why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Actually, this reminds me that during college, H (who is Israeli) actually did live in a house with a turkish muslim, a sikh who was dating a white american who converted to islam, and two white people from florida who turned out to have white supremacist leanings and listened to nazi skinhead punk. Unfortunately, some of them were assholes and they did not all laugh, drink coffee and become good friends, except for H and the Turkish Muslim.

H and the Turkish Muslim - Monday at 8:00pm on NBC

A muslim, a jew, a christian, a pagan and Raffaele Sollecito all walk into a coffee shop

I am sure I've posted things from her before but my oldest friend who I've known since practically birth leaves for posting shit like this. It is not an exaggeration when I say she will often post around 20+ of these types of things a day. I was recently the lucky recipient of this beaut.

http://i57.tinypic.com/dq3t79.jpg

1) I'm pretty sure that creepy ass doll is an orangutan reborn (http://www.reborns.com/) which instantly makes it horrifying.
2) WHY IS THIS THING TALKING ABOUT US DYING?!

:(

there's a guy who works here who posts to FB perhaps 30-40 times a day (i wouldn't know for certain, since i've long since hidden his posts and only see them when other "friends" comment on them) --most of them either macros or links to articles i suspect he hasn't even fully read himself -- and still routinely complains about not having enough time to get work done, etc. etc. i feel like the little facebook "hand w/ thumbs-up" icon should reach out of his computer monitor and slap some sense into him.

Is he single? I think I know his soulmate!

my first post should have read that she "lives for posting" . . . rather than "leaves for" posting etc.

wtf is that "reborn" stuff?

hoo boy, careful what you ask about

hahahahaha

it's horrifying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll

Also: Real Dolls v. Reborns: Who are creepier men who love fake ladies or women who love fake babies?

(I would like to retract my post from 2009 on that thread in which I stated that the orang utan reborns were OK. They're not. They're creepy too.)

jesus

I do feel really sad for the women in a lot of ways but it's also so strange and creepy and very unsettling. On that thread there's a link to a fake birth video.

my god that stuff is so sad

Yeah. I think I find it hard to understand the women who have kids still at home yet still play with the dolls. I can almost understand a women who never had but wanted kids or one whose adult children are not at home (almost) but the ones who have toddlers in one room and yet are dressing up and playing with their hyper realistic newborn dolls in the next? That I don't get.

fantasy children are more tractable and undemanding than real children

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5wxfsaN0F1rxlmf0o1_500.gif
^posted on facebook but also applicable to current conversation

is your friend a cat?

http://i.imgur.com/vdLE8dJ.gif?noredirect

you can very very easily friend ppl and then basically disappear them.

― balls, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how? i guess i am not very FB savvy

go to the "friend's" fb page and there should be a drop-down near the top saying "following", pull that down and select "unfollow"

at this point I think I have more fb friends that I don't follow than ones that I do

the only risk in this strategy being that they post some major life event on fb and then when you see them you say "hey, how's things" and they're like "didn't you know"

Lol I've totally done that. If you didn't only post competition entries and statuses about 'cheeky drinks' then maybe I'd give a shit

This can also lead to situations where the FB friend outright *dies* without you knowing.

Had one friend die of cancer three years ago and family didn't convert page to Tribute page (as most people don't know that's an option).

Then her b'day arrived and she got several happy b'day wishes on FB from casual FB friends that actually didn't know she had died. Eerie as hell.

(Not that I'm saying "don't hide people" cos I do that a lot...just that the scenario above a weird byproduct of social media.)

if you just read the left side of this it makes total sense.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 6:43 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yo ... scott ... uh

x-post: That happened to me as well, though I hadn't unfollowed him, I just didn't notice he died. Just saw it was his birthday, thought 'oh yeah, we studied together, wonder how he's doing', went to his page and the first post is his widow talking about how much she still misses him. A sudden stroke, not even forty, newborn kid. Horrifying.

talk about fighting a losing battle
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11156416_10153235471569114_548968719945168837_n.jpg?oh=6bb6a4da5943d95c847b794fdf65505d&oe=56C601DE

The Judor Luton

Why does the Judol Jutol care?

xpost TImING! damen

similar to the one upthread but a new level of WTF

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/45/7e/94/457e949f506209ab05902e8c42d6296b.jpg

yes, if you think about how many historic documents we all encounter on a day-to-day basis it's truly shocking that this is even up for debate

https://earlyamericanists.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/simpsons_cursive.jpg

https://fbcdn-photos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/s526x395/12107137_999924776737104_1393120469314498429_n.jpg?oh=f552a555968046999ef3952677524f68&oe=56D09D8D&__gda__=1455297235_9f3424df8ccc8747317f7ded2183162b

hah yes

http://i61.tinypic.com/2isvziv.jpg

No. People say you post too much repetitive, useless, idiotic crap about politics and religion.

the serious man of facebook

sharing life-changing GIF memes one at a time

http://i.imgur.com/6efxnir.png

Friend's fiance has started writing for atheistrepublic.com and reposting all of their awful articles and memes and it's getting real tough to not troll him

Watched a friend of mine who started as a Nü Atheist (hey, he has a unique musical talent) go through Islamaphobia into full-on post-Libertarian Naziism, and he was kind enough to document his journey through smarmy Facebook memes. The future sux.

kinda not down with iatee's being posted to ILX. totally get the point of doing so, mind you, but...

Yeah that's p much hate speech.

Not by iatee obv

To avoid the faux pas of missing a FB death, you can unfollow people apart from 'major life events'. I'm not friends with many people who post things that are truly infra digital, which I attribute to being careful with additions in the first place.

New Life Event: Head Cut Off

http://i.imgur.com/E4pPSQA.jpg

so true

you're way too difficult, girl; that's why it'll never wort

pretty sure that's an illegal sleeper hold

"Bird, thou never wort"