashing homes. Nick ONeill posted a summary this morning on AllFacebook:
A group calling themselves the “Facebook Republican Army” have rampaged through a 16-year-old girl’s house in Sussex according to Sky News. There has been a continued string of parties, which started on Facebook, that have gotten out of control in the U.K. Less than two weeks ago we wrote about a party in London which “ended in chaos after up to 60 hooded youths gatecrashed the event”.
I’d love to know more about the FRA’s purpose (or manifesto, if you want to give them that much credit). Is it just a bunch of angsty British wannabe-anarchists trying to live the Clockwork Orange dream, or are they trying to make an actual point about Facebook and society through the avant-garde medium of property destruction? I’m counting on folks like Nick ONeill and Justin Smith to keep me posted as details unfold.
Metro Boston, my favorite low-cal daily newspaper, reported this morning on the evolution of “social terrorism.” With the rise of the Facebook Republican Army, are we entering a new era of what might be considered “social anarchy?”
(Photo credit: Sky News)
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