[jon boy]

tilt head to one side, slight down angle on camera, take pic, repeat, repeat, repeat.

[floatingslowly]

yes, sir. I'll get right on that.

[jon boy]

yes or you will get the hose again. wont he precious?

[davenotdead]

i thought myspace started this

[Rob Instigator]

facebook is like checking in with your mom when you are a teen and letting her know whee you will be later


myspace is like calling your young cousin and asking what they are up to and having them talk your ear off for hours about every inanity that came accross their litte head.

[terriblecanyons]

Is SYG somewhere between facebook and myspace y/n?

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by terriblecanyons

Is SYG somewhere between facebook and myspace y/n?

interesting point. it has similarities to both but more disturbed people coming here than the other two.

[floatingslowly]

^^^ I find that fact disturbing.

I am disturbing

I don't think that it's only facebook that has these sort of characteristics on the pictures posted. Most people who inundate the internet with their faces and every move generally end up looking dull 'cause, like it or not, not many people can take interesting pictures of themselves. This has nothing to do with the way you look - one can't always help that - it's just that the majority of people lack any sense of style or a rudimantary grasp of aesthetics. Apart from Glice, obviously, he is a sexy transexual tiger.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Apart from Glice, obviously, he is a sexy transexual tiger.

I'm retiring the transexual tiger look and going for the lapsed Haredi pipe-smoker. Much more now, y'know?

[davenotdead]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I don't think that it's only facebook that has these sort of characteristics on the pictures posted. Most people who inundate the internet with their faces and every move generally end up looking dull 'cause, like it or not, not many people can take interesting pictures of themselves. This has nothing to do with the way you look - one can't always help that - it's just that the majority of people lack any sense of style or a rudimantary grasp of aesthetics. Apart from Glice, obviously, he is a sexy transexual tiger.

quoted for truth

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I don't think that it's only facebook that has these sort of characteristics on the pictures posted. Most people who inundate the internet with their faces and every move generally end up looking dull 'cause, like it or not, not many people can take interesting pictures of themselves. This has nothing to do with the way you look - one can't always help that - it's just that the majority of people lack any sense of style or a rudimantary grasp of aesthetics. Apart from Glice, obviously, he is a sexy transexual tiger.

It's the status updates that do my head in. "[X] is going for take away!!!" "[X] is wondering when work is going to be over!!!!!!!". We all know that everyone's life is boring, but there seems to be this feeling that advertising it somehow makes it less insipid.

[jon boy]

how many people also describe their status as 'is'? dave is, jon is etc.

[greedrex]

there are more trolls on SYG than on myspace, facebook and virb altogether.

[floatingslowly]

floatingslowly is not in yr extended network.

Originally Posted by Glice

It's the status updates that do my head in. "[X] is going for take away!!!" "[X] is wondering when work is going to be over!!!!!!!". We all know that everyone's life is boring, but there seems to be this feeling that advertising it somehow makes it less insipid.

Yeah, the status thing is often hilarious for all the wrong reasons. The fact that it's put up there on the page like you have anything seriously interesting to say other than you are eating a packet of crisps and soon taking a shit, while you think of the porn magazine that you've found on the street, is weird in itself. I don't know why anyone would take these things so seriously. And some people really do, 'cause a couple of times some 'virtual friends' deleted me from their list of gay buddies for commenting on their status in a manner that they thought as being anything other than the light-hearted humorous banter that makes these networking sites sometimes interesting.

[Rob Instigator]

I put
"Rob Instigator ain't catchin' mad jacks" on my status thang.

[This Is Not Here]

I only joined facebook about two weeks ago, after putting off getting one for some time. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, certainly not nearly as bad as Myspace. But do I need to be informed when a girl I went to school with three years ago comments on the photograph of someone I have never met before?

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Yeah, the status thing is often hilarious for all the wrong reasons. The fact that it's put up there on the page like you have anything seriously interesting to say other than you are eating a packet of crisps and soon taking a shit, while you think of the porn magazine that you've found on the street, is weird in itself. I don't know why anyone would take these things so seriously. And some people really do, 'cause a couple of times some 'virtual friends' deleted me from their list of gay buddies for commenting on their status in a manner that they thought as being anything other than the light-hearted humorous banter that makes these networking sites sometimes interesting.

I once got into a real-world argument about why I deleted all of the wall posts I had that weren't insults directed squarely at me. I've laid down a rule for drinking - anyone caught mentioning facebook within the first four rounds must get the next one. It's much, much worse in London for this, I note. It's the first conversation for a great many people. Twatlore.