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
March 5, 2009 8:16 AM   Subscribe

 
What the crap is "[u o==o video]" ?

Does this have something to do with that twitter thing that all the kids are into?
posted by Afroblanco at 8:22 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


I think it's one of those U-Tubes we're hearing so much about lately.
posted by dunkadunc at 8:24 AM on March 5, 2009


Please stop using the string "u o==o". Right now.
posted by Plutor at 8:25 AM on March 5, 2009 [41 favorites]


Maybe the FPP is calling us all dumbbells.
posted by xbonesgt at 8:26 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by jonmc at 8:27 AM on March 5, 2009 [7 favorites]


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?

posted by drjimmy11 at 8:30 AM on March 5, 2009 [32 favorites]




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.
posted by dunkadunc at 8:32 AM on March 5, 2009


Yeah, duplicate pictures. Glad to know I'm not the only one obsessing about that.
posted by monospace at 8:32 AM on March 5, 2009




Σ o==o o==o o==o
posted by Dr-Baa at 8:33 AM on March 5, 2009


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 (_!_) ?
posted by orme at 8:35 AM on March 5, 2009 [4 favorites]


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.
posted by delmoi at 8:37 AM on March 5, 2009 [14 favorites]


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
posted by naju at 8:38 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


Funny, I just deactivated my account yesterday (note: not because of annoyance over duplicate pictures). I found this mildly entertaining.
posted by foxy_hedgehog at 8:40 AM on March 5, 2009


1) Hate a popular website
2) ...
3) Profit!
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 8:41 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


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?
posted by bondcliff at 8:41 AM on March 5, 2009 [4 favorites]


The one and only thing I hate about facebook is that other people just can't fucking shut up about it.
posted by adamvasco at 8:41 AM on March 5, 2009 [5 favorites]


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.
posted by gman at 8:42 AM on March 5, 2009 [10 favorites]


> 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?
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:46 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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.
posted by dunkadunc at 8:47 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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.
posted by darksasami at 8:47 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 8:47 AM on March 5, 2009


I connect with my friends via email, in person, and occasionally on the phone.
Luddite.
posted by MrMoonPie at 8:48 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


I'm . . . confused.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:49 AM on March 5, 2009


25 Shit Sandwiches.
posted by dbiedny at 8:56 AM on March 5, 2009




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.
posted by ORthey at 8:57 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by SheMulp AKA Plus 1 at 8:58 AM on March 5, 2009 [2 favorites]


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).
posted by giraffe at 8:59 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Ian A.T. at 9:01 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by blucevalo at 9:02 AM on March 5, 2009


it's not that bad of a video blucevalo,
posted by SheMulp AKA Plus 1 at 9:08 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by NoMich at 9:08 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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.
posted by rocket88 at 9:10 AM on March 5, 2009 [7 favorites]


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.
posted by SheMulp AKA Plus 1 at 9:10 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


Is this something I would need a... oh, forget it. A considered response.
posted by clockwork at 9:13 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


I laughed a couple times. The 2nd half is better. I liked the guy who dropped his phone in the toilet.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:13 AM on March 5, 2009


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

Link?
posted by bondcliff at 9:13 AM on March 5, 2009 [7 favorites]


o==o o==o o==o o==o

(Ninja Turtles)
posted by starman at 9:16 AM on March 5, 2009 [7 favorites]


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

CHOO CHOO
posted by Spatch at 9:22 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


Sure there are annoying things about U2, but No Line on the Horizon is awesome.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 9:28 AM on March 5, 2009


*cleats throat*

meh.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:28 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


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.
posted by DU at 9:30 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


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.
posted by ericb at 9:33 AM on March 5, 2009


'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.
posted by ghost of a past number at 9:36 AM on March 5, 2009 [3 favorites]


[u o==o video]

More like attention-grabbing stunt.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:40 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:41 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


"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.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:47 AM on March 5, 2009 [4 favorites]


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?
posted by Cookiebastard at 10:10 AM on March 5, 2009 [5 favorites]


clockwork, those camels just made my day.

o==o

Stynx, you need to tell AutoCAD to occlude hidden edges at render time.
posted by cortex at 10:14 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]




