"more of an annoying thing than a fad, but it's another way for luddites to be all smug about how much they "don't need" technology. (nothing against luddites, just don't like the smugness. i don't "need" facebook either and i'm not impressed that you're not on it.)"
Two questions arise:
1) How do you know they're 'bragging'?
2) Isn't it possibly just a tad presumptuous to assume they give a rat's tossbag whether or not they are impressing you?
― Fred Nerk, Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:58 (fourteen years ago) link
new to this meme?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 etc. etc.
― fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 November 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
(yes they are almost definitely bragging)
― fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 November 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I met a 20 year old girl who said she wasn't on Facebook and I think she thought it was a virtue, but it wasn't annoying or very braggy. People mention it in conversation. I guess it seems a more pertinent comment than the I-don't-have-a-tv comment, because people have grown up with tv usually and know what it is, but Facebook seems more of a trend, like, "I haven't tried it yet, this is why." Some people blurt things out. This was a very talkative girl.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I deleted my FB account. Not so much because I want to appear above it, more that I simply don't have time anymore and was only using it for Lex/Scrabble. I do miss it, but I won't go back.
Has anyone mentioned chick lit? Hate the term.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Chiclet?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/425659704_7a39e32a3e.jpg?v=0
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
until a few months ago, if Facebook came up in conversation, I might have mentioned that I didn't have an account because a few years ago I went and killed all my social networking accounts due to privacy concerns. I finally buckled and signed up for it. I was wrong about it... the whole "wall" function, and the ability to read it on my cell phone, makes it something new entirely. Something that sucks.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think "not needing" technology has anything to do with the vast majority of people who aren't into Facebook.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i deleted FB because it was making me hate a lot of mostly nice folks who were acting like fucktards and saying smug awful things. it was like 15% fun max.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ilx is like 95% fun
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
194. Beards. And it sucks, because I wear a beard. I have had a beard for most of this decade, and I feel naked and weird every time I try to shave it.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:43 AM (Yesterday)
i shaved my beard for the first time in four years. and it was a big big big mistake.
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
oh this reminds me that I need to shave soon
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
farts
fags
― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"monetize" "incentivize" etc
― fit and working again, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
man you need to cleanse your mind or something
xp yeah you too
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"monetize" only annoys me when coming from people who think they will. Pointing out things that cannot be monetized is the new black, imo.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and it's really, really black.
i deleted most of my FB apps and "fan" statuses. i was sick of the spam and also had privacy concerns. but facebook still keeps finding ways to make itself worse.
― señor wig day (get bent), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Facebook itself is fairly safe, as near as I can tell. Dig into your settings, set your defaults to nothing, go "black" as they say on FB (meaning not even your name can be clicked), and you're pretty secure. FB apps are another story entirely. I don't use any anymore. No quizzes, no games, none of that shit. It's not the data mining that bugs me, it's the lack of control I have over it. Fuck all of that until they fix it.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Zombies.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
683. Pirates/Talk Like a Pirate Day (or was this more 2008 than 2009)
― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, for me that pirate/ninja shit was played out years ago. This year it's zombie kitsch I am sick of. I'll probably still play Left 4 Dead 2 and rent Zombieland when it comes out, but I am so god damn sick of zombies.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
me too, although i watched the argento cut of dawn of the dead on halloween.
― señor wig day (get bent), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
zombies are definitely the new pirates
― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
People who hug everyone they meet and are weird if you are reluctant about hugging them. I hug family members, but I don't see why everyone fucking hugs everyone. What happen to a good handshake?
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
this is what happened
― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
re: zombies
Y’all should just follow my example and not socialize with people so much and stay in and stick to things that are classic like zombie movies. Pirates and ninjas (man, weird that there wasn’t a ninja cinematic revival, given how tied together those things were as trends) come and go, but zombies are all-time. So long as you don’t hang out with a bunch of fuckwits who are always “I got this great myspace flyer for a shamble."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
bye kingfish ;_;
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.daemonsmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ninja-assassin-337x500.jpg
― señor wig day (get bent), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.30rockonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/whodatninga.jpg
― señor wig day (get bent), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll put this on the facebook thread too, but it's what I was talking about re:facebook apps.
http://consumerist.com/5400720/mafia-wars-ceo-brags-about-scamming-users-from-day-one
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
744. all things 2012 doomsday related, despite the fact that i know ive got 3 more fucking years to hate this ahead of me
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm just looking forward to the parties.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
looking forward to being vindicated or dead
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
looking forward to pissing in some skulls
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
767. the band Skullpisser
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this weekend i mean. plans for 2012 are still up in the air.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
183. that crap you like, coming back in style
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:50 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
2) plaids
― Lamp, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
x at least 80
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
So long as you don’t hang out with a bunch of fuckwits who are always “I got this great myspace flyer for a shamble."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:33 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
is that what it is? it is a shamble? there was one at the supermarket
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"Shambles" are the zombie version of flashmobs.
― HOOS University (kingkongvsgodzilla), Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I would be so fucking pissed if one were to happen at my Safeway.
― HOOS University (kingkongvsgodzilla), Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
all things 2012 doomsday related, despite the fact that i know ive got 3 more fucking years to hate this ahead of me
OTMiest thing on the thread
― Herman G. Neuname is the first European president (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Movember.
http://www.movember.com/
I *know* it's for charity, but suffering christ.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 November 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i still cant get behind dumb things when they are "for charity." people can just give the money to charity without any showoffy biz imo
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
excuses 4 moustaches r stupid, every1 just have moustaches plz unless u r an indie girl r something maybe
― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp - this is the first I have heard of this.
― sarahel, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
im not real torn up about it or anything but i dont suffer ppl with clearly ironic moustaches 100% gladly
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
thats a sep. issue though
xactly, own it r piss off imo
― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link