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 life my rules love me or reject me, I don’t care.
I am just a girl looking for my heart.
What others think of me is none of my business.
I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.
Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
I believe in romance. I have a fierce to love and be loved.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Dip me in chocolate and call me dessert.
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened. -Theodore Roosevelt
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
I have born to be true, not to be perfect.
If you can dream it you can do it. -Walt Disney
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it.
I’m not lazy. Someone just stole my motivation
Surround yourself with makeup, not negativity.
I wish I could donate my body fat to those in need.
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. -Lao Tzu
Make life fun, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
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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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