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.
posted by ALongDecember at 10:19 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Squid Voltaire at 10:22 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:27 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by alon at 10:39 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by nola at 10:42 AM on March 5, 2009


o==o

oh I get it, it's a "tube"! clever
retarded
posted by Jeremy at 10:42 AM on March 5, 2009


Easier than figuring out 'My ' I guess...
posted by samsara at 10:56 AM on March 5, 2009


So close. This is how you indicate a youtubeu= video.
posted by team lowkey at 10:56 AM on March 5, 2009


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?
posted by flatluigi at 10:58 AM on March 5, 2009


I really don't get the people who hate Twitter with a passion

Turn on the TV. You will understand.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:01 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by jason's_planet at 11:15 AM on March 5, 2009 [2 favorites]


Turn on the TV. You will understand.

So Twitter is something I need to have a TV for in order to understand?
posted by bondcliff at 11:19 AM on March 5, 2009


To understand how absofucking annoying it is, yes.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:21 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:26 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


you fail at sarcasim

shit and I fail at spelling, damn it!
posted by SheMulp AKA Plus 1 at 11:28 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]




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)
posted by dunkadunc at 11:31 AM on March 5, 2009 [2 favorites]


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.
posted by flatluigi at 11:31 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by GuyZero at 11:31 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by everichon at 11:31 AM on March 5, 2009




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.
posted by pyrex at 11:35 AM on March 5, 2009 [2 favorites]


oh I get it, it's a "tube"!

Christ, thank you. That was driving me crazy.
/fogey
posted by CunningLinguist at 11:42 AM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by misha at 12:03 PM on March 5, 2009




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



* a bucket of cocks
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:47 PM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


you could always just go with "dickheads"
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:54 PM on March 5, 2009


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?
posted by pineapple at 1:31 PM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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.
posted by fontophilic at 1:34 PM on March 5, 2009


for flatluigi: The Daily Show on Twitter
posted by obloquy at 2:09 PM on March 5, 2009


All I see is two ducks having a staring contest beside a washbasin.
posted by regicide is good for you at 2:34 PM on March 5, 2009


> Stynx, you need to tell AutoCAD to occlude hidden edges at render time.

c==o

There you go.
posted by tapesonthefloor at 2:56 PM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


Genau.
posted by cortex at 3:02 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by nasreddin at 3:45 PM on March 5, 2009 [6 favorites]


My friends are SPECIAL GUEST STARS in the blockbuster drama that is my life.
posted by CunningLinguist at 4:07 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by gtr at 4:15 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:19 PM on March 5, 2009


(And it's not just that they're talking about it; it's that they're doing it. On the air. Like it matters.)
posted by Sys Rq at 4:20 PM on March 5, 2009


(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
posted by greenskpr at 4:38 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by flatluigi at 4:42 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:46 PM on March 5, 2009


(I suppose that's more of a warning than an argument.)
posted by Sys Rq at 4:46 PM on March 5, 2009


The "twitter vocabulary" is very twee, I give you that.
posted by flatluigi at 4:49 PM on March 5, 2009


Right now? I am typing a throwaway comment at MeFi to crudely underscore how ridiculous Twitter is.
posted by everichon at 5:17 PM on March 5, 2009


Ladies
posted by limeonaire at 5:22 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Tube at 5:49 PM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


Would not poke or add to my friends. If I had an account, which I don't.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:36 PM on March 5, 2009


Is this a sign that today is the day I should finally gouge out my eyes and replace them with Vienna sausages?
posted by Joseph Gurl at 6:42 PM on March 5, 2009


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!
posted by turgid dahlia at 7:04 PM on March 5, 2009


in re : Twits

i love twitter but hate the "experts" that, you know, twitter professionally (WTF!)
i call them #tweetards
posted by liza at 8:23 PM on March 5, 2009


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.
posted by Elmore at 1:37 AM on March 6, 2009


Interestingly, half the people on my "people you should know" list are my friends' single moms.
posted by dunkadunc at 1:47 AM on March 6, 2009


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?
posted by orme at 4:24 AM on March 6, 2009


OMG! Shut up about Twitter already -- "Guess what? Nobody still doesn't care what you're doing."
posted by ericb at 7:51 AM on March 6, 2009


I think the worst part of that article is that she actually used "OMG!" in the title. That and the rampant double negatives.
posted by flatluigi at 8:11 AM on March 6, 2009


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