Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

Yes

I have to say that person has very arbitrary and bizarre values. They are like Mono.

[Syt]

No, it's quite consistent. Everything Republican = pure good. Everything Democrat = pure evil.

[Syt]

[Valmy]

I have to hand it to your family, Syt. They are unbelievably persistent. They just post the same tired shit for years. I think I would tire of this even if somebody was paying me to do it.

[Syt]

Hitting "Share" isn't hard. Hell, I've seen the same memes shared twice within an hour from each other.

[Valmy]

Hitting "Share" isn't hard. Hell, I've seen the same memes shared twice within an hour from each other.

The same unfunny nonsensical memes carrying the same messages over and over again for literally years though.

I don't even get half of them. Are there really black and Asian pride parades going down the street with any regularity? Why are they so annoyed by this non-existent menace?

[frunk]

Why are they so annoyed by this non-existent menace?

Actual menace has inconvenient facts that get in the way.

[DGuller]

I have to hand it to your family, Syt. They are unbelievably persistent. They just post the same tired shit for years. I think I would tire of this even if somebody was paying me to do it.

I really think it's mental illness, or at least a type of addiction.  Obviously some pleasure center activated whenever you see a meme like that, which makes your rational brain shut off, and it seems like with time you need a bigger fix. 

I really hope humanity finds a vaccine against this illness, because social media has been a highly potent new vector of spread.  I think this is probably an even more pressing problem than climate change.

[Berkut]

I have to hand it to your family, Syt. They are unbelievably persistent. They just post the same tired shit for years. I think I would tire of this even if somebody was paying me to do it.

I really think it's mental illness, or at least a type of addiction.  Obviously some pleasure center activated whenever you see a meme like that, which makes your rational brain shut off, and it seems like with time you need a bigger fix. 

I really hope humanity finds a vaccine against this illness, because social media has been a highly potent new vector of spread.  I think this is probably an even more pressing problem than climate change.

A friend of mine, smart guy, posted that meme that has Washington saying something like "When the government takes the rights of citizens to own guns, the government loses the right to govern". I knew that was a bullshit quote, if for no other reason than anyone who knows Washingtons view on the "mob" knows he would never say something like that. Now, the guy who shared the meme isn't some arch conservative or anything, more of your standard 20something libertarian.

So I googled it, and sure enough, he never said that. No quote of him saying anything of the kind exists anywhere.

I point this out to him, and he actually gets pissed off at me. He says basically that he just shared a meme, HE didn't say it, so why was I giving him crap about it?

I was kind of at a loss. I mean, if you share something that isn't true, wouldn't you WANT to know that it wasn't true?

[Razgovory]

I have to hand it to your family, Syt. They are unbelievably persistent. They just post the same tired shit for years. I think I would tire of this even if somebody was paying me to do it.

I really think it's mental illness, or at least a type of addiction.  Obviously some pleasure center activated whenever you see a meme like that, which makes your rational brain shut off, and it seems like with time you need a bigger fix. 

I really hope humanity finds a vaccine against this illness, because social media has been a highly potent new vector of spread.  I think this is probably an even more pressing problem than climate change.

A friend of mine, smart guy, posted that meme that has Washington saying something like "When the government takes the rights of citizens to own guns, the government loses the right to govern". I knew that was a bullshit quote, if for no other reason than anyone who knows Washingtons view on the "mob" knows he would never say something like that. Now, the guy who shared the meme isn't some arch conservative or anything, more of your standard 20something libertarian.

So I googled it, and sure enough, he never said that. No quote of him saying anything of the kind exists anywhere.

I point this out to him, and he actually gets pissed off at me. He says basically that he just shared a meme, HE didn't say it, so why was I giving him crap about it?

I was kind of at a loss. I mean, if you share something that isn't true, wouldn't you WANT to know that it wasn't true?

Nope.  People resent being told they are wrong.  You would think the opposite is true, I mean I know I've reevaluated positions due to new evidence and I have been fooled by stuff on the internet.  I didn't get mad at the people who proved that I got punked, though I got mad at myself for allowing myself to be fooled and resentful toward the people who tricked me, but this appears to be a minority position.

[The Brain]

I have to hand it to your family, Syt. They are unbelievably persistent. They just post the same tired shit for years. I think I would tire of this even if somebody was paying me to do it.

I really think it's mental illness, or at least a type of addiction.  Obviously some pleasure center activated whenever you see a meme like that, which makes your rational brain shut off, and it seems like with time you need a bigger fix. 

I really hope humanity finds a vaccine against this illness, because social media has been a highly potent new vector of spread.  I think this is probably an even more pressing problem than climate change.

A friend of mine, smart guy, posted that meme that has Washington saying something like "When the government takes the rights of citizens to own guns, the government loses the right to govern". I knew that was a bullshit quote, if for no other reason than anyone who knows Washingtons view on the "mob" knows he would never say something like that. Now, the guy who shared the meme isn't some arch conservative or anything, more of your standard 20something libertarian.

So I googled it, and sure enough, he never said that. No quote of him saying anything of the kind exists anywhere.

I point this out to him, and he actually gets pissed off at me. He says basically that he just shared a meme, HE didn't say it, so why was I giving him crap about it?

I was kind of at a loss. I mean, if you share something that isn't true, wouldn't you WANT to know that it wasn't true?

Maybe he didn't like that you hate America.

[grumbler]

Is there any way to derail the train that calls these posters "memes?"  The word "meme" has an actual meaning.  An image with some words associated with it isn't a "meme," or is a mere torrent of words without an image.

[Tamas]

I point this out to him, and he actually gets pissed off at me. He says basically that he just shared a meme, HE didn't say it, so why was I giving him crap about it?

I was kind of at a loss. I mean, if you share something that isn't true, wouldn't you WANT to know that it wasn't true?

Your clinging to concepts like truth truly makes you a relic of a bygone era.

[Razgovory]

Is there any way to derail the train that calls these posters "memes?"  The word "meme" has an actual meaning.  An image with some words associated with it isn't a "meme," or is a mere torrent of words without an image.

They are called "memes" because they evolve as they move from person to person like in the pseudoscience of memes.  Still, I liked it better when we called this "Propaganda".

[Syt]

Is there any way to derail the train that calls these posters "memes?"  The word "meme" has an actual meaning.  An image with some words associated with it isn't a "meme," or is a mere torrent of words without an image.

Merriam Webster defines "meme", among others, as "an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media". I do agree that "amusing" or "interesting" doesn't seem to apply.