Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

Right. My point is super-convoluted now. I can see how it would be really difficult to understand why I think working through one's feelings of loss by posting a facebook update is retarded--as retarded as posting, "I like cupcakes. Mmmmmm. So yummy!"

Besides, everyone knows one should only mourn on twitter.

TM

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

Posting on a dead wall? You mean posting on the facebook wall of someone who died? Completely different than posting an update that consists of "Freddy, although you died 8 years ago, you remain in my heart always."

I don't mind look at me posts, unless they come 58 times a day. I don't understand why people think they need to update everyone on every single aspect of their lives. No one cares. Facebook is good for clever stuff, photo updates and to keep track of people you don't talk to often. Why do people feel the need to tell everyone what they had for breakfast?

TM

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

Which one of these do you object to? Or both?

Re: Things I have learned from Facebook
 

This post should define you on this board forever.

TM

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

I do it because my life is FASCINATING.:cool:

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

Theory that someone from the future has come back in time to disable the Hadron Collider.







This is not an Onion article.

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

Holy crap. The first (although I would never do it) seems reasonable to me. Someone who has a profile dies and a bunch of their friends and family (many of whom may be in different places) gather at the person's page to express mutual feelings of loss. Okay.

Contrast with a tribute post to someone who died in the past. That seems stupid to me. It feels like an empty, superficial attention-grab. If I died, I'd rather have my friends take a quiet moment to think about a good time we had together than post something shallow on frickin' facebook.

TM

Re: Things I have learned from Facebook
 

"I don't think that word means what you think it means."

Re: Things I have learned from Facebook
 

To give you a further idea of the entertainment value:

His post today expresses shock that Al Gore might be right about Global Warming given the warm weather (bad for duck hunting), so of course his friends post to walk him back from the edge: Al Gore can't be right, there's no global warming.

Welcome to the palinesque!

Re: Things I have learned from Facebook
 

I get sick of classifying whiffs. I really do.

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

I like the updates more than anything else on Facebook. I don't want to post my own pictures there, and I don't particularly want to see other people's pictures, although it's nice that they're there if I do. But I do like seeing status updates, even when I don't understand what they're talking about. There's one person who I've screened because I tired of her incessant, boring posts, no one here of course, but that's the exception rather than the rule. YMMV.

Re: Things I have learned from Facebook
 

No whiff. You are the guy who subjected us to that steaming pile of crap, no matter what its source.

TM

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

Like I said, I don't mind "look at me" posts. I just don't understand the updates that come every two minutes and contain nothing. For example, there is someone in my friends list who has a 1 in 20 interesting update average, but when it's interesting, it's really interesting. And it's a daily fight to keep from deleting her so I don't have to read the 3 scriptures, 1 horoscope cut-and-paste, 3 descriptions of food cravings, 2 aimless, misguided and amorphous political rants, 4 complaints about love life and 6 pointless "tgif"-type posts.

TM

PS-But what I really look forward to from everyone are those quotes that people seize on that they think are so deep. Those really keep me going!

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

When there's a better whipping boy for all things wrong in human nature, people will focus on that. Until then, intitutionalized organized belief in anything fantastic, irrational and preposterous is a fine default target.

Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 

I've ignored at least 1/3 of my friends, most of them from my home town. I should just de-friend them.