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.
When life gets you down do you know what you’ve gotta do? Just Keep Swimming!
No one is perfect that’s why pencils have erasers.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Giving up is always an option, but it’s never my choice.
Story of my life: Searching for perfection, but it’s always avoiding me.
I believe that failure should be an option.
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
I’m not weird, I’m just cooler than you.
I don’t like to follow, I like being followed.
I’m tired with this day, I need a new one.
I am who I am your approval isn’t needed.
Enjoy the little things in life. For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
Don’t judge me, you don’t know my story.
Living my life in my style.
You are who you are when nobody’s watching. -Stephen Fry
I speak less because I know there are very few who likes to listen.
If you can dream it you can do it. -Walt Disney
Don’t wait for the perfect moment take the moment and make it perfect.
When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true – MICHAEL JACKSON.
The best of me is yet to come.
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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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