Comments on: I hate people who are secretely waiting to start posting 25 things lists until the meme is dead and then they'll revive it to annoy all their friends

I hate people who are secretely waiting to start posting 25 things lists until the meme is dead and then they'll revive it to annoy all their friends

Stynxno — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:16:37 -0800

25 Things I Hate About Facebook [u o==o video]

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:22:34 -0800

What the crap is "[u o==o video]" ? Does this have something to do with that twitter thing that all the kids are into?

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:24:19 -0800

I think it's one of those U-Tubes we're hearing so much about lately.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:25:06 -0800

Please stop using the string "u o==o". Right now.

By: xbonesgt

xbonesgt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:26:03 -0800

Maybe the FPP is calling us all dumbbells.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:27:20 -0800

Does this have something to do with that twitter thing that all the kids are into? No, it's got something to do with that kidder thing all the twits are into.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:30:54 -0800

13 year old approach to not liking a website or service: 1) Get angry. 2) Compose a rant and send it to all your friends. 3) make sure everyone everywhere knows just how much you dislike this website or service. Start an online group, maybe make a slogan. Engage in online and real-life conflicts with supporters of that website or service. Let thinking of clever put-downs for that website or service, and degrading nicknames for its supporters, become the center of your life, and the exclusive basis for your feelings of self-worth. grown-up approach to not liking a website or service: 1) Don't use it. Quick quiz for those making the never-fucking-ending Twitter comments: which group sounds more like you?

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:31:22 -0800

yew tube

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:32:20 -0800

I really hope the term "twit" for Twitter users sticks, by the way. Half the Livejournals I used to read are just Twitter feeds now. I want to read about what's going on, not OMG TONY ITS SO COLD AT THE BUS STOP C U SOON.

By: monospace

monospace — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:32:27 -0800

Yeah, duplicate pictures. Glad to know I'm not the only one obsessing about that.

By: creeky

creeky — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:32:52 -0800

u o==o, u o==o, u o==o, o nono

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:33:20 -0800

Σ o==o o==o o==o

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:34:35 -0800

Slaves to the ego broadcast. Let it die, friends, let it die.

By: orme

orme — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:35:21 -0800

Why don't we also come up with a string to represent Facebook, so we don't have to type it out like a million times a day? How about (_!_) ?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:37:25 -0800

grown-up approach to not liking a website or service: 1) Don't use it. Well, the grownup approach to people who don't like movies must be just to not watch them, so I guess Rodger Ebert is just a punk, right? Furthermore, with something like twitter it's not the site itself that's annoying, it's all the hype about twitter all over the media. Not using twitter won't help you avoid the hype and obnoxiousness. With Facebook, it's likely to be the only social network that most of your friends are on, so not using the site means not being connected with them. It's not like you can just export your friends list and keep in touch with them on some other site because Facebook prohibits that and in fact runs around suing people who make tools to do it.

By: naju

naju — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:38:41 -0800

Let it die, friends, let it die. Dear Facebook, You have been bitten by Burhanistan! Click the 'Start Biting Chumps' button to become a zombie and start biting other chumps! Start Biting Chumps! | Ignore

By: foxy_hedgehog

foxy_hedgehog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:40:03 -0800

Funny, I just deactivated my account yesterday (note: not because of annoyance over duplicate pictures). I found this mildly entertaining.

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:41:03 -0800

1) Hate a popular website 2) ... 3) Profit!

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:41:23 -0800

No matter how tired something gets, no matter how stupid something is, I always find comfort knowing there is something out there even more stupid. That would be the idiots who need to tell the world how stupid they think that thing is. Facebook is a tool. I find that tool useful. Before the internet came along did people rant this much about, say, Torx screwdrivers?

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:41:44 -0800

The one and only thing I hate about facebook is that other people just can't fucking shut up about it.

By: gman

gman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:42:25 -0800

With Facebook, it's likely to be the only social network that most of your friends are on, so not using the site means not being connected with them. I connect with my friends via email, in person, and occasionally on the phone.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:46:58 -0800

> Before the internet came along did people rant this much about, say, Torx screwdrivers? I can't speak to Torx specifically, but...ever spent much time around a mechanic?

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:47:00 -0800

If Torx screwdrivers were fast becoming the only means to keep in touch with people and if some people were waving their Torx screwdrivers in your face and jabbing you with them, then yes- I would complain about screwdrivers. Also, Torx screwdrivers don't tell Camcar LLC about the handedness of the user or the kind of screws you're driving with them.

