Facebook: Life… yeah I mean it's like whatever… you know how it is… anyway might be offline for a while, so hit me up on the cell… tell me if you don't have my number, yo…
Twitter: If you don't know about the dog park, I don't know what to tell you, bro. (But srsly if you don't RT I'll sic the glow cloud on you.)
Tumblr: You guys I just saw the new snippet of the new interview for the new preview for the new season of Sherlock and FEELS, THE FEELS, I CANNOT EVEN, if you like it then put a trigger warning on it, but seriously what's up with being an adult I seriously cannot, I cannot even, byeeeeee
Instagram: Just tossed up for funsies a pic of myself where I casually put on a vat of makeup, photoshopped myself skinnier, and applied twelve filters. Off to drinkkkk, lol!
Facebook: Now I see how it really is… it's cool, it's fine… anyway, like I said, going offline… lemme know if you need the cell #
Snapchat: *We apologize; it seems this content has disappeared. But it was naked.*
AIM: Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude everyone using this was a kid in the 90s. Their profiles probably still have creatively colored New Found Glory lyrics.
Youtube Comments: u suk man watever u so uglee diaf
LinkedIn: Are any of us hired yet?
Facebook: I can be bad all by myself… you know how I do… off to do me, offline… if anyone needs it, I'll post my cell number in the comments…
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Rise and Fall of the Facebook Empire
I know, I'm a tad bit premature.
But those of us who were around during Myspace's meteoric rise and inevitable decline know the signs. We were there. We witnessed the day that the strength of sparkly html backgrounds failed.
Myspace was the first, but it was far from the last. And what I find fascinating about social networks is that we've spiralled inward rather than outward. Each platform is more restrictive than the last. Look at the timeline:
1. Myspace
The world's first real taste of what it meant to have online friends. The giddy freedom of Myspace seems unfathomable now. You could pick your own color scheme, background picture, fonts, layout... you could even force everyone to listen to horrible pop music while they visited your profile!
2. Facebook
Over the years I've come to the inescapable conclusion that what Facebook had going for it was exclusivity. You see, in the beginning... oh whatever, you watched The Social Network, you know the story. Mark Zuckerburg created/stole/whatevered the site only for his Ivy league buddies. But then, like the plague, its scope widened to encompass other universities, and then high schools, and then THE WORLD.
3. Twitter
But although Facebook constrained its users to one specific layout, folk got damn wordy. So what do you do? Pop over to Twitter, where its users are restrained to 140 characters. It forces you to get to the point fast.
4. G+
Okay so this BARELY counts as a social media network, but I feel like I need to put it on here because so many of us were forced into it by our poor decisions. Who knew that using gmail and blogger would be so risky? G+ hovers in the background like a Rihanna song that nobody actually likes, but the radio stations insist on playing because they got it in a two for one deal.
5. Snapchat
Nobody over the age of 18 uses this (yet), but practice safe sexting! That is pretty much what I'm getting from this.
Each platform is more restrictive than the last, until we get to Snapchat which is so restrictive that it actually doesn't even let you keep your data (you know, in theory). Compare this to, say, Livejournal, which is even older than Myspace - essentially a simplified website in blog form so easy that anybody could create one. You could pick your own background, profile picture, layout, color scheme... and now, your words and pictures disappear forever in under 10 seconds.
The question really is, where do we go from here? Even smaller? I'm thinking Morse code is about to make a comeback.
But those of us who were around during Myspace's meteoric rise and inevitable decline know the signs. We were there. We witnessed the day that the strength of sparkly html backgrounds failed.
Myspace was the first, but it was far from the last. And what I find fascinating about social networks is that we've spiralled inward rather than outward. Each platform is more restrictive than the last. Look at the timeline:
1. Myspace
The world's first real taste of what it meant to have online friends. The giddy freedom of Myspace seems unfathomable now. You could pick your own color scheme, background picture, fonts, layout... you could even force everyone to listen to horrible pop music while they visited your profile!
2. Facebook
Over the years I've come to the inescapable conclusion that what Facebook had going for it was exclusivity. You see, in the beginning... oh whatever, you watched The Social Network, you know the story. Mark Zuckerburg created/stole/whatevered the site only for his Ivy league buddies. But then, like the plague, its scope widened to encompass other universities, and then high schools, and then THE WORLD.
3. Twitter
But although Facebook constrained its users to one specific layout, folk got damn wordy. So what do you do? Pop over to Twitter, where its users are restrained to 140 characters. It forces you to get to the point fast.
4. G+
Okay so this BARELY counts as a social media network, but I feel like I need to put it on here because so many of us were forced into it by our poor decisions. Who knew that using gmail and blogger would be so risky? G+ hovers in the background like a Rihanna song that nobody actually likes, but the radio stations insist on playing because they got it in a two for one deal.
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| Share what? With who? What are these circles and why do they matter? Messages from who?! |
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| THE HELL IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TAGLINE AND AN INTRO? BRAGGING RIGHTS? WAT? |
Nobody over the age of 18 uses this (yet), but practice safe sexting! That is pretty much what I'm getting from this.
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| Practice safe duckface! |
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| For the love of all that's holy do not google image. |
The question really is, where do we go from here? Even smaller? I'm thinking Morse code is about to make a comeback.
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| It's retro chic! |
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