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.
My daily routine: Get up, Be brilliant, Go back to bed, Repeat.
I can’t help but notice that ‘awesome’ ends in ‘me.’
I am not afraid..I was born to do this.
Pay attention to your inner voice. Don’t override that voice – it’s who you really are.
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
Someday, there’s going to be an updated version of me.
I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I think I’ll make some more!
I’m just human, I have weakness, I make mistakes and I experience sadness; But I learn from all these things to make me a better person.
Story of my life: Searching for perfection, but it’s always avoiding me.
Surround yourself with makeup, not negativity.
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
Always look on the bright side of life. –Monty Python
I have not failed..my success just postponed for some time.
I was born intelligent, but education ruined me.
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened. -Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t look for miracles. YOU yourself are the miracle. -Henry Miller
Living my life in my style.
You are who you are when nobody’s watching. -Stephen Fry
Sometimes I really do not forgive people, I pretend that all is well.
What others think of me is none of my business.
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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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