By: darksasami

darksasami — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:47:21 -0800

Half the Livejournals I used to read are just Twitter feeds now. If you are using an LJ style based on "Expressive" by Ideacodes, this Greasemonkey script will remove all LoudTwitter entries from your LJ friends page. If you use a filtered page, you may have to change the "Included Pages" from "http://*.livejournal.com/friends/*" to "http://*.livejournal.com/friends*". If you aren't using Expressive, the script can't remove the LoudTwitter posts entirely, but there are instructions for using it to remove the bulleted list, so that's something. I don't actually use this--because when I posted the above to my own LJ, the twits mostly decided to cut it out.

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:47:52 -0800

What struck me about this video is that most of the things he hates about Facebook I either a) don't use and ignore, or b) use in a non-annoying way. If you're complaining about virtually every feature of a site, you're probably doing it wrong.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:48:36 -0800

I connect with my friends via email, in person, and occasionally on the phone.

Luddite.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:49:07 -0800

I'm . . . confused.

By: dbiedny

dbiedny — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:56:10 -0800

25 Shit Sandwiches.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:57:49 -0800

I hate people when they're not polite.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:57:51 -0800

I know how the internet works. Now someone will do a "25 things I hate about that guy's shitty video about the 25 things he hates about Facebook," and so on.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:58:50 -0800

o==o oh I get it, it's a "tube"! clever But anyway I did like this video. I like the live action references to stupid things people do over the internet. So I guess all the same annoying crap that happens on facebook is that same annoying crap that happens on myspace. My mom convinced me to start up a facebook account (that I never use and I am going to delete) she said facebook was different from myspace and way cooler and blah blah blah...but every one of those 25 reasons are why I deleted my myspace... so where is the difference. Other than not being able to configure your facebook page to look like a hello kitty factory vomited all over it, it is the same damn thing.

By: giraffe

giraffe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:59:44 -0800

People who don't use Facebook: how do you share pictures with friends? This is the only thing that really irritated me when I was without Facebook for a week (also missing out on no fewer than three event invitations).

By: Ian A.T.

Ian A.T. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:01:06 -0800

Half the Livejournals I used to read are just Twitter feeds now. You think that's bad? It looks like we've lost Stephen Fry.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:02:21 -0800

I'm not sure whether this video is worth taking the time to watch, but the snark level is giving me the distinct impression that no, it is not.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:08:17 -0800

it's not that bad of a video blucevalo,

By: NoMich

NoMich — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:08:47 -0800

That guy is totally right about old people on Facebook and there should be an age limit on it. In fact, there should be an age limit on the entire Web. It should be, like, 20, or something.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:10:42 -0800

I connect with my friends via email, in person, and occasionally on the phone. I'd connect with them on my lawn, if it weren't for all the damn kids.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:10:48 -0800

People who don't use Facebook: how do you share pictures with friends? I have 5 hand held photo albums and a couch to sit on while looking at them.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:13:03 -0800

Is this something I would need a... oh, forget it. A considered response.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:13:20 -0800

I laughed a couple times. The 2nd half is better. I liked the guy who dropped his phone in the toilet.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:13:27 -0800

I have 5 hand held photo albums and a couch to sit on while looking at them. Link?

By: starman

starman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:16:41 -0800

o==o o==o o==o o==o (Ninja Turtles)

By: Spatch

Spatch — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:35 -0800

[=T=] [o==o] [o==o] [o==o] [o==o] [o--oY._ CHOO CHOO

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:28:08 -0800

Sure there are annoying things about U2, but No Line on the Horizon is awesome.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:28:49 -0800

*cleats throat* meh.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:30:59 -0800

I avoid the media hype about twitter by avoid media hype. I avoid being unable to connect with Facebook friends by not having friends. You'd be amazed how much time this frees up for clicking "reload" on MetaFilter.

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:33:29 -0800

I really hope the term "twit" for Twitter users sticks, by the way. I read this the other day and wait with abated breath! Twitter V.C. Laughs at the Doubters

"Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the venture capitalists that poured an additional $35 million into Twitter recently, apparently finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter's lack of a business model, according to ReadWriteWeb. 'We think it's kind of funny,' Mr. Dagres recently told Innovation Economy. 'We know how we're going to do it, and we're very confident about how we're going to do it, and it's not necessarily in our interest to tell people how we're going to do it.' Mr. Dagres, who said that Sparks and Union Square Ventures are the two biggest shareholders in Twitter, told the blog that there is a business model - it just hasn't been implemented yet. But he did provide one clue. 'All of a sudden there will be some changes that won't undermine the experience or the vitality — but it will be pretty obvious how we're going to monetize it,' he said."

