Please don’t tell me to get off of it, I have old Livejournal friends to keep in touch with and that’s why I’m there.
Like when you see they’ve changed to a joint account, and you think “ooh, which one of you cheated on the other?”
“We’re working on our relationship”. Well yes.
Get off of it
Since when do random low quality social media posts qualify as “meme”?-_-
A meme is a “self-propagating” unit of culture.
OP saw this and was compelled to share it. It’s culturally relevant, as it speaks (perhaps satirically, perhaps seriously) about an aspect of human (more specifically: western online) culture.
It’s a meme. I don’t like it any more than you do but it IS definitionally a meme.
That’s why I tell people to loosen up when they complain that the format is being misused. If it works, it works. It is evolution. I don’t like the look of snails any less than the rest of the general population do, but snails evolved the way they did because it works.
Saying you have to stay on Facebook to keep up with people says you aren’t able or willing to put in the energy required to keep up with people yourself.
There are hundreds of communication platforms, and a most of them aren’t run by assholes trying to ruin society for their own personal gain.
That’s a 2 way street. I will say from experience that not using social media like Facebook dramatically dwindled who will reciprocate by text or email.
Fine by me for my life, but I saw the difference as they all used it more and more and I did not.
Honestly, following gossip about people you’re actually connected with is still better than random accounts, pages, and posts you don’t follow being forced on your feed.
It unexpectedly happened to me recently, and I didn’t mean to follow the gossip so much as I was surprised, and I discovered the husband had put up a video of the wife cheating on him that he had hired a private investigator to follow. That is very much not nice, but also cheating is crappy. Last person I expected it from would be her.
So…did you goon?
I am too old to understand this reference…
Man, the idea of people changing names based on who they bang is so wild to me.
I can’t believe how much of the world just… goes with it and thinks it’s normal. It’s definitely not normal. Just some serious psychosexual patriarchy mindfuck going on for so many people.
Anglosaxon cultures out there arguing about pronouns and it turns out they just casually rewrite their identity based on who’s the owner of their daughters going into the second quarter of the 21st century. Nuts.
It’s normal because it’s what most do. That’s what normality is
