"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

when did George Takei embark on his new career as official image-lulz-disseminator on fb?

"Old man discovers internet"

when did George Takei embark on his new career as official image-lulz-disseminator on fb?

I know, right? Seems like so much more like a Shatner or at least Nimoy thing to do.

its annoying to me how people think he is amazing at the internet and theyre always sharing that shit on facebook

I accidentally posted this to the ILM Facebook thread, where it will shrivel and die, so reposting here.

I get no real pleasure out of Facebook until I see a thread like this and then praise be to Zuckerberg.

http://i.imgur.com/Zuoxg.jpg

― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw that a day or two ago and it seems so incredibly insane I'm having a hard time believing it happened. Or that people can be that nuts, more to the point.

http://vancouver.openfile.ca/blog/news/2012/uvic-facebook-prank-goes-viral

xp: a winged tortuous?

rmde "chicks be crazy"

ok lol @

Their names were anagrams: Maria Giny = Imaginary, Carol Tifiling = Fictional girl.

Yeah I figured it might be shenans. The giveaway was all the girl's friends going "you're so lucky to have such a devoted gf" bla bla there is no way somethign this OTT would happen around most sane ppl.

rmde "chicks be crazy"

ikr

phrasing this delicately bc rl but -- a certain student who went pretty self-evidently insane at an east coast university recently turns out to be friends w/ a number of ppl i know, and at least a handful of them have defended her vehemently even tho she is clearly off the rails. i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.

i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.

Truth bomb.

No, it's not. It's just the portrayal of the craziness for pure lols is kind of on the nose to me.

Plenty of crazy fish in the sea, don't know why dudes insist on inventing them.

the girl's posts just read really fake

god, i know :/

xp

:/

Oh balls. After seeing the kind of stuff that ends up on Lamebook, Failbook, etc, this was easy to believe. Agree with VegemiteGrrl - it's unnecessary to invent craziness on Facebook but I guess they didn't know that someone else would post it with the names blacked out (hiding the obvious anagrams) and make it go viral. I quite like this quote: "In retrospect, midterm season probably wasn't the best time to pull this off because since the story's gone viral, I haven't had much peace. I guess in the end I trolled myself most of all.”

Actually im p sure a lot of whats on failbook is made up these days too.

saw this on twitter, don't know if it's real (similar but much more depressing): http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

Depressing if it's real, depressing if it's faked.

men are afraid of women, part XXXXXLVI in a series

Yeah I saw that one too. I have hard time believing kinds of things are real anymore.

(Besides, they always self-explain way too much for the benefit of the reader, which is just bad writing to me, lol.)

*these kinds of things

DL otm: depressed

internet "comedy" must be destroyed

made-up stuff precisely like this w/"crazy girls" sometimes reads like it comes from the same venn diagram circle as 'mccain campaign worker gets attacked by crazy black man in PA'

really w/r/t the "ex-gf stalking" stuff, which i see a lot of for some reason. idk.

it's kind of a comedy meme atm, like those android commercials with the technologically up-to-date stalker girl

I dunno, I guess it satisfies some need in people to feel less crazy than everyone else. Like, "oh well if that's crazy then I'm okay."

If I find out the ones where a student's mum misunderstands a sexual reference and uses it an unwittingly hilarious way are fake then I'm boycotting the internet.

haha

I basically don't believe anything i see online anymore, which is depressing and existentially harrowing.

i understand this:

phrasing this delicately bc rl but -- a certain student who went pretty self-evidently insane at an east coast university recently turns out to be friends w/ a number of ppl i know, and at least a handful of them have defended her vehemently even tho she is clearly off the rails. i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.

― Mordy

a friend of mine was with someone for awhile and she smear-campaigned him after they broke up, contacting exes of his and telling them and all their mutual friends that he was an abuser (which was, for reasons too numerous to go into here, an absurd and unbelievable lie, and i'm someone who is inclined to err on the side of believing someone who says they've been abused), but her friends happily went along with it and he left town (after which she continued to send him mocking e-mail messages interspersed with e-mails professing love.)

if that iphone message conversation is real, then the kevin guy has deleted all his responding texts and trimmed out the non-crazy ones, imo

Also he's an asshole. I feel like Facebook is meant to be public so if you say stupid shit you can expect someone to screengrab it but a private text conversation? Nah.

tbf I have a screenshot of a batshit crazy text I received once but it was only to show to a select few friends

well u know we are select few friends here

eh, maybe some other time. I think I correlated it with her probably locking herself in a bathroom and threatening to kill herself for some other dude

the bros who cried wolf.

I really thinks its kind of funny that I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but not one single irl friend.

That's not funny.

Well, yeah, wrong word. Don't mind me, just going through a feeling sorry for myself phase, realizing its been 15 months now since I've done anything at all with a friend irl.

that's pretty crazy. im a semi-hermit half the time and i saw 6 old friends and 3 acquaintances in the last 2 days. i only have 40 facebook friends. my girlfriend makes fun of me for it. she has over 400.

Just you know, get older friends disappear, etc. Making new friends when you are over 30 is a fucking impossible task.

I have to believe that's not true. Otherwise, I'm doomed.

most of my friends are in their 30s, and im not far off, i turn 28 this year.

probably made more friends since 30 than during my entire 20s