Experience and vitality! That's something a prostitute can also provide.

By: ghost of a past number

ghost of a past number — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:36:54 -0800

'We think it's kind of funny,' Mr. Dagres recently told Innovation Economy. 'We know how we're going to do it, and we're very confident about how we're going to do it, and it's not necessarily in our interest to tell people how we're going to do it.' The plan probably includes a burlap sack, a pair of Groucho eyeglasses and a really fast car.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:40:07 -0800

[u o==o video] More like attention-grabbing stunt.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:41:24 -0800

Umm, so basically, this guy doesn't know how to use Facebook notification settings, but does know how to edit videos. It's good to know the limitations of his knowledge.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:47:09 -0800

"People who don't use Facebook: how do you share pictures with friends?" Flickr. Easier than spam-emailing everyone in my address book. Also that way I can dump full-res photos so people stop asking me to print them copies, because any of my friends or family can now download and print their own copies. If you hate Flickr there's always Picasa Web. Some of my friends use that. Or MobileMe Gallery, which my cousin prefers. But according to your profile page you use Flickr yourself, already, which makes me wonder why you're asking in the first place. I'm sure that if you looked hard enough there's very little you can do on Facebook that doesn't have a perfectly good non-Facebook alternative. It might not be as simple, or all in one place, but it probably also doesn't require you to make all your friends and family sign up for a service that mines their personal data just to do something as simple as share a photo. You needn't log in to see public Flickr photos, and if they're the kind of photos you don't want to share with the whole world maybe you shouldn't be posting them online in the first place.

By: Cookiebastard

Cookiebastard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:10:15 -0800

I am an old person on Facebook. (If 41 is old, which, yes, it is). Most of my friends on Facebook are close to my age. The only people who I have noticed complaining about various Facebook features are younger people. Maybe old people are better at ignoring things. Or maybe the younger people with whom I am acquainted are whiney bitches. I watched this video, and for almost all 25 items listed I either thought "That doesn't bother me" or "I've never even seen that". "Happy Birthday" posts? That sounds pretty nice. Pillow Fights and the "Compare Your Friends" app? I've never seen them. Duplicate Pictures? People are really annoyed by seeing a picture twice?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:14:15 -0800

clockwork, those camels just made my day. o==o Stynx, you need to tell AutoCAD to occlude hidden edges at render time.

By: ook

ook — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:19:07 -0800

This is a much funnier and more honest rant on the facebook experience.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:19:35 -0800

What the hell is wrong with "Happy Birthday" posts? Oh yeah, you don't want to be reminded that you're one year closer to your palm flower turning black and automatically deactivating your facebook.

By: Squid Voltaire

Squid Voltaire — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:22:01 -0800

I liked the actor. Didn't like the video so much. But still, this whole thread was entirely worth it for Clockwork's Angry Camels!!! Come to think of it, many things might be worth it for clockwork camels, angry or serene.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:27:31 -0800

every one of those 25 reasons are why I deleted my myspace They're why I didn't have a Myspace and chose the relatively civilized, minimal, and clean Facebook instead. And now? Fuck you, Facebook. Fuck. You. Six more months, tops.

By: alona

alona — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:39:36 -0800

Seems like few people are commenting on the actual content, so: I saw it this morning and it sucks. The guy's trying to be funny and he's not, I really expected something... better.

By: nola

nola — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:42:06 -0800

how dare this kid say something about something. Who does he think he is? Does he have a Metafiter account? Stop posting things for me to watch, I'm trying to fritter my day away here! Mmmm, fritters. I think I'll go twitter about fritters. E'scuze me.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:42:45 -0800

o==o oh I get it, it's a "tube"! ~~clever~~ retarded

By: samsara

samsara — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:56:15 -0800

Easier than figuring out 'My ' I guess...

