everybody on ilx complains about reddit

i mean, every twitter feed is basically a world unto itself. i find myself thinking about that alot! how "my" experience of twitter sorta feels so highly specific but i can't even imagine what it's like for people who follow 1000s of diverse users.

twitter took me 2+ years to get into but now I think it's better than ILX for wasting time

retweeting is the most radical feature of twitter imo, the injection of completely unrequested chatter into yer feed

I heard one person perfectly sum up twitter as such: "It's like reading 100 different novels at once, but the characters all know each other"

One person on twitter that is

retweeting is the most radical feature of twitter imo, the injection of completely unrequested chatter into yer feed

I had a local pub unfollow me even though I read their updates all the time. I thought, you know, I don't want to follow them anymore either. But when i went to their profile page, I realized that I had never followed them in first place -- it was just one guy I know retweeting practically every tweet by the pub.

Can you hide accounts you don't follow like realDonaldTrump? Good grief.

I really like how twitter has taught me to reconstruct stories backwards. like when I'm catching up on my feed and somebody's tweeted a 10 tweet long story or treatise and I have to read it backwards. that's great

pplains, you can turn off retweets for individual users

I held out forever but I created a twitter account just to follow the bloggers I read cause I was missing out on all of their arguments w/ each other

I only read it on the subway. it's like junk food reading.

a dude with severe boundary issues who pretends to be a pyramid?

lol i just unfollowed this guy yesterday

I think it took me so long to get into twitter because I couldn't find anybody good to follow. then I found 'weird twitter' and it was a bunch of people who also grew up playing pokemon in middle school and I was like fuck yeah

then I found 'weird twitter' reddit and it was a bunch of people who also grew up playing pokemon in middle school and I was like fuck yeah

yeah but those were the dudes who wouldn't even trade u a poliwag. nobody wanted to hang out with those dudes.

My feed consists almost entirely of basketball junkies with a small assortment of brooklyn internet media types. It works for me.

Woah how do u unfollow someone's retweets?

I really like how twitter has taught me to reconstruct stories backwards. like when I'm catching up on my feed and somebody's tweeted a 10 tweet long story or treatise and I have to read it backwards. that's great

Aside from my other complaints, this is why I can't get on with Twitter. I don't want to have to check it constantly just to keep up and have some semblance of context.

Woah how do u unfollow someone's retweets?

If you block someone they won't show up in retweets. If you go to a user's page you can turn off stuff they retweet.

that ask a woman shit looks gross as fuck

"ask a woman," do we really need a forum for this

tell me about yr boobs x 100000

"ask a woman," do we really need a forum for this

― purp (roxymuzak), Friday, February 22, 2013 12:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would read an ask frogbs forum ftr

http://www.reddit.com/r/treessuckingonthings

^^^ may singlehandedly justify reddit's existence

Reading this right now

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18yfd0/i_am_a_native_american_social_worker_working_on_a/

guys hang on, do vaginas have teeth or not
this could change everything

So HOOS linked to this article about Mensrights bros and nice guys of Okcupid on twitter, and the real revelation was that there's a meme called Fiona Friendzone (or Friendzone Fiona) and the picture of the meme is of our girl stockphoto female student.jpeg. I'd link to it but I'm not on my computer.

So she's spawned two memes now.

those fiends

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/187428-friend-zone-fiona

wheres yr backpack girl

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/187/433/Screen-shot-2011-08-17-at-1.38.56-PM.png

honestly reddit shes out of yr league

def

but hey reddit, at least you have a friend now to whom you can ask all those "what signals do you give off to a guy who's creepy" questions.

trees sucking on things A+

Possible reason why all this friendzone shit is so creepy number 1 million: you very rarely get the sense that the guy who complains about being friendzoned actually, in any way, could be said to 'love' the girl in question. He's essentially making a legal argument about how much he may have expended on driving trips or gifts, what signals the girl might have sent, what they might reasonably have been construed to mean, and how much sexual attention he is therefore entitled to.

It's like listening to someone discussing a dispute between two businesses or about an extension to a house. I wonder if it has something to do with 'litigation culture', if that's a thing.

Not that the guy being in love, or 'in love', or whatever, would suddenly make everything okay. It's more the complete absence of emotion in the 'friendzone' discourse adding an extra level of awful

it's the very definition of patriarchy in some ways. Women as exclusively sexual property.

it's capitalism, man

everything has an exchange value

dozen roses delivered to you at the office = one blowjob

waiter, this coke you brought me, it has too much ice and not enough coke. don't you know that I am furnishing your salary. I am taking this out of your tip. fuck you and die.

feel like oh so scandalized reactions to pua culture from men are always a little the lady doth protest too much.

Because PUA culture promotes a load of horrible shit that's already there in your head if you're a man?

I can totally see myself thinking along the lines of 'I am owed' whatever, 'I need to use whatever trick', but then I can also see myself getting to the point where I'd, I don't know, physically attack an enemy, the point is not doing it and not getting into a culture that unlocks shitty potential

*re: relationships

case closed

hey now no need to be essentialist

nobody has the potential for this shit, it's all acquired, no need to give yourself a crutch

the point is to learn how to think about yourself and others completely differently, with communication honesty and respect in the mix and maybe see a therapist.

I meant 'see myself' in quite a distant sense there

Notion of X service meriting Y sexual response/X social, linguistic 'signal' having Y significance, and this signification being static, is still totally weird

thing about the "friendzone" is that it's usually the result of a creepy manipulative guy not making his intentions clear and this not having to face the consequences of those intentions. It's like when people go on "dates" without either being sure it's a date. Plausible deniability.