By the title of this blog you may think I am talking about people who spend so much time on Facebook that they become like zombies, Pale skin, unable to communicate in person except by grunts, but despite this rather patronising geek stereotype I am talking about the instances of Zombie culture on the worlds favourite social networking site.
When I first joined I was invited to install the VAMPIRES application, where, Zombies Vampires and Werewolves attacked each other on a daily basis. A simple concept, everyone else seemed to have it, and who could resist attacking a Catholic Schoolgirl vampire?
Recently I have been playing two of the Mindjolt applications games. Zombie Hell, and my personal favourite, Zombie Kitten. Zombie Hell involves protecting your house and ten inhabitants from waves of zombies by collecting cash, buying weapons and attacking the zombies. It reminds me of the old game SYNDICATE, or as much as a flash game can. Zombie Kitten fits my previous rules for a good game and would look familiar to anyone who played the 80’s Dr Who vs Daleks game.
But there is more to Zombies on Facebook than the odd application alone. After all the Zombie talk on Dice of Doom and replays of Simpson Halloween episodes I decided to do search for Zombies on Facebook. A quick search will show more than 30 Applications, over 500 events, 40 pages and over 500 groups.
The groups particularly interested me, titles such as “Real friends kill friends who become zombies.”, “All You People Who Don’t Believe In Zombies… you’ll be dead first”, and “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ZOMBIES”, certainly tweek the interest of anyone who watched too much Twilight Zone as a youth.
Living in the Hunter Valley though I looked straight away at Australian Zombie Outbreak Defence, Newcastle and Hunter Region. This band of 30 brothers is officially classed as a Volunteer organization by facebook and discusses such important matters as possible outbreaks and bases of defence. Personally I think Christchurch cathedral is the best place to be in Newcastle, or failing that, I will just drive to a mine site out of town, away from food sources and with lots of explosives at hand.
In short, if you are worried about the Zombie apocalypse, Facebook could be the place for you to prepare. And people say the internet is a waste of time.. PPfftt, First to be brain food come the undead rising.
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