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Sho_Nuff82 · Mar 23, 2014

Just a few samples from the last few hours:

It's just as bad as meme spamming on message boards. The formatting is always the same, 90% of the time they are posted by women, they almost always post them in chunks, and it's all the most generic life advice you can imagine. I feel especially frustrated since most of the people who post this on my feed are family, I just want to scream out "hey maybe if you didn't take life advice from the image macros, you wouldn't constantly be on the web complaining about why you can't find a man."

When someone repeatedly posts these, I can make a few assumptions:

1) You are single and depressed
2) You don't have an original thought in your head, or you do and you just lack the ability to turn your thoughts into words
3) You would orgasm to death in a Hallmark card store

Monocle · Mar 23, 2014

But they're all so true!

Fracas · Mar 23, 2014

I don't know what's worse, these or the random ass Zach Galifianakis quotes that he never said.

Plywood · Mar 23, 2014

Very glad I don't get any of these.

Hex · Mar 23, 2014

I so appreciate you sharing your misery with me.
Edit: Oh sort of like the people on facebook do to you.

noquarter · Mar 23, 2014

Well the first looks like it might be from a Tony A Gaskins Jr website. The last is probably from Someecard something or another. The middle two, I don't know.

But I'm with you, have these all over my Facebook and it is the same people that post these as in your case. Really thought about unfriending mist of them, and asked my wife if she would be too upset about me unfriending her Mom, but ended up just going to Facebook less.

Kano on the Phone · Mar 23, 2014

You could have unfollowed everyone posting these in the amount of time it took to make this thread and you'd be free of them.

They're probably made by a) teenagers or b) pages that exist to get followers/likes and make money.

Servbot24 · Mar 23, 2014

Just unfollow anyone who posts those.

phillipgessert · Mar 23, 2014

Some people feel the need to constantly update to stay on their friends' radar, or to keep up with frequent updates from their friends. Most people don't have enough going on for all those updates, so they transform their feeds into 'curated content'. Turns out, most people kinda suck at curation.

Sho_Nuff82 · Mar 23, 2014

I really need to start trimming the fat.

Walter White Walker · Mar 23, 2014

I get a lot of these on Facebook. I have no idea where or why people get them.

SJRB · Mar 23, 2014

I wish I could digitally punch people in the face who retweet shit like this on twitter.

Aurongel · Mar 23, 2014

Misquotes from famous figures or quotes that just never occurred irk me far more.

davepoobond · Mar 23, 2014

If you love life then love will life you

Fari · Mar 23, 2014

"The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."

Jennifer Lawrence

XiaNaphryz · Mar 23, 2014

OP should reply to those images with something like this:

jim-jam bongs · Mar 23, 2014

Sho_Nuff82 · Mar 23, 2014

XiaNaphryz said:
OP should reply to those images with something like this:

Haha, that is actually pretty brilliant. Due to the nature of my connections though, I could probably troll my instagram easier than my fb.

Jarnet87 · Mar 23, 2014

Maybe they visit the Vin Diesel page.

Messofanego · Mar 23, 2014

I just insta-block any of my "friends" who does this. Also, more religious people tend to do this as if they have nothing else to say.

It's an easy thing to make fun out of, though.

XiaNaphryz · Mar 23, 2014

ipitydatfu · Mar 23, 2014

http://imgur.com/a/i0Wt7

lethial · Mar 23, 2014

zeemumu · Mar 23, 2014

Tumblr or some such place.

Messofanego · Mar 23, 2014

davepoobond said:
If you love life then love will life you

pants · Mar 23, 2014

hell, also known as tumblr

teruterubozu · Mar 23, 2014

From the great Hallmark collective consciousness.

jim-jam bongs · Mar 23, 2014

XiaNaphryz said:

Love these

Mdot · Mar 23, 2014

I've been thinking about this crap too. That shit drives me nuts. I usually find them being posted by people who just ended a relationship or something like that. Like, "look at this thought-provoking" picture of text to see how well I'm doing without you."

Also on topic, the thinly-veiled, looking for attention posts on FB. "Some people just need to grow up." "OMG can this day get any worse!?" "That's it, I'm done caring about people who don't appreciate it." blah blah, ask me what's wrong so I can reply with a comment that make it's look like I don't care.

/rant

edit: that Jenna Jameson response is great

Fari · Mar 23, 2014

CarpeDeezNutz · Mar 23, 2014

The ones that get to me are those hyperlinks or whatever the fuck they are called. When I see a friend post that shit I call them out haha.

OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather · Mar 23, 2014

This thread makes me want to reopen my Facebook account, just to fuck with people.

lethial said:

This will always be great.

Quackula · Mar 23, 2014

Do these things really bother you all that much?

I don't really get what's so horribly offensive or annoying about them? They seem pretty easy to just ignore...

qizah · Mar 23, 2014

I don't get those either, I find them pretty annoying.

I don't mind the someecards ones. Those are usually pretty funny.

Guzim · Mar 23, 2014

Jarnet87 said:
Maybe they visit the Vin Diesel page.

Vinbook is fantastic, and I recommend that everyone like his page.

theaface · Mar 23, 2014

Post a picture of yourself with no make up on, then you'll truly be inspired to greatness.

Kjellson · Mar 23, 2014

t

http://mymodernlover.tumblr.com/

themagicalkitsune · Mar 23, 2014

ipitydatfu said:
http://imgur.com/a/i0Wt7

This got me.

The worst for me is when these 'inspiring' quotes are written in weird places, like

or

Is pen and paper too mainstream now?

joedan · Mar 23, 2014

Same person?

Into · Mar 23, 2014

On my FB its 95% of the time females who post them, young ones in particular

If they work out and try to stay in shape: Its about staying motivated, being sexy etc

If they had a nasty split/divorce: Its about how its great to be free, not being controlled by anyone else

If they are in a relationship that is going wlel: its about how great it is to be in love and found their "soulmate"

Its like they want to say something, but the platform that is Facebook and the hundreds of friends reading is intimidating, they cannot post anything specific, otherwise people will figure out what they are actually talking about. So they just copy/paste a inspirational quote that somehow relates to their own lives and hope others "get" the real meaning.

Toadette · Mar 23, 2014

just Un follow those attention seeking people

Jacobi · Mar 23, 2014

Yep these are always stupid as hell and make me unfollow people

Soup Bar · Mar 23, 2014

Darkmakaimura · Mar 23, 2014

These are hilarious!

Extra Sauce · Mar 23, 2014

By far the worst thing about Facebook. It does help me identify all the corny slash dumb motherfuckers on my list.

Dabanton · Mar 23, 2014

I have family members mostly aunts who post tons of these silly things.

I think it is in lieu of people not having anything actually interesting to say so hey let me post a quote.

Messofanego · Mar 23, 2014

Mdot said:
Also on topic, the thinly-veiled, looking for attention posts on FB. "Some people just need to grow up." "OMG can this day get any worse!?" "That's it, I'm done caring about people who don't appreciate it." blah blah, ask me what's wrong so I can reply with a comment that make it's look like I don't care.

Someone pointed out to me that there's a word for this.

vaguebooking

Ugh.

Spiritreaver · Mar 23, 2014

You guys are horrible Facebook friends. It's people that complain about the shit on social media that annoy the fuck outta me. Just unfollow and stop whining.

Pirabear · Mar 23, 2014

Soup Bar said:

legacyzero · Mar 23, 2014

Kjellson said:
http://mymodernlover.tumblr.com/

OH GOD loololol

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