dont cry about it
― gabb 'bag (s1ocki), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
im going to make a private 77 thred about how im ;_;
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
OK I never read that clothesline article before now. Its an Onion piece someone misplaced, right?
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
me neither. fuck a dryer imo
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
And I thought the "hey look, hipsters all wear chunky black framed glasses! Even when they DONT NEED TO!" wank in last weeks Age was bad enough.
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
EXCELLENT message/username combination, daavid.
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
And in other fake trends, a "Facebook Exodus"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?em
The article itself admits that the numbers don't back this up. How do they feel comfortable reporting this?
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
heffernan does not report, she babbles nonsense about stuff she's heard from her friends and family.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah doesn't she have her own personal fact checker on staff? amazing she's still employed
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
She obviously wants it to be true.
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
huh, i had always figured her for being a good bit older than 40. i guess she's just dumb.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
The exodus is not evident from the site’s overall numbers.
― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
sentences like that are how nazi germany started basically
― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
a small but noticeable group are fleeing
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Another thought the scene had turned desperate.Another thought the scene had turned desperate.Another thought the scene had turned desperate.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she needs a hug.
― Houston (Euler), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Virginia Heffernan thinks the scene has turned desperate
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ILXodus
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Mr. Que's posts had turned desperate.
don't they know about "hide posts" functionz
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Another friend, who didn’t want his name used, found that Facebook undermined his whole notion of online friendship.
― ian, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously "web service with 150 million users has a few malcontents" is in actual fact Not Fit To Print
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
guys she does this pretty much every week.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heffernan
Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://2009.sxsw.com/files/u13/VirginiaHeffernan.jpg
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
dumb AND cute!
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd check her facts.
― scott seward, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Que is thinking of Alessandra Stanley, isn't he?
I don't know if this qualifies as bogus-trend "reporting" cause it was in Heffernan's column in the magazine, which is very much not "reported."
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes. Both have written about TV for the Times.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
which also BTW is way less cringy than I'd ever have imagined when it started! I think I've actually enjoyed a few weeks
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
huh, i had always figured her for being a good bit older than 40.
I think it must be the name. I first read her in Slate, so she didn't seem terribly old.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
CORRECTION
A post on Monday afternoon incorrectly named Virginia Heffernan as having her own personal fact checker on the New York Times. It is Alessandra Stanley who was the fact-checker, not Heffernan.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
who has
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
- Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.- It is Alessandra Stanley who was the fact-checker, not Heffernan.
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
so confused
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
It doesn't surprise me too much that people in Heffernan's age cohort have mixed feelings about Facebook. They're a group that definitely has a big Facebook presence (as opposed to the generation above them), but they've only really joined the site within the last year or two, and the notion of living online is not as second-nature to them as it is to their Gen Y counterparts. Of course, Heffernan's article never considers this.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i would totally agree with that
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend Alex joined four years ago at the suggestion of “the coolest guy on the planet,” she told me in an e-mail message. For a while, they cultivated a cool-planet online gang. But then Scrabulous was shut down, someone told her she was too old for Facebook, her teenage stepson seemed to be losing his life to it and she found the whole site crawling with mercenaries trying to sell books and movies. “If I am going to waste my time on the Internet,” she concluded, “it will be playing in online backgammon tournaments.”
Blech
― Alex in SF, Monday, 31 August 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
haha dude, man, is there something specific in that you're calling our attention to, or is it just the noise?
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Another thought the scene had turned desperate.
This ain't a scene it's a login.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Just the whole thing. How could someone write a paragraph like that and not think "I am the world's biggest douchebag"?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
because of writing declarative sentences about somebody else?
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
don't get me wrong, I prefer serial commas too, but it's a newspaper, whatchagonnado
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
For a while, they cultivated a cool-planet online gang.
this is crucial
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Well he was "the coolest guy on the planet" according to her friend Alex's email message.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
how DARE the INTERNET try to sell us (shudder) BOOKS AND MOVIES~!!!!!@!?????!!!
― ian, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I mean I can get finding the piece thin or useless, but that paragraph is just relaying someone's story as told to the writer, so ... eh?
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i agree with you though Alex--paragraphs like that, what can you say about them except? Blech. I mean, it's just horrible journalism. Or should I say "journalism." It's like third rate blog writing.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Que it's a column
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link