As you may have seen on our MTV homepage, Amanda and I absolutely love getting together and making up satiric songs as “Butch-Cassia and the Amandance Kid” to post on YouTube. We like to poke fun at timely trends and happenings — such as the MySpace and Facebook malady that has consumed us all.

These so-called social networking sites have become, for most, a tool of vanity with which we put on display our best and prettiest selves. Meeting new people and making friends are no longer motives behind creating one of these pages. The good intentions behind Facebook and MySpace have been replaced with photo-tagging frenzies and bumper-sticker madness.

Needless to say, I’m not criminalizing the millions of social networking members, myself included (although I was forced into it by Amanda, who also wrote my lovely “About Me” section). I’m simply trying to say that the “Look at Me Generation” (as Newsweek calls us) needs to step away from the mirror and take a look out the window. There is, contrary to popular belief, an entire world out there waiting for us to take notice and, more importantly, take action. A world that is heating up, crying out, and falling apart with every bomb that is dropped.