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The Geography of Cranston's Facebook Pages
Dominating Cranston’s Facebook landscape are the brambles of the groups from Cranston West and Cranston East. Alumni from various years make up the bulk of the vegetation, but scattered throughout are various others such as Cranston West Hockey, the ironic Welcome to the Ghetto Cranston East, Cranston West Owns Planet Fitness, and Screw You! I was/am in the Cranston East Choir.
Opening up beyond the Tangles are the Foothills of Light Sports, both Real and Imagined. This is where you find Cranston Ping Pong League, Cranston Boats, Cranston Kickball, and Wicked Cool Lifeguards at the Y. Nestled in the valleys are the groups You Know You Live in Cranston When… and Cranston Is Not One of the Worst Places to Live in America. A small mesa sits nearby sporting Residents of Cranston, RI, which currently has a population of two – almost half as many as the Cranston Style group before it was decimated by the malady known as Purposeful Group Removal Syndrome.
On the fringes of These Wild Places of Facebook is Everyone Loves Cranston, a group that actually sits just beyond Cranston’s virtual borders. Everyone Loves Cranston is a Facebook homage to a Canadian named Ryan Cranston. On a billboard Outside of Town is the group Find the Tallest Structure in Cranston, RI, a group that hopefully isn’t looking for somebody’s hair.
Not too far from The Most Undefined Quadrangles of Hazy Coordinates is Cranston Paranormal Research, whose web site reads “Welcome to our organization. We have been ghost hunting for a few years now. Our organization is Cranston’s finest. We would like to help our local, and not so local residents with any type of paranormal type situation. We do ask that you email us at jfdwer@ccri.edu for any questions. We are a fairly new organization or investigations are limited for now. Thank you – CPS.”
The Picture is “Cranston Is Not One of the Worst Places to Live in America” as a graph using Sala’s graphing applet.
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Josh,
I also ran Cranston through the Facebook search when I joined and found some of those same groups. I did miss the paranormal group and the Big Hair one though.
— Rachel McNally · Nov 14, 10:11 AM · #