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Old 27-10-2010, 00:44
neel
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Last year some clever types with a background in marketing made a facebook group and got a classic song to number 1, to make a point about how dull the domination of The X factor had made the festive top 40.

This was good. Once, however, the point has been made, and made well. Simon Cowell got a kick up the arse, RATM helped raise some money for homless charities and all was well with the world.

Getting "surfing bird", your mates bands song, or 45 seconds of silence isn't big, funny or clever. Its been done, time to move on.

Similarly, it is a sad reflection on our society, that with all the terrible things in the world, people with time on their hands don't use the power of the internet and social networking to look at these issues but to start some dull cliched campaign to get a rubbish song to number 1 in a chart which probably hasn't been relevant for about 10 years.

In conclusion, christmas number 1 face book groups = rubbish.
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Old 27-10-2010, 09:29
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It could be argued that with all the bad things that are happening in the world today as you put it all you have to moan about is people starting pointless facebook campaigns

would you not be better putting your energies into someting more worthwile
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Old 27-10-2010, 09:53
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I say we get a christmas song to number 1, much more fitting.
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Old 27-10-2010, 10:56
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It could be argued that with all the bad things that are happening in the world today as you put it all you have to moan about is people starting pointless facebook campaigns

would you not be better putting your energies into someting more worthwile
And I'm assuming all your posts are pertinent to solving the world's problems?

I at the campaigns and people putting so much importance on the charts.... the campaigns are just as induced and skewed as the X-Factor sales.
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Old 27-10-2010, 11:23
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Agreed.
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Old 27-10-2010, 12:37
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It could be argued that with all the bad things that are happening in the world today as you put it all you have to moan about is people starting pointless facebook campaigns

would you not be better putting your energies into someting more worthwile
This would be a good point, if starting a facebook campaign and posting a thread on an internet forum were comparible in terms of effort and time, however, they are not.

Also, i'm not running about other internet forums posting threads saying "hey guys, go and post in my thread on DS's music forum moaning about facebook groups, LOLZ".

Where as the various "facebook activists" are.

So yes, you could argue that point, but it would be a rubbish agument. so I wouldn't bother.
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Old 27-10-2010, 15:43
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It was bound to happen. Everyone wants to be the person who "stated the Facebook group which got xxxxxx to number 1 over Cher Lloyd".

There's too many campaigns for it to work this time.
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Old 28-10-2010, 14:17
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It was bound to happen. Everyone wants to be the person who "stated the Facebook group which got xxxxxx to number 1 over Cher Lloyd".

There's too many campaigns for it to work this time.
Agreed, RATM was a one off, it worked, point made, move on !
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Old 01-11-2010, 14:48
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I don't even think X Factor will get this year's Xmas #1; 10 contestants remain and there are only six weeks left till the week of the Christmas chart. Unless X Factor plans otherwise, it'll miss the Xmas #1 altogether.
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Old 01-11-2010, 14:59
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I don't even think X Factor will get this year's Xmas #1; 10 contestants remain and there are only six weeks left till the week of the Christmas chart. Unless X Factor plans otherwise, it'll miss the Xmas #1 altogether.
They probably have a mass cull, double evictions & all that.

Actually, mass cull?, no there's an idea........
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Old 01-11-2010, 16:31
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Peter Gabriel for Christmas number 1 anyone haha only kidding. I agree with the amount of facebooks campaigns is just too much. Although if someone were to start a Peter Gabriel campaign I wouldn't mind
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