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.
If you can dream it you can do it. -Walt Disney
You are who you are when nobody’s watching. -Stephen Fry
My life my rules love me or reject me, I don’t care.
Surround yourself with makeup, not negativity.
We are all authors of our life. Unfortunately, we write them in pen so we can’t erase our mistakes.
I have not failed..my success just postponed for some time.
I am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.
I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
When life gets you down do you know what you’ve gotta do? Just Keep Swimming!
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass..it’s about learning to dance in the rain!
I’m not lazy, just relaxed because I am rebooting.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I am just a girl looking for my heart.
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
Enjoy the little things in life. For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
I have born to be true, not to be perfect.
Be yourself; because an original is worth more than a copy.
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
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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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