Once a bastion for kids in college to stalk and monitor one another, Facebook has grown into a social networking site rivaling Myspace, competing for a similar demographic, and allowing everyone to try to stalk one another.

In decidedly “news” that’s not really news and actually pretty stupid, more than 91,000 Facebook users have signed up to a Facebook group called “On May 15, 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy carrots”.

Maybe I’m not eating enough carrots, but I don’t believe what I’m seeing. More after the jump.

At 2pm, on May 15, 2008, 91,000 Facebook users in the group “On May 15, 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy carrots,” will supposedly “panic buy” as many carrots as they can. The plight of bad eyesight and skin that isn’t orange tinted will soon be remedied! It of course spawned an opposing Facebook group for no apparent reason, “Don’t add to world hunger, don’t panic-buy carrots,” a much, much less popular option.

Obviously, carrot growers are happy about this, you know… when informed of its existence.

David Martin, vice-chairman of the British Carrot Growers’ Association, is excited by the idea. “It’s an extraordinary proposition, purchasers can be assured they’ll have a fine product in the middle of May - as long as they buy British carrots. Bring it on! Let’s try and reach a million members!”

Other spin-off groups includes one with around a 1000 members who have thought of philanthropist plans for the purchased carrots.

Yikes.

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