[Grinchy]

People like to pretend they are awesome individuals on the internet.

You know how sometimes you'll be at a store and they'll ask if you want to donate a dollar to some charity? If they linked that to a person's facebook page, and everyone's fake friends could see that they donated, those charities would become the most powerful institutions in the world overnight.

[echoshifting]

Because sometimes you just have to reach for the stars because puppies and rain is the angel's way of telling you YOLO.

<3 <3 <3 Press like if you agree <3 <3 <3

[Rash]

We could solve all of this if we just had an "anonymous dislike" button.

[Tron 2.0]

<3 <3 <3 Press like if you agree <3 <3 <3

+1 THANX!! THI S REALlY BRITENED MY DAY! IMMA SHARE IT AT BIBEL STUDY 4 SHUR!

[Ken]

We could solve all of this if we just had an "anonymous dislike" button.

If your FB friends are easily angered because they saw you dislike something they posted, I think you need new friends.

[Riggs]

<3 <3 <3 Press like if you agree <3 <3 <3

YOLO 4 real told muh professah he need to liten up cuz lyfe iz 2 short

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I made this a while ago for my status:

[BigJonsson]

ROFL @ Jenna Jameson quote

[Goya]

cool people dont update their status

[R2D4]

Copy and paste this post if you want to cure cancer.

[animlboogy]

It means that your friends, like most people, are far behind the curve of someone who actively participates on a gaming forum (which is itself notoriously late to memes and trends).

Basically, you're always way cooler and far less cool than everybody else. At the same time.

Welcome to the Internet culture.

My gripe? That ever since, circa 2007 or so, when old people suddenly discovered Facebook, you have to be really careful about who you see on your feed lest it turn into a late 90's chain email circle jerk. Hell, just yesterday I had to remove somebody because they posed that famous chain email where the soldier punches the liberal professor. Our kids will never be thankful for it, but at least our generation won't expose their children to such blatantly misguided, poor use of the internet. At least, until they figure out how to track everything we look at while privately browsing.

[Ultima_5]

Because people read something, and it makes them feel good and the feel the need to share it to make others feel good. It's not that complicated. It beats reading threads complaining about it

I stopped using Facebook two years ago because my feed was 85% pictures of babies made by girls I went to high school with who got pregnant in/immediately after HS graduation. I realized that I have a phone and that's the best way to communicate with people. Not to mention I already waste most of my time on GAF. Don't need anything getting in the way with that.

[Zekes!]

One of the reasons I deactivated my FB account was that it seemed to have just devolved in to posts of shitty pictures

[NullPointer]

I'm on my phone right now so I can't post an example but I started to notice that probably about 50% of my newsfeed is people sharing and liking pictures that have lame ass quotes. What gives?

I have one friend that posts about a dozen or more of those random feel-good-quotations pics, every, fucking, day.

He's not going to be a "facebook friend" for long. But then again I don't give a shit about facebook on the whole, so...

[Riggs]

Because people read something, and it makes them feel good and the feel the need to share it to make others feel good. It's not that complicated. It beats reading threads complaining about it

To positive, infiltrator detected.

[Nibel]

You must be new to Facebook

[spermatic cord]

#yolo #nevergiveup #inspirational

[gblues]

I know most of you won't copy this status, but some of you will. I'm going to rant on a pet topic and if you don't copy it, I will think less of you and might de-friend you.

[Trey]

Most annoying shit on FB by far. I don't need to see the tumblr-derivative macros; it's annoying a counter productive to what I use Facebook for.

[whytemyke]

I'm on my phone right now so I can't post an example but I started to notice that probably about 50% of my newsfeed is people sharing and liking pictures that have lame ass quotes. What gives?

My sister has started doing this with some of my really shitty status updates, just as a way to simultaneously troll me and her friends that always post those pictures. Pretty funny, actually.

[Zekes!]

Am I right guys??????????????



Also,



thanks for the tip Drake

[friskykillface]

Yeah I've started seeing this more and more lately.


Heh whatever, dem fads happen.

I usually just post gifs as my status or in response to peoples status.

#YOLO

[Spiffy_1st]

This is a recent one I saw.



I don't get it.

[Copernicus]

Am I right guys?????????????? thanks for the tip Drake

Why are you posting a picture of fat chicks over obese chicks?

