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~*If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best *~

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Juice, Jun 10, 2015.

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  1. Clutch

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    Here's a smattering of gems that have popped up on my Facebook feed in the last year.

    That last one only makes the cut because the next thing he posted was a bunch of pictures of him with a beer in his hand the next weekend. He is 39 and managed to stay on the wagon for about 6 days.
     
  2. wexton

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    I dont even pay attention to when people say the last quote, i hear it so often i just laugh.
     
  3. D26

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    We flat out refuse to put our kids on facebook. We have two kids and no pictures of either of them on facebook because we don't want to be those people. I mostly use it to keep up with friends and family i don't see often, like my brother in Michigan or cousins who live out west. It is also handy for keeping up with old friends I worked with and maintaining those connections for work references.

    That said, I have taken a strict no politics policy and I block or delete anyone who posts their political bullshit for either party. I Just don't care enough to be inundated with political arguments. Fuck off.

    I also post updates so rarely it is barely worth noticing. Same on Twitter. I have one, but never tweet, just follow people to keep up. They're more "what's happening" aggregate sites than anything else for me.

    I just checked and saw this:

    "I'm just throwing this out there to my FB friends, if there is anyone that is looking for a boyfriend, let me know. I am single as well."

    Aaaaaaand unfriend.
     
  4. fleafly

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    Focus: Lately my Facebook has been full of posts about Chris Kyle, Catlyn Jenner, and people sharing recipes or some stupid blog post from some other website.

    Alt-focus: I used to be really bad on Facebook. I would make vague emo posts constantly. I was in a bad place and my constant desire to post reflected that. Now I'm in a better place and I just post concert pictures, or pictures of motorcycle trips I've gone on. In my mind if you are one of those people that lives on Facebook and social media you need to re-evaluate your life.
     
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    I just hate that Facebook has forced me to confront the fact that I know a lot of stupid people. I liked it better when I could just pretend they were normal.
     
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    My cousin is one of those obnoxious child-fueled status updaters. Fine, so be it. But the other week, she decided to chirp about "whoever doesn't like me posting endless pictures of (kids name) can just deal with it. Its not my fault she's cuter and more likeable than the kids you know! If you don't want to see, you can unfriend me." She's always been kind of aggressive since she was a teen, but good god. Of course this was met by cheers and endless likes from some of my other more obnoxious family members. Mind you, my cousin is in her early 30s with two graduate degrees and is a medical physicist. She's not some barefoot mouthbreather, yet the similarities are there...
     
  7. Misanthropic

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    What, no one else gets endless pictures of food, or updates like "Sausage cooking!", "smoking a brisket!", or "Making Dinner!"?

    i don't post updates often, maybe once every couple of months, but Facebook has been a good way to keep in touch with family, old friends, and find out about neighborhood events. I can't say I've experienced much in the way of drama - just one guy in his early 40s who posted about women and relationships in a manner that suggested he was closer to 14 emotionally. He was unfriended pretty quickly.

    And while I see some annoying poltical or religious crap, I see virtually none of the assinine, mangled-English nonsense you folks are posting. I think tonight I'll log on and post about how my friends are better than yours. Then I'll post a picture of my dinner.
     
  8. toddamus

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    I think people mostly post stuff on facebook for self confidence boosts. Its almost like an insecurity, kind of like the annoying kid growing up who'd do anything just so that people would pay attention to him. I have a hard time understanding the endless child pics. fortunately my brother and sister just do that through mass texts, which I treat much like I would facebook, I ignore them. I really only use facebook the way I use twitter, I look through the newsfeed briefly log out, move on to twitter.

    Facebook can be useful. When my twin got sick the way we let his friends know how he was doing or connect with them was through his account. When someone is sick, I do believe facebook can be a positive medium for informing people or getting some good support.

    The people I block/unfriend are those who try to tell someone going through some serious illness its all part of God's plan or God only gives you what you can handle. Those people and the people who post daily photos of their kids. I really hope they know once they post a photo of their kid in the bathtub naked, 13 years from now that kid may find that photo because once something is on facebook it is no longer in your control.
     
  9. Crown Royal

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    People who blindly defend Facebook are as in touch with reality as the people who thought John Gotti was a great guy just because he threw an awesome block party every summer. Facebook has good things, like organizing get-togethers and fast communication. It's also, as FULLY demonstrated in this thread, one of the most obnoxious websites on the entire internet. It's a stellar nursery for the validation-starved. And for MANY, it is a person's entire life. It is FUCKED how people are dialed into Facebook.

    Hitting on a girl you never met because she knows your friend? How fucking creepy is that? Kill yourself, you fucking loser.

    You have 12,376 friends huh? You need a calculator to keep track of the people who come across you. Guess what you don't need a calculator for? Totalling the friends you have in real life.

