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A DIRTY TRAIN ADDED YOU AS A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK

Metro Makes a Facebook Page

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority now has its own fancy Facebook page. Change has come!

On this Facebook page, you can do many fun things: You can participate in a photo caption-writing contest or watch “Littering Rabbit,” a badly dubbed kung-fu video of someone in a Dragon Shirt telling you not to litter on the Metro.

WMATA’s page is bizarre — you get the feeling that perhaps somebody’s teen-aged son is running the whole operation. BUT there are some things on there that make it actually helpful: There’s a discussion board that asks Metro users for suggestions, which surprisingly, isn’t just a place for people to bitch about how much Metro sucks.

Become a fan if you can. Or not.


12:58 PM on Tue February 24 2009
By Malaka Gharib
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  1. rmontcal says at 1:13 pm, February 24th, 2009

    If metro could sell beer at the Franconia-Springfield metro station, that’d work out really great for me. Thanks FB friend!

  2. V572625694 says at 1:17 pm, February 24th, 2009

    May it be respecfully requested of our Wonkette Overlords and Ovuladies that they do something to put AN END TO THE WONKABOUT TAINT THAT SPREADS OVER THE WHOLE BLOG ONce you click through a Wonkabout post? The blue’s okay but the font is ugly and hard to read.

    Maybe you could get some tech support and design assistance from the fine, fine Web designers at Drudge or The Politico, ha ha.

  3. rmontcal says at 1:25 pm, February 24th, 2009

    I like the blue; it soothes me. And there is a mini Wonkette banner on the left side of Wonkabout so you can get back quickly if you need to.

  4. qwerty42 says at 1:35 pm, February 24th, 2009

    V572625694: I’m using Firefox and I don’t see anything different about Wonkette after going to Wonkabout. Font for comments at Wonkabout is not the same as the font used at Wonkette, but font for posts seems to be the same. Might be a browser issue.

  5. V572625694 says at 2:06 pm, February 24th, 2009

    qwerty42: Hmmm…I use FFox too, with AdBlock, FoxMarks, etc., but still get the blue and the funky font on “real” Wonkette posts when I click to them using the Next and Back buttons. Plus the comment fonts don’t change for me.

    Just tried IE and it really got weird. Oh well…maybe someday we’ll get to preview our comments before posting and put graphics in the comments again.

    Cuz I pay a lot to use Wonkette and I should get what I want!

  6. unsuckdcmetro says at 2:22 pm, February 24th, 2009
  7. Jukesgrrl says at 4:12 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Anyone in DC who hates the subway should try living for a year in a city that doesn’t have one. That’s a precious resource you have there, people.

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