iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

didn't know you were into saw *updates notes*

subsequently im pretty much an internet hermit wrt social media generally (save a LinkedIn that is at least a yr out of date by last accounting) so my op may not hold much water here

hey how is this workin out if you don't mind my asking? I have some anxiety over this stuff, I probably can't ever hermit out completely because FB's pretty valuable when I'm away from home a lot & other social media stuff is part of my work, but I'm curious, because I have been thinking of social media time as this weird SOMA state or something, not gratifying but not irritating enough to spend less time on

i just unhid everyone tonight for some reason! well, not everyone...

it's an experiment in terror.

i spend the majority of my free/bored at work internet time on one facebook group now and it's kinda everything i ever wanted from interactive internet. don't have to bug my regular facebook friends or people here half as much with pictures of records and record talk. you're welcome! i ignore regular facebook pretty good. but some of my best real life pals are on there so it's worth it for that.

just went on fb for the first time in like a month and so much stuff is going on like ppl getting married and parents retiring and ilx0rs/their babies being cuet

kinda feel like there is a disconnect and i am on the wrong side (which isn't necessarily because i'm old, although that helps). in days of yore it was maybe ppls' duty to let their friends know what was going on? and now it's ppls' duty to monitor their friends' feeds?

i dunno -- i am ever-increasingly isolated in general, but i'd prefer friends communicated with me directly via any number of means rather than assuming that i follow their internet trails

fb is bizarre now--I used to get status updates from friends in my feed, but now all I see are outrage links

outrageous

like Jem and the Holograms

showtime (platform) synergy

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2015/05/19/an_interview_with_evan_arnold_who_played_leonard_in_the_final_episode_of/leonard_mad_men.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png

Cheer up, Leonard. Forty years from now, the fridge door will never close. Every minute of every hour of every day, you'll get reminders of how wonderful everyone's life out there is. Unless you unplug the fridge altogether, which is easier said than done.

https://www.facebook.com/ShutUpImStillTalking/photos_stream

100% essential reading imo, especially if you work in the content mines

https://medium.com/message/god-tier-facebook-moms-run-the-meme-game-1e56ef0d31ec

my exposure to post-memes has been so marginal the the post-post-memes registered around the same time

But Foul Bachelor Frog and Socially Awkward Penguin are presented as first-person characters for for the reader to identify with. FBF is decidedly male (he’s constantly told to “blast it with piss”)

Some good observations in there, could maybe take a few more steps -- the spiritual ancestors being funny t-shirts and posters (and coozies, and bumper stickers, and...) is right on, but i would also have to add funny email forwards/signature quotes. Those probably pre-hashed all of the punchlines and sentiments of these things ages ago; in turn they're descended from chain letters and especially newspaper columns. It would be interesting to get a little more precise (as they try to do with the straight white male nerd type) w/r/t the users and uses of those forms of communication.

The concluding hypothesis - that these things are popular because they are inoffensive and easily shared with a friends-family-coworkers set like Facebook - could thus get a bit more grounded. People in different places in their life use Facebook in different ways. My aunt, who shares the most of these kind of things of anyone I know, is linked up on Facebook primarily to other family members and her strong local community of other 75+-year-olds. She particularly likes to share things about libraries and librarians, since she's spent some time as a librarian, etc. I suspect that a 40-year-old desk worker's social network is different, and the shared sentiments too, even though the form of Ye Olde Cartoon Shirt/Maxine Cartoon appears the same. Lumping all these together kind of limits the analysis, though I do get that the article is more of a 'first step' in articulating the lines between these and other memes. That said, I don't see much sense in calling them "post-memes" - they seem pretty memetic to me and in the long run of history, it's more likely we'll see the 4chan type memes as an obscure early form of the type before it became popularized.

a friend tells me that in the US people are being offered the chance to x-fer money via FB chat !?

is that for real ?

(said friend falls for all sorts of wind-ups ..)

it's real

bloody hell.

there is no way i would ever trust FB with that information.

I haven't signed up but I'd imagine they use a third-party payment processor

I have ignored it despite the fact I apparently know the project lead? idk hope it's doing well

i've used it, its fine

idk

not a third party processer actually afaict, no option to link to paypal or anything

you can also do this through gmail/gchat iirc?

I don't see much sense in calling them "post-memes" - they seem pretty memetic to me and in the long run of history, it's more likely we'll see the 4chan type memes as an obscure early form of the type before it became popularized.

― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Thursday, July 9, 2015 4:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i think this is otm and beyond that "post-post-memes" is irredeemably stupid

re money x-fers :

no option in uk based gmail/gchat as far as i can tell.

yet.

i actually encountered many maoist minion macros before i encountered my first real minion macro but my FB is a weird tumblr/FB hybrid with a lot of people posting deep in-jokes under pseudonyms as a matter of course so that sort of made sense to me

missed opportunity for meowist memes

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Found this event posting that showed up on my wall the other day kind of laughable. It's a Fast Times/Clueless double-bill at a local rep house in August. There are currently 906 people who are going. The theatre holds 200-250, and on the night of the screening it'll be me and 40 other people. Great way to apprise the world of all the great stuff you'll be attending without ever having to show up for any of it.

tbf if there were free booze they'd all show up & then some

xp plenty of ppl, me included, will "join" events as a way to have all their social/cultural options on the event calendar and then choose what to actually go to based on that short-list.

best bit is when it announces "[Bananaman Begins] went to [some shit]" and is nearly always incorrect.

I find it particularly annoying when ppl put themselves down as attending things when they're not even in the same country as the event

funny, i find it particularly annoying when people invite me to events on different continents from the one i live on

If people unfollow me, and never message me on IM, then i'd rather they just sent an IM saying that as they never see any of my posts or chat to me then they will unfriend me and do so.
But people never have the honesty or guts to do that so they either unfriend you without warning or just keep you unfollowed.

u ok hun?

lol

was just on offshoot of an earlier fb post i made on the subject

i have no idea if anyone has ever unfollowed me

People are always unfriending me. I never usually notice until they crop up in "people you may know" lists and I'm like "aren't they already my friend?" and it turns out they aren't any more. Oh well.

"always" = about three people, I think.

there's someone on my local neighbourhood thread who occasionally posts completely off-topic "jokey" image shitposts that i find actually super charming because she's just this nice lady from the neighbourhood who's trying to brighten everyone's day. someone decided to drop into the comments and be a facebook cop today so i just responded with "[dude's name], facebook cop" (note: this hood doesn't much care for cops btw) and i ahve now decided that saying "[person's name], facebook cop" is my new favourite thing to write

does everyone get lyft/uber spambots posting to public events pages where you are?

annoying af

particularly when its an event i'm putting on and people ask me when we 'partnered' with lyft or whatever and i just want to shrink into a higgs-boson

god facebook sucks so fucking bad

i don't know why i even go to this site anymore

I avoided it for a couple days, got drawn into a discussion on abortion and healthcare that ended up with me peacing out after some guy with his head up his ass took over the conversation

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6376

iyo did facebook ruin the meaternet

I've just fell victim to the real-name policy. Facebook wants proof of my name, but the name I use on social media is not the name I was born with and I was really quite happy with that. It's so easy to think, "well it's just Facebook, it doesn't matter" but I've already had texts from people (OK, my boyfriend and my mother) wondering what happened to me, plus it's stopping me from accessing all the music groups/pages etc I follow.

Wait what real-name policy

Facebook insists people register under their assigned birth names like i do