    Post your Gloria Gaynor-inspired status about how you're totally not upset you just got dumped. I'm sure you're not eating ice cream while crying and watching Pretty Woman.

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    you benched that much at the gym today huh? You couldn't say that you "worked out" you have to demonstrate that anybody who benches less is weaker than you. And nobody asked in the first place.

    Effinshenanigans was right: Facebook is a bullhorn for attention-starved retards on acid. And I've done acid, I know how goofy it makes you.
     
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    My twin actually does the thing that annoys me most: uses quotes from famous authors for his status. Can't say why it annoys me so much, something about trying to be intellectual (and he is smart) and almost showing off, while trying to reveal a public glimpse into his mood in that moment rubs me the wrong way
     
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    I have a scenario for the audience. There was a well-shared (amongst my friends) post on Facebook that was (allegedly) posted by a driver who had been out on an Ontario highway when a woman was texting and driving. I don't recall the specifics and can't find the post right now, but I think the gist was that either she had pulled over and cut him off when getting back on the highway, or was on her phone while driving and nearly hit him. Anyway, the post gave a description of her, her vehicle and her license plate number with a caption "if this was your daughter, wouldn't you want to know?"

    I don't know about you, but I find this practice of public shaming abhorrent. And yet people share that shit like vigilantes, like their click will bring a criminal to justice, without so much as a cursory thought as to the validity of the accusation or the concept of "innocent until proven guilty". THIS, more than baby pictures, recipes or repeated bad science (fuck the idiots perpetuating that alkaline water shit), THIS is what's wrong with social media. In my opinion, of course.
     
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    People get shamed for all kinds of really trivial shit too. Park crooked at the mall, they take a photo with your license plate filter-free on Twitter "Oh hey everybody in #Toronto, look at this asshole! By all means, have a bored neckbeard doc them and ruin their life!"

    Social media has many incredible uses, like tracking dangerous criminals and live feeds. It also brought back mob rule, public shamings, vigilantism and by God it flat-out ruins people's lives over some bullshit that never really bothered the people that did the ruining in the first place. They only give a shit in theory. And goes forth the endless quest of the Social Justice Warrior. Hanging up their red boots and cape for another night to tally the internet arguments they won and maidens they rescued.
     
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    How is that any different than the wahoos you used to clamor for?
     
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    A while back I wrote something on FB that got shared to tumblr, and it had my name on it. It wasn't shared that widely, but widely enough that I got maybe 120 random friend requests.

    I accepted them all.

    My feed is goddamn chaos. I know personal details about people that I have no connection with, it keeps telling me about random birthdays, and I will occasionally get really crazy messages. Example (this woman thanked me for adding her, said she liked the status, pleasantries, w/e):

    "U do the same. I'd also like to copy and paste a message I sent to the man in Detroit. Nite!"

    (I don't know who the man from Detroit is, and the following is just one out of four messages)
     

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    As a political scientist, I was very excited as the internet caught on in the 90's, especially because it seemed a form of communication and education that a lot of people felt very comfortable with, as opposed to newspapers. 20 years later, it's become a depository for idiocy, cat pictures and porn. Now don't get me wrong, I like all three, but find it frustrating that the form of communication used by many, many people is social media. I think it's cool that people can keep up with each other on FB, or Twitter, or whatever else. It probably does a lot of good that way, because who the fuck is writing letters?

    However, that excitement I felt 20 years ago that the internet would revitalize our country has faded. Watching what social media has done to the internet is like watching an ugly chick use a Ferrari Daytona to grocery shop.
     
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    My feed is mostly my cousins spouting bullshit and my wife's cousins airing personal family shit.

    Case in point, my wife's cousin is trailer trash redneck and has three kids by three men, doesn't raise or have custody of any of them, has been born again three times and the most recent led to a marriage.

    They have been married for three weeks and he just head butted her causing a gash that needed twenty stitches. She pressed charges and had him locked up.

    His sister then posted this to her wall

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    Some people need to be sterilized. She doesn't understand why her brother is locked up, domestic violence doesn't equal jail time to her I guess?
     
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    What I got from all that is they named the kid Nevaeh. That's all I need to see right there.
     
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    "Sterilized"? That woman needs to be shot like a lame horse. What a rambling tirade of trailer-born bullshit. If you typed "text fail" on Google that image should pop up first.
     
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    Neveah going to have a job that pays more than $10.10 an hour.
     
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    Around here it's people sharing mugshots of people you went to high school with. The amount of schadenfreude is remarkable. The same link will get shared by 10 people in a row. It's ridiculous.

    My aunt also posts all sorts of conspiracy theory youtube videos, this one is my favorite so far based on title alone:
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