why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

"Sprinkle it. Blap it. Marinate it.
Flamboast it, ooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo."

- E-40

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/530161_450356208337696_1871730500_n.jpg

Let the floodgates open!

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/603521_4535218018453_1717242573_n.jpg

Ha, okay, I like that, it's a smart response. Still, image macros, eh.

I agree with a lot of the sentiments on these (not the bubble one, though), I just feel like a lot of the people that post these are basically preaching to the (atheistic) choir.

i agree with ron popeil

I mean, if you don't, you're a Republican.

Yeah there is almost literally no one in my large friends group on FB who would not agree with the shit they post but they all still feel the need to fucking post "clever" science memes/feminism memes/george takei lulz. I need to write a damn greasemonkey script or something, it is getting out of control.

There was a month or so when it seemed like all my friends were liking images on some page called Being Liberal - it drives me nuts that I can't hide the 'liked some bullshit on someone's page' stuff.

And it's not that I disagreed so much as it was just smug and annoying and unnecessary

Yeah i get stuff from that page, from various athiest and humanist pages, from "fuckyeah science!" or some such thing and... fucking takei.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/429332_10150613661536275_478447451_n.jpg

THINGS

You can hide that stuff for individual users, but sometimes Facebook will just ignore that you asked it to.

NEW

POLIO

FREEDOM
PEO

COMMIE

Yeah I dont want to hide people wholesale, but i dont think theres any way for FB to know to say, I dunno, "hide anything reposted from george effing takei" is there? Like an anti-RT option would be MAGNIFICENT but there is no fucking way FB will implement it, it'd ruin their monetisation completely I assume - RT shit is what they thrive on.

"Being Liberal" page is full of lols tbh

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/561801_10151017736796275_1394518890_n.jpg

Hahah oh god.

For a second I thought that was saying he's 42 and I was like "FUCK I AM NOT AS OLD AS CLINTON WTF"

tearful sniffles to u mr pwesident

uh...what was the spirit of the 90's again? i'm afraid to ask.

zima

something to do with cigars if i remember correctly...

answer is probably somewhere in What Was the Food of the 90s?

probably about time to do that for the 00s but I fear what might result.

in my day we drank bartles & james and we LIKED it!

if I never see a fuzzy navel again it will be too soon

xp oh gosh thanks for mentioning that scott, now a certain aerosmith bootleg makes more sense.

why are they called macros btw

i thought maybe you could go to the home page of these viral macros and block them individually - it would be time-consuming but good for the fb friends who post tons of shit from a few of the same places - but there is no block option on them!

black the "friends"

*block

from know your meme:

The term “image macro” was first coined in Something Awful[2] in 2004. In the forums, users could summon a number of default image macros using simple commands like [img – macro], for example, timelines, “Aces!” and “Captain Obvious to the Rescue!” images. The name is derived from the computer scientific definition of a macro: a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined procedure. The earliest definition of an image macro was submitted by SomethingAwful forum user Eclipse on February 12th, 2004.

In 2005, the term “image macro” spread across a number of other forums and imageboards, most notably on 4chan where the medium of image macros took on a life of its own. The popularity of image macros in the anonymous community culminated with the birth of LOLcats circa June 2006. While the scope of the term was initially limited to describing images captioned in bold Impact font with white letters and a black outline, its working definition eventually expanded to describe images with superimposed text.

image macros are a ref to the fact it's a recorded or semi-automated process, going back to key macros in software

So if you wanted to make a million funny-text pics you have a macro to just plug in text

Good old software with "record macro" menu item

yeah imo these facebook meme images (and i guess lolcats and stuff) are a little bit removed from the original meaning of "image macro"—macro originally meaning a stock response, like the reaction images you see on SA or 4chan. obv the definition has expanded though

more of a macro sense now

xps yeah i've blocked dumb ppl who do this, but i have a cousin+aunt+uncle who are really lovely ppl i would like to keep up with... but they all post this stuff and then repost each others stuff, it's just this horrible endless loop.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/226154_10151106882092988_1139547471_n.jpg

if by "unsuccessful" you mean fabulously wealthy...

lol at say they keep a journal but really dont

"Say they keep a journal but really don't"

I HAVE BEEN EXPOSED

Seriously though - weird point to emphasize.

damnit xp

I read every day and watch TV every day, so where does that leave me?

lol. rich people NEVER fear change.

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I'm guilty of everything being criticized in this thread (probably -- I haven't actually read the thread), sorry all.

"Say they keep a journal but really don't" makes this sound more and more like some personal ax-grinding list to stick it to those who have snubbed its author (who is not, btw, successful).