Dear Facebook, Please Make Me a Supermodel

Public event listings on Facebook have been used to influence politics and organize protests. But now events organized through Facebook–and their chaotic aftermath–may just lead to…a modeling contract?

Two weeks ago, British teen Georgina Hobday posted a Facebook event to announce her birthday party, one worthy of MTV’s reality series “My Super Sweet Sixteen” (where spoiled rich teens throw lavish themed tantrums to celebrate their coming-of-age, often with ponies and Range Rovers). She invited 100 guests online, but kept the event public. I would have immediately regretted that decision.

What ensued was over 400 gatecrashers stampeding Hobday’s family mansion in Brighton, U.K. A gang dubbing itself the “Facebook Republican Army,” which scours the Internet and Facebook for parties to crash, trampled the lawn, burnt carpets and smashed anything breakable in sight.

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