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:56:39 -0800

So close. This is how you indicate a youtube^u= video.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:58:15 -0800

I use twitter. I post interesting links, send messages to friends, and, yes, occasionally post a personal message about what I'm doing at the moment. But the latter is very rare. I really don't get the people who hate Twitter with a passion, but I also don't get the people who think it's the Future of the Web. Anyone feel like explaining?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:01:06 -0800

I really don't get the people who hate Twitter with a passion Turn on the TV. You will understand.

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:15:42 -0800

Maybe old people are better at ignoring things. We're also better at putting things into proper perspective. When you have that ability, it's hard to get worked up or irritated about anything that involves Facebook.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:19:21 -0800

Turn on the TV. You will understand. So Twitter is something I need to have a TV for in order to understand?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:21:06 -0800

To understand how absofucking annoying it is, yes.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:26:42 -0800

Cookiebastard, I'm 42, and I'm facebook-friends with a lot of acquaintances and relatives around my age, including my 68-year-old mom. We're even using it to organize our 25-year-high-school reunion. And I agree--all the gadgets and gee-gaws and doo-dads don't bother me at all, really; I just ignore them, then smile gleefully when the French foreign-exchange student who I hadn't heard from in 20 years accepts my friend request.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:29 -0800

you fail at sarcasim shit and I fail at spelling, damn it!

By: acro

acro — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:29:18 -0800

(yt) somegreybloke explains what facebook is for.

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:31:02 -0800

Maybe old people are better at ignoring things. I think it's because older people generally have friends who are smart enough and have good enough taste not to bother their contacts with SuperPokes or invites to Mob Wars. In that vein, I've had a theory for a while that you can get a pretty good idea of someone's intelligence from their Myspace. It it garish? Does it have lots of jumping animated stuff? SuperPokes? Do they use "u" and "4" as words? That's your warning sign that person is Bad News. (c)

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:31:13 -0800

Sys Rq: Turn on the TV. You will understand. Could you point me to the channel where they're talking about this or are you just snarkily avoiding the question? I'm seriously wondering why people hate on twitter, other than that it is Cool To Do So.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:31:21 -0800

In fact, there should be an age limit on the entire Web. It should be, like, 20, or something. Who do you think oils the gigantic brass gears in datacenters around the world? It's ain't 19 year-olds.

By: everichon

everichon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:31:36 -0800

Twitter is for the olds. I am using a new service called . , where you can post a "." or an absence of ".". What's ossum is that I can do it from my iPhone, from, like, anywhere.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:35:21 -0800

Oh no it's happening again!

By: pyrex

pyrex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:35:58 -0800

Oohh so that's what it is, and here I was, thinking I saw a VCR tape in ASCII form. Oh well, he's a step-by-step of what happens to a VCR tape when your VCR machine's feeling peckish. (A reference for the youngest of folks in the audience) [ o==o ] [ o==o ] [ o==o ] [ o= =o ] * RANDOM ERROR IN THE PHYSICAL REALM * [ o=Ξo ] [ o≠Ξo ] [ o≠Ξx ] Шῐ͠ ‍‍‍ ٲ Ш That last frame is supposed to be your VCR tape melting in your hands. You thought you could save it, but how wrong you were.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:42:03 -0800

oh I get it, it's a "tube"! Christ, thank you. That was driving me crazy. /fogey

By: misha

misha — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:03:56 -0800

It looks like we've lost Stephen Fry. I'm on Twitter. My favorite part? Not only do I follow Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry is now following me. This makes me happy.

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:36:39 -0800

What the hell is a twitter?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:47:54 -0800

\  B==D    B==D       /
 \   B===D  B==D     /
  \ B===D   B==D    /
   \   B===D       /
    \      B===D  /
     \  B===D    /
      \  B===D  /        
       \_______/

* a bucket of cocks

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:51:17 -0800

Your engorged glans are bigger than your testes.(?)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:51:36 -0800

Glanses? Glani? Plural of glans, anyone?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:54:11 -0800

you could always just go with "dickheads"

By: pineapple

pineapple — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:31:06 -0800

You know, while we're on the subject, let me run something past you all: 8===D ~-~-~~ I just don't think that the blink tag is used enough in ASCII cock/jism art. It adds a spurt of realjism, don't you think?

By: fontophilic

fontophilic — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:34:10 -0800

I just grabbed this off my facebook home page. Barack Obama is my friend. Some guy likes pies, naruto, and murdering websites and website viewers. Thanks facebook.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:38 -0800

for flatluigi: The Daily Show on Twitter

By: regicide is good for you

regicide is good for you — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:34:16 -0800

All I see is two ducks having a staring contest beside a washbasin.

