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.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama
I am just a girl looking for my heart.
I’m actually not funny, I’m just mean and people think I’m joking.
This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it.
I am unique. I am special. I am me.
I am who I am your approval isn’t needed.
I am not PERFECT neither are you....
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Before you judge ME, make sure you’re PERFECT.
Die with memories, not dreams!
Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
Live life, Laugh Loud, Love forever.
Google can’t search me because I am on Facebook
Sometimes you succeed and other times you learn.
Your attitude can hurt me but mine can kill you
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.
Even some of the greatest people in life started out as nothing.
I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye.
Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.
Have more than you show and speak less than you know.
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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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