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.
Life is better when you’re smiling.
I’m not lazy, I’m just on my energy saving mode.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass..it’s about learning to dance in the rain!
I have not failed..my success just postponed for some time.
It’s not your job to like me. It’s mine.
You can let your smile change people, but don’t let people change your smile
Enjoy the little things in life. For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
Admit it. Life would be so boring without me!
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. -John Mason
A rose can never be sunflower. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Who I am? That’s a secret.
I have born to be true, not to be perfect.
The best of me is yet to come.
Say what you feel. It’s not being rude, it’s called being real.
I’m actually not funny, I’m just mean and people think I’m joking.
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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.
If you find yourself responding to something on Social Media, then pause, ask yourself "who am I talking to?". Then close the window and do something else.
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