“I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store and you stand in front of the lunch section too long, you start to get pissed off at turkeys. You see, like, turkey ham, turkey pastrami, turkey bologna… Somebody needs to tell the turkeys, “Man, just be yourself!””

That’s right, I just opened a post with Mitch Hedberg. And I’ll tell you why. Today I was reading about the official launch of Facebook’s @Mentions, and the quote immediately came to mind. In fact, I’ve thought of the same joke several times over the past couple of years as Facebook has (shamelessly?) scrambled to hijack some of Twitter’s monumental success. It’s not like Facebook is desperate for users. They’ve long been one of the front-runners in the social platform marathon, but their repeated attempts to encompass the essence of Twitter have always felt like the bitter behavior of the cool guy who got turned down for a date for the very first time. (more…)