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.
Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost.
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.
You are who you are when nobody’s watching. -Stephen Fry
I am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
What others think of me is none of my business.
Enjoy the little things in life. For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
Say what you feel. It’s not being rude, it’s called being real.
It’s not your job to like me. It’s mine.
I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I think I’ll make some more!
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. -Lao Tzu
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama
Life is too short. Don’t waste it reading my Facebook profile.
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best!
I am just a girl looking for my heart.
I’m actually not funny, I’m just mean and people think I’m joking.
A rose can never be sunflower. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Don’t follow me because I don’t even know where I’m going.
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
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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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