A collection of tweets generously prepared and shared by Julia Evans for her Twitter memes challenge. While looking through them, I was struck by just how vacuous they are, yet in the context of Twitter's pages and apps, they seem to form the illusion of something more. Okay, not a lot more, but enough to keep us tap-tap tapping.
So, here is a random selection in all their inane glory. They have been partially sanitised, but there are still some words and ideas that could offend, so it's probably safer to say:
Warning - may contain strong language!
You have 20 friends.
I respect those who respect me and forget those who forget me. Simple as that.
I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye.
Have more than you show and speak less than you know.
I want to restart my life, do you have the reset code?
Smile is nothing like “I’m just happy”
Believe in yourself and you can do unbelievable things.
Don’t look for miracles. YOU yourself are the miracle. -Henry Miller
I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
If time is money I am running out of time.
Google can’t search me because I am on Facebook
I’m nobody’s second option. Better you either CHOOSE me, or you lose me.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass..it’s about learning to dance in the rain!
I’m not weird, I’m just cooler than you.
I was born intelligent, but education ruined me.
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
You are who you are when nobody’s watching. -Stephen Fry
I have born to be true, not to be perfect.
I wouldn’t describe myself as a master of anything.
Don’t follow me because I don’t even know where I’m going.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein
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Some links and thoughts to fill this otherwise empty space.
textfiles.com: the dark ages, long before the TwitBooks. indieweb: a sort of D-Flip-Flop of HN. ledgerofharms: bunch of killjoys telling us how bad the web is. betterinternet: the cheery ages. kids@google: to be fair, Rumpelstiltskin & the Pied Piper were probably worse. Fear Of Missing Out: one reason to be hooked.Search, browse, read, and share.
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