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

"Be yourself! Be yourself! Do whatever you like! Show up for work! Pay your bills! Do whatever the fuck you like!"

Like, what if I want to not show up for work and not pay my bills?

http://iambeggingmymothernottoreadthisblog.com/2013/06/24/twelve-habits-of-happy-healthy-people-who-dont-give-a-shit-about-your-inner-peace/

― cardamon, Saturday, June 29, 2013 6:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh this is almost as annoying as the posts it is lampooning

too many misleading and disingenuous comparisons to unpack here:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5696/bj88.jpg

you forgot "bullshit"

wanted to be nice, guy who made that obv worked vewwy hawwd on it

fwiw the oft cited kleck study is pretty well debunked here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#Self-protection

Kleck's figures apparently showed that guns were used many times more often for self-defense in burglaries than there were reported incidents of burglaries of premises whose occupants were awake and armed with firearms

This thread will be a year old (and probably hit ten thousand posts) this month. Can't really believe there was a time when it wasn't part of my ILX life.

<3 happy birthday

These things have just exploded in that time, as far as my newsfeed goes

yeah it's kinda funny to think back that FB at one time wasn't a place where you merely splattered memes all over your Timeline every day. hell even the "Like" feature didn't come around until 2009. I remember the early days where you'd put up a status and that was about it. were you able to comment on people's statuses originally? I joined in 2006 but didn't use it much until 2008.

I realize now how silly it is to say "the early days" about a website that's less than 10 years old

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/CD93BE1F-D591-49B2-BCC5-D3337172CBDD-20783-00000D2EF67A3095_zpsc79bd76f.jpg

don't waste it being sad
RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

I like the way they formatted that to make it look like some Benjamin Franklin shit. By the way, Benjamin Franklin actually DID write lots of life advice (see his autobiography) and it's generally pretty kick-ass. If people restricted their FB inspiration rectangles to B-Frank quotes we wouldn't be having this thread.

yeah it's kinda funny to think back that FB at one time wasn't a place where you merely splattered memes all over your Timeline every day.

For what it's worth, I never see anything like this stuff on my feed. I think FB looks very different depending on your age. 40-year-olds don't meme, as far as I can tell.

well, my page doesn't look like that so much anymore because you can set settings by individual, so most of the people who used to put those shitty eCards up every day, I either unfollowed or limited to just status updates showing in my feed.

such a great feature.

all my friends are dead

Neanderthal, you can't unfollow or limit the updates! We need them for this thread.

Life'S too ShoRt

the "sadness is a waste of time" advice reminded me of this.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/files/2012/04/brave-new-world.jpg

Most of the stuff like this that I see is from my aunt, who is right around 80, and whom I couldn't bear to put on block. Presumably lots of people that I've long since switched to "only show important posts" are clicking share on shit like this all the time.

Life's too $hort and the earth is your impala and whatever you want is the fly way to make money

positiveoutlookblogs.com

has anybody else had their Wall splattered with people posting shit like this:

Actor given to me by - Danny DeVito

Movie I loved: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Movie I liked: Batman Returns

Movie I hated: Terms of Endearment

Like this status and I'll give you an actor!

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q71/1016701_10151786922146018_702804486_n.jpg

CHAOS

If you don't love your thing, it stops working.

.. Bob Marley, obviously

has anybody else had their Wall splattered with people posting shit like this:

[snip]

Actor given to me by - Danny DeVito

Movie I loved: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Movie I liked: Batman Returns

Movie I hated: Terms of Endearment

Like this status and I'll give you an actor!

― Neanderthal, Thursday, July 4, 2013 2:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey this seems like fun :(

not fun when the same 3 people do it 17 times and everybody picks the same boring actors.

one of my favorite old people shares the daily status updates from Joel Osteen and all the pro-Paula Deen macros
I wish I could block just the shared stuff, but that's not an option.

someone I was casual friends w/ used to share the Osteen shit, gave up and unfriended them and set fire to their house iirc

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2134/p57f.jpg

lol

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/153038-happy-2013th-birthday-america-is-now-a-thing-on-twitter/

so apparently it was an attempt to start a meme. wow. great meme guys.

"apparently sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet". sure it does - when you actually use it.

weird thing is that it was July 4, 0 A.D. when Marty McFly went back in time and nearly ruined his parents' courtship.

I heard it was 0 B.C.

Libyans fault iirc

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/945059_10151554025417725_1649522133_n.jpg

If you're proud of who you are & don't give two shits, you're constipated.

that looks like a bad photocopy of an original document. hate to think someone spent the time to print this out

Was going to compliment them on getting the you're, it's, and they're right, but I see they did miss one ("you're mind"). Still, a pretty good job in that respect.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/996812_615340985167060_1109678996_n.png

:D

I share Fear's view of Xmas

ok not really, but only when thinking of it in July

Is it just me, or is that a particularly bad drawing of Pluto?

Pluto's tail is just plain ridiculous.

'shop

maybe it's a ringworm