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

u could always just quit facebook

that's not the point

I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT BUZZFEED

39 Reasons Why You're So Zachlyon

16. Remember that cat from that 90s movie Go? How crazy was that?

http://catsonfilm.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/go04_31.jpg

omg where's the rest of that list

i'm finding upworthy kind of insidious lately too

This Cute 9-Year-Old Says Something That Happens to Be a Wry Political Observation And It Will Change. Your. Life.

i like how businessinsider is now the paper of record. according to my facebook.

buzzfeed just official LOL organ for koch brothers, no?

business insider on the other hand run by a guy permanently banned from the securities industry and the founder of doubleclick.

upworthy aaaaagh. at least buzzfeed allows you the privilege of knowing what you're going to see when you click the link. upworthy just entices people with weirdly enticing pseudo-gibberish and suddenly a YT of amanda palmer is in my browser

or as upworthy calls her "THIS WOMAN"

"FEMALE PERSON DOES THING WOW, MUST LOOK JUST SEE, LOSE WEIGHT FAST TRICK"

"(x person/thing) Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity" = STOPPPPPP

haha Upworthy has tricked me several times with their vague promises!

Upworthy, Uproxx, Buzzfeed, theyre all terrible. Useless site-scraping ad-revenue-gathering BS portals that do nothing for no one. Haaaate.

I actually enjoyed reading an article about strippers in North Dakota oil towns last week that happened to be on buzzfeed but at no point did I ever think that it was actually related to buzzfeed in any way.

They're weird like that. Completely heinous 99% of the time, and then they pull something out of their ass like last March's story looking back at the Jonesboro shootings.

https://sphotos-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/18685_520925304627297_673835717_n.jpg

I can't believe she did this at school every day! Is it normal?

recently the buzzfeed guy used some cafe analogy to describe how people consume news ('they will read some news, check facebook, talk to the waiter, play with a puppy etc')

http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/buzzfeed

FC: You have two different kinds of content--reported stuff and the stuff about cats. Are they attracting two different audiences?

JP: It's the same audience. Have you heard me talk about the Paris cafe? You go to a cafe and you bring a copy of Sartre and Le Monde. There's a cute dog under the table next to you. So after you read the news and the philosophy, you may pet the dog, flirt with someone at another table, and talk about some trivial gossip. All these things are part of being human. You don't become stupid when you turn away from the philosophy and pet the dog. People are complex and multifaceted. When you talk to people who say it dumbs down the audience to have cute animals, the truth is nobody has a choice: because Facebook and Twitter are perfect Paris cafes.

facebook is more like a panera in akron but ok

also i don't think that person has ever been to paris or a cafe

Facebook and Twitter are perfect Paris cafes.

I was fascinated that Panera exists in the far northeast already

can we plz refer to it as Pantera so I can at least get lols out of that dull place

I just get mac and cheese when I end up there

otm

Just call it "St Louis Bread Company"

When I go to a cafe I usually bring the New Yorker, eat quickly and GTFO.

I like the implication that Buzzfeed's readers spend the rest of their time digging into Sartre and the daily newspaper and are merely engaging in the fundamentally and equally human diversion of seeing twenty Disney characters and vegetables that kinda look like them. Or maybe he's saying that the non-cat content on Buzzfeed is the equivalent of Sartre. I have no idea because his use of language is incoherent, blundering and unfocused, almost as if he had been "dumbed down" or something.

Local iOS programming group meets at a Panera. A lot of techie/business networking groups use them as makeshift meeting places. Dull, but the drip coffee is OK and their slightly stale cinnamon rolls are surprisingly good.

I work near a Panera and eat there too often, in all honesty

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/beauty-weird-places-25.jpg

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/beauty-weird-places-5.jpg

"His dream was to be a quadriplegic wildlife artist"

"wresting"

guy had a lot of time on his mouth

that inspirational internet image gave me the bravery to finally follow through on my dream: murdering people who create inspirational internet images

More metal bands doing inspirational deeds for injured teens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNApZRy3wk

haha

xpost whatever man i don't need to justify myself to some monochrome raptor bird

That metal band one =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFQpd9akSg

Obligatory "TTTIIIIMMMMMAAAHHHHHH!"

Paris Cafe

http://i.imgur.com/vY7Zh6L.jpg

being awesome due to aliveness is some breathing air merit badge shit

http://i.imgur.com/1O21uET.jpg

a+ pplains

whoa

pplains v. Z S showdown GO