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So this year I have made it a goal to not complain about things and see the good in people and help others. This post is going to be a pretty big departure from those philosophies.
In today's culture of instant information and 'look at me' behavior, who else is sick of this crap?
1. Clickbait (especially rampant on Facebook, but people do it here, too). Post links with what is supposed to be an enticing description with a bit of mystery that is supposed to elicit a reaction such as "Oh my, that looks so mysterious! I need to click on it immediately!"
On FB, it's usually something like: "See this little animal about to be run over by a tank? OMG YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!11!!. Then you click on the link and the little animal just moves out of the way.
For me, what it screams is: DON'T CLICK ON THIS. RUN FAR AWAY. If you post a thread like this, you're not getting my click unless you tell me what the f*** I'm clicking into. I don't care who you are.
2. Vaguebooking. OMG this is the worst ever. If you've never experienced this, it's when someone is either feeling sorry for themselves, or have something they think is awesome or otherwise controversial, but for some dumbass reason, they don't just come out and say it. They want you to ask them about it.
First of all, if you want us to know about it: then tell us. If you don't, then don't f'ing post it.. Fishing for attention is polluting FB, and it wasn't all that great to begin with.
Example: Friend #5432 posts: OMG Last night. Funniest thing EVAR!
Which brings up another pet peeve. Who the F*** has that many friends? Nobody, that's who. That's like 4 times the number of people I've talked to in my entire lifetime (I'm 47). But anyway, if it was the funniest thing ever, then just tell us what was so g**d*** funny instead of screaming LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! MY LIFE IS SO AWESOME AND MYSTERIOUS!
Yeah, I realize this is nothing new...but it's getting worse. People who know better are failing big time.
Oh, and another thing...and this is addressed to the companies (and I use this term loosely) that post top ten lists of anything from cutest cats to ugliest plastic surgery disasters and fills the screen with ads (a tangentially related F YOU to that practice), but even worse, the top ten list is split up into ten separate pages instead of putting all ten on one page. When I see this, I immediately close out. The only lists like that where I am getting past page one will have to have something to do with Scarlett Johansson or Milla Jovavich.
Blast away.
In today's culture of instant information and 'look at me' behavior, who else is sick of this crap?
1. Clickbait (especially rampant on Facebook, but people do it here, too). Post links with what is supposed to be an enticing description with a bit of mystery that is supposed to elicit a reaction such as "Oh my, that looks so mysterious! I need to click on it immediately!"
On FB, it's usually something like: "See this little animal about to be run over by a tank? OMG YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!11!!. Then you click on the link and the little animal just moves out of the way.
For me, what it screams is: DON'T CLICK ON THIS. RUN FAR AWAY. If you post a thread like this, you're not getting my click unless you tell me what the f*** I'm clicking into. I don't care who you are.
2. Vaguebooking. OMG this is the worst ever. If you've never experienced this, it's when someone is either feeling sorry for themselves, or have something they think is awesome or otherwise controversial, but for some dumbass reason, they don't just come out and say it. They want you to ask them about it.
First of all, if you want us to know about it: then tell us. If you don't, then don't f'ing post it.. Fishing for attention is polluting FB, and it wasn't all that great to begin with.
Example: Friend #5432 posts: OMG Last night. Funniest thing EVAR!
Which brings up another pet peeve. Who the F*** has that many friends? Nobody, that's who. That's like 4 times the number of people I've talked to in my entire lifetime (I'm 47). But anyway, if it was the funniest thing ever, then just tell us what was so g**d*** funny instead of screaming LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! MY LIFE IS SO AWESOME AND MYSTERIOUS!
Yeah, I realize this is nothing new...but it's getting worse. People who know better are failing big time.
Oh, and another thing...and this is addressed to the companies (and I use this term loosely) that post top ten lists of anything from cutest cats to ugliest plastic surgery disasters and fills the screen with ads (a tangentially related F YOU to that practice), but even worse, the top ten list is split up into ten separate pages instead of putting all ten on one page. When I see this, I immediately close out. The only lists like that where I am getting past page one will have to have something to do with Scarlett Johansson or Milla Jovavich.
Blast away.
