You may have seen some of the recent update statuses lately and noticed many following a trend.

Last week we had females posting colours. Then young males posting numbers. Then the females started updating their statuses with positions (positions of their favoured hair style, don’t get so excited.)

Tonight it appears to be The Fine.

Now, the funny thing about the colours updates was this:

No one was 100% sure why they were doing this update. Some girls were posting their underwear colour up on their status feed to help breast cancer awareness. Others believed it was just a plan to confuse the men-folk.

You’d think people would find a better way to raise cancer awareness right? Oh well, in the end everyone had a good giggle.

The positions status updates were about hair, yes. If you liked tying your hair up, your status was “on top”. If you let it hang down, you said “side by side”.

Now, the newest trend is called the fine. The premise is simple. Well actually, when we checked it out it seemed like more effort than usual for a simple social networking trend.

You read through a list of acts or “crimes”. Each “crime” has a monetary value attributed to it. The list is as follows :

Smoked pot — £10

Did acid — £5

Ever had sex at church — £25

Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you — £40

Had sex with someone on Facebook — £25

Had sex for money — £100

Ever had sex with a Puerto Rican — £20

Vandalized something — £20

Had sex on your parents’ bed — £10

Beat up someone — £20

Been jumped — £10

Cross dressed — £10

Given money to stripper — £25

Been in love with a stripper — £20

Kissed someone who’s name you didn’t know — £0.10

Hit on some one of the same sex while at work — £15

Ever drive and drank — £20

Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk — £50

Used toys while having sex — £30

Got drunk, passed out and don’t remember the night before — £20

Went skinny dipping — £5

Had sex in a pool — £20

Kissed someone of the same sex — £10

Had sex with someone of the same sex — £20

Done oral — £5

Enjoyed giving oral — £5

Got oral — £5

Done / got oral in a car while it was moving — £25

Stole something — £10

Had sex with someone in jail — £25

Made a nasty home video — £15

Had a threesome — £50

Had sex in the wild — £20

Been in the same room while someone was having sex — £25

Stole something worth over more than a hundred pounds — £20

Had sex with someone 10 years older — £20

Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 — £25

Been in love with two people or more at the same time– £50

Said you love someone but didn’t mean it — £25

Went streaking — £5

Went streaking in broad daylight — £15

Been arrested — £5

Spent time in jail — £15

Peed in the pool — £0.50

Played spin the bottle — £5

Done something you regret — £20

Had sex with your best friend — £20

Had sex with someone you work with whilst at work — £25

Had anal sex — £80

Lied to your mate — £5

Lied to your mate about the sex being good — £25

…More power to you if you actually had the time/patience to read that list. We didn’t.

Some people really hate these social networking trends. Someone started a group to jokingly give out about the colours trend entitled “Women, stop posting colours as your statuses and get back in the kitchen”.

Now it appears to have started as a joke. As with everything on the web some folk took it seriously and hijacked it with some serious female bashing.

When i asked two ladies their thoughts on the group, their responses were:

“Its just a joke. Not a big deal”

and

“Meh. Not worth the time to bitch about. Its a stupid joke, as stupid as the status things”.

Turns out these women are disagreed with over at Boards.ie.

In this thread , the argument has been ongoing for 155 posts so far. Some of the responses, actually, a lot of them, are crazy.

Does making or joining such a group make you a woman hater?

Does laughing at a dead baby joke, a rape joke, a racist joke,a sexuality joke or a gender stereotype joke make you a murdering bigoted rapist?

Are the women that laugh along with men just as bad, a new type of bad or just having a laugh?

I don’t think so. Many don’t think so. Some groups do.

I for one don’t think the statuses are a big deal, nor do i feel the group is some ground breaking evil threat to humanity.

Just seems Facebook is getting a bit clogged with these silly things.

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Note:

The above post was made to clue in the still clueless masses out there about the status trends recently happening on Facebook.

Neither the author, nor this site hate women or wish anything bad towards them as a gender. We like women. We have female friends. We believe in freedom for womankind and wish them well in their endeavours. Please don’t hurt us…*