iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

here is a depressing truth: gravity

I like misandry

it was good, as a joke, but jokes dont last (5000 likes)

idk I think militant misandry is no joke and I approve 100%

i dont thats like a real thing actually

twitter?! i hardly know 'er!!!!!

moscaddie is funny

naaw

sry you are outvoted, motion passes

this is so unfair

tho if we want to get deeper into my feelings on the topic

an interesting cycle on twitter is like someone is good at twitter, gets popular, becomes bad at twitter due to the forces exerted by twitter popularity

― lag∞n, Friday, February 27, 2015 11:58 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

may you never become popular

aw

like i unfollowed netw3rk who i really used to think was just wonderful

I don't unfollow, I just send a dm saying "it's time" and they remove their twitter acct

i unfollowed netwerk like yesterday

rip

I don't unfollow, I just send a dm saying "it's time" and they remove their twitter acct

― mh, Friday, February 27, 2015 4:41 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p good system tbh

shrill cosby has always been bad tho

like i unfollowed netw3rk who i really used to think was just wonderful

― lag∞n, Friday, February 27, 2015 4:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

Did he go to shit? :(

Prolly saved all his good shit for grantland

really need to have it out w/u which richard nixon tweeter is best

haha

Prolly saved all his good shit for grantland

― 龜, Friday, February 27, 2015 4:52 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his writing for grantland is... so bad tho, bringing up the whole concept of twitter as a form which is p interesting to me but maybe is horrible to others?

https://gotrazy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/kakao3.jpg?w=764

I thought his home alone jigsaw piece was pretty good xp

yeah i liked that too tho even there with a compelling concept addressing a subject matter dear to my heart (the saw movies) u can see how he benefits from a format that demands pithiness

like so many very hilarious tweeters when writing longer are revealed to be guys who think ironic formality and goofy words (there was an ilx thread that addressed this sort of humor maybe? that i cant find) are really good

(there was an ilx thread that addressed this sort of humor maybe? that i cant find)

Is this the thread you're thinking of?

Origins of the faux-naif bloggy voice?

no it was called like "that thing when guys go *half cocks elbow* 'hello sir'" or that sentiment is expressed within or something, idk i tried searching for it, im a fan of faux-naif bloggy voice obvs lol

didn't know you were into saw *updates notes*

subsequently im pretty much an internet hermit wrt social media generally (save a LinkedIn that is at least a yr out of date by last accounting) so my op may not hold much water here

hey how is this workin out if you don't mind my asking? I have some anxiety over this stuff, I probably can't ever hermit out completely because FB's pretty valuable when I'm away from home a lot & other social media stuff is part of my work, but I'm curious, because I have been thinking of social media time as this weird SOMA state or something, not gratifying but not irritating enough to spend less time on

i just unhid everyone tonight for some reason! well, not everyone...

it's an experiment in terror.

i spend the majority of my free/bored at work internet time on one facebook group now and it's kinda everything i ever wanted from interactive internet. don't have to bug my regular facebook friends or people here half as much with pictures of records and record talk. you're welcome! i ignore regular facebook pretty good. but some of my best real life pals are on there so it's worth it for that.

just went on fb for the first time in like a month and so much stuff is going on like ppl getting married and parents retiring and ilx0rs/their babies being cuet

kinda feel like there is a disconnect and i am on the wrong side (which isn't necessarily because i'm old, although that helps). in days of yore it was maybe ppls' duty to let their friends know what was going on? and now it's ppls' duty to monitor their friends' feeds?

i dunno -- i am ever-increasingly isolated in general, but i'd prefer friends communicated with me directly via any number of means rather than assuming that i follow their internet trails

fb is bizarre now--I used to get status updates from friends in my feed, but now all I see are outrage links

outrageous

like Jem and the Holograms

showtime (platform) synergy

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2015/05/19/an_interview_with_evan_arnold_who_played_leonard_in_the_final_episode_of/leonard_mad_men.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png

Cheer up, Leonard. Forty years from now, the fridge door will never close. Every minute of every hour of every day, you'll get reminders of how wonderful everyone's life out there is. Unless you unplug the fridge altogether, which is easier said than done.

https://www.facebook.com/ShutUpImStillTalking/photos_stream

100% essential reading imo, especially if you work in the content mines

https://medium.com/message/god-tier-facebook-moms-run-the-meme-game-1e56ef0d31ec

my exposure to post-memes has been so marginal the the post-post-memes registered around the same time

But Foul Bachelor Frog and Socially Awkward Penguin are presented as first-person characters for for the reader to identify with. FBF is decidedly male (he’s constantly told to “blast it with piss”)

Some good observations in there, could maybe take a few more steps -- the spiritual ancestors being funny t-shirts and posters (and coozies, and bumper stickers, and...) is right on, but i would also have to add funny email forwards/signature quotes. Those probably pre-hashed all of the punchlines and sentiments of these things ages ago; in turn they're descended from chain letters and especially newspaper columns. It would be interesting to get a little more precise (as they try to do with the straight white male nerd type) w/r/t the users and uses of those forms of communication.

The concluding hypothesis - that these things are popular because they are inoffensive and easily shared with a friends-family-coworkers set like Facebook - could thus get a bit more grounded. People in different places in their life use Facebook in different ways. My aunt, who shares the most of these kind of things of anyone I know, is linked up on Facebook primarily to other family members and her strong local community of other 75+-year-olds. She particularly likes to share things about libraries and librarians, since she's spent some time as a librarian, etc. I suspect that a 40-year-old desk worker's social network is different, and the shared sentiments too, even though the form of Ye Olde Cartoon Shirt/Maxine Cartoon appears the same. Lumping all these together kind of limits the analysis, though I do get that the article is more of a 'first step' in articulating the lines between these and other memes. That said, I don't see much sense in calling them "post-memes" - they seem pretty memetic to me and in the long run of history, it's more likely we'll see the 4chan type memes as an obscure early form of the type before it became popularized.

a friend tells me that in the US people are being offered the chance to x-fer money via FB chat !?

is that for real ?

(said friend falls for all sorts of wind-ups ..)

it's real

bloody hell.

there is no way i would ever trust FB with that information.

I haven't signed up but I'd imagine they use a third-party payment processor

I have ignored it despite the fact I apparently know the project lead? idk hope it's doing well

i've used it, its fine

idk

not a third party processer actually afaict, no option to link to paypal or anything

you can also do this through gmail/gchat iirc?