By: tapesonthefloor

tapesonthefloor — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:56:45 -0800

> Stynx, you need to tell AutoCAD to occlude hidden edges at render time. c==o There you go.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:02:23 -0800

Genau.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:45:15 -0800

You know what I fucking hate? That new meme on Facebook where there's a big picture with different cartoon characters on it and it says, like, "The drunk one," or "The one who always gets hurt," and you're supposed to tag your friends in it. Fuck the people who post that shit. Those are the same fuckers who think their life is Sex and the City or House or whatever and talk about how Jenny is Samantha no I'm Samantha no way Jenny is totally Samantha did you see the shoes she bought and besides she's the hot one no I'm the hot one I can't believe you don't think I'm the hot one and I even lent you my skirt the other day...Basically, what I'm saying is, if you think your friends are character actors playing bit parts in the blockbuster drama of your life, you need to be killed.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:07:37 -0800

My friends are SPECIAL GUEST STARS in the blockbuster drama that is my life.

By: gtr

gtr — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:15:40 -0800

Well, the grownup approach to people who don't like movies must be just to not watch them, so I guess Rodger Ebert is just a punk, right? Comparing what Ebert does to Afroblanco throwing out his now expected one line dismissal of twitter, now even on threads not having anything to do with twitter, should easily win 'dumbest analogy of the day' quite easily; maybe of the week. Stephen Fry is now following me. This makes me happy. posted by misha Along with 50,000 others. Talk loud.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:19:01 -0800

Could you point me to the channel where they're talking about this or are you just snarkily avoiding the question? CNN. MSNBC. You know, the funny channels.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:20:13 -0800

(And it's not just that they're talking about it; it's that they're doing it. On the air. Like it matters.)

By: greenskpr

greenskpr — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:38:33 -0800

(And it's not just that they're talking about it; it's that they're doing it. On the air. Like it matters.) But it matters to flatluigi...at 40 something he'll have other shit to worry about than telling someone he's going to go eat dinner now, or that he's so tired today...at 20 you're all about you. Things that involve you seem really important. Important enough to constantly share. Give the young fucks their due. It's not much and they'll have to grow up and onward soon enough. Let em have their fun while they can. It's a pet rock. Fucks? I meant turks

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:42:58 -0800

greenskpr: I don't "constantly share" my every waking thought and nobody I'm following does. Sys Rq: So, your argument is that Twitter sucks because it does? What stellar reasoning.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:46:18 -0800

My argument is that if I hear Anderson Cooper use the word "tweet" one more time, I just might have to punch someone in the throat.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:46:52 -0800

(I suppose that's more of a warning than an argument.)

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:49:31 -0800

The "twitter vocabulary" is very twee, I give you that.

By: everichon

everichon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:17:24 -0800

Right now? I am typing a throwaway comment at MeFi to crudely underscore how ridiculous Twitter is.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:22:15 -0800

Ladies

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:49:14 -0800

o==o oh I get it, it's a "tube"! clever Today is a bad day. This is some sort of karmic retribution for a childhood spent killing insects with flaming Lysol and molten plastic.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:36:41 -0800

Would not poke or add to my friends. If I had an account, which I don't.

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:42:24 -0800

Is this a sign that today is the day I should finally gouge out my eyes and replace them with Vienna sausages?

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:04:33 -0800

Thing I hate most about Facebook is how my mum is always posting those nudes of herself and her various courters. C'mon, mum. Those things show up right on the front page!

By: liza

liza — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:23:36 -0800

in re : Twits i love twitter but hate the "experts" that, you know, twitter professionally (WTF!) i call them #tweetards

By: Elmore

Elmore — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:37:40 -0800

Thing I hate most about Facebook is how my mum is always posting those nudes of herself and her various courters. So far, that's the only thing I like about Facebook.

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:47:05 -0800

Interestingly, half the people on my "people you should know" list are my friends' single moms.

By: orme

orme — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:24:50 -0800

Interestingly, half the people on my "people you should know" list are my friends' single moms. posted by dunkadunc at 1:47 AM Nice. Any of them pokeable?

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:51:35 -0800

OMG! Shut up about Twitter already -- "Guess what? Nobody still doesn't care what you're doing."

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:11:09 -0800

I think the worst part of that article is that she actually used "OMG!" in the title. That and the rampant double negatives.