[Forearms]

Oh?

This one got me good. Thanks!

[salva]

This is a recent one I saw. I don't get it.

Haha, oh man. I'm going to post that to see how many likes i get.

Edit: no, i'm not. I'm going to come up with some shitty ass quotes using this template to see how many likes i get. Here's the macro if anyone wants to try it too:

[Rapstah]

There were some hilarious spoof ones someone on GAF did months ago now that looked like shitty motivational-style pictures in thumbnails but were actually cake recipes or the definition of completely unrelated things from Wikipedia once you read the text. I liked those.

[Spiffy_1st]

I must say I VASTLY prefer it to the diminishing trend of "If you have a great Mom copy this post to your wall!!"-type bullshit

Facebook is supplying my GAF material.

[PigSpeakers]

Step 1: block seeing your friends's comments and likes. This prevents you from seeing when they like a picture posted by George takei.
Step 2: put people who post more status updates and inspirational/funny pictures than Dr egg man posts threads on ignore.
Step 3: realize this doesn't work on mobile and unfriendly till you're down to only 100 friends.

[salva]

[Spiffy_1st]

Step 1: block seeing your friends's comments and likes. This prevents you from seeing when they like a picture posted by George takei. Step 2: put people who post more status updates and inspirational/funny pictures than Dr egg man posts threads on ignore. Step 3: realize this doesn't work on mobile and unfriendly till you're down to only 100 friends.

But some of them are gold.


1,275 people like this.

I've got way too many friends posting these pictures.

[Rapstah]

Now to hide this from my gf...

[Fari]

1,275 people like this.

At least he won't have to spend money on shoes.

[flintstryker]

Am I right guys?????????????? Also, thanks for the tip Drake

To answer that first one it never did

[Damon Bennet]

A ship is save at the docks.

But a ship is not made to stay there

[Tomat]

#yolo #nevergiveup #inspirational

Sorry, had to post this exact thing in my Facebook. I hope you can forgive me.

[Ultima_5]

The real trick is picking a really nice font.

[echoshifting]

The real trick is picking a really nice font.

Color, too

[Mistle]

It's becausowing now shows us all the shit people "Like". If they like a photo, or statues, or whatever, it shows us. So it's just a constant stream of BS. Never used to be like, and it's completely soured me on FB.

[Kinyou]

This is a recent one I saw. I don't get it.

[PigSpeakers]

It's becausowing now shows us all the shit people "Like". If they like a photo, or statues, or whatever, it shows us. So it's just a constant stream of BS. Never used to be like, and it's completely soured me on FB.

See my above post. You can block things that people like by going to the top right corner of the offending post, and selecting unsubscribe from comments and likes from the drop down menu. Experience improved.

[Kwhit10]

Mine is full of those "funny" ecard pictures.

[Ithil]

[Samara]

All right

I'm gonna post this on my wall

[Ferrio]

Google+'s "What's Hot on google+" is nothing but these now.

[Copernicus]

Google+'s "What's Hot on google+" is nothing but these now.

I miss their incoming stream, it was so much better.

[Chichikov]

[SUPREME1]

Is this really what gets posted on Facebook? I don't have an account.

I thought it was more just quick text?



I suck at social media:

MySpace - skipped it

Facebook - skipped it

Google+ - got it, abandoned it several montsh ago, nobody would jump on

Twitter - don't know what the fuck to do on there; confused



: (

[Raitosaito]

[Rash]

Is this really what gets posted on Facebook? I don't have an account. I thought it was more just quick text? I suck at social media: MySpace - skipped it Facebook - skipped it Google+ - got it, abandoned it several montsh ago, nobody would jump on Twitter - don't know what the fuck to do on there; confused : (

This stuff getting posted on Facebook is a bad thing. Don't worry about sucking at social media, since the people who do use it actually suck more because they abuse it.

"Quick text" updates are still a part of Facebook, thankfully. Then again, whether they carry original thoughts or the copy-pasted thoughts of others is a different story.

I don't know. While people are continuously striving to be unique and individual, it's as if they're only blending together even more due to over-sharing. It gets to a point where many FB users are basically saying the same exact things rather than putting out their own unique thoughts and messages. Current Facebookery is destroying individuality, not promoting it.