v funny that Time magazine is reporting on the latest buzz on fb. the viral nature of this "25 things" meme is pretty insane. maybe Time is hungry for a little of that pg view action so they thought they would jump in. trouble is, who reads Time anymore(?).
25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You
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#22I took a bit of a more unorthodox approach when I got tagged. I figure it's better to make notes worth reading: http://unalone.tumblr.com/post/75897218/continuing-my-facebo... Most people aren't funny, they aren't insightful, and they share way too much. Facebook is a loose social network; a "friend" on Facebook might translate to someone you'd barely recognize in real life. This is a problem inherent with any group.…
My opinion of Time and Newsweek has been consistently low for about 15 years. When I was in high school, I thought they were "serious" newsweeklies. I went so far as to keep a crate of them my library was discarding, with some vague idea of having them around for 'future reference' (mind you this was pre-web). Then, sometime in college, I picked one up and realized that it was essentially just a printed version of TV…
Very possibly - my time frame is junior year high school to freshman year college. :-)
Though Newsweek didn't use to have a "humiliated people of the week" column, and "conventional wisdom watch" used to seem interesting rather than just sniping. And I did like the quotes of the week page.
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#23Has every sentence on Time site have a suggested link???? Some arent even related to the article. What annoyance!. The article??? oh, a rant as this comment. (at least this one is shorter)
I couldn't decide if it was quaint or annoying. When these dead tree magazine/paper types figure out that hyperlinks can go to other servers we're going to enter a whole new age.
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#24I just hope that guy who tears gummy bears limb from limb and then eats the heads last isn't a coworker.
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#25Yet another article that complains about Facebook or something on Facebook ... that has a button on bottom to post the article on Facebook.
I hate facebook!
Press here to post this message on facebook!
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#26Oh no, people are having fun on the internet! Quick, somebody write an article on time.com and stop them! If people enjoy sharing random things about themselves, then let them be. I personally think the 25 Things fad, while maybe a bit 'lame', is interesting. It allows me to feed the narcissistic side of myself, while learning random things about my friends. The horror.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? This counts as journalism these days? No, but it counts as selling eyeballs to advertisers, which is the business Time is in. It's the same business all magazines are in.
The sad thing is I found the list far more interesting than the article. Hint: If your going to rant about something as a waste of time don't let it upstage you're job.
Yeah, the journo didn't show any hint of clever/snide/haute/arrogant/dry/slapstick humor.
Capote. Sedaris. Darling. Sweetie. Patsy, darling.
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#28Give me a break. If you don't want to read 25 things about your friends, don't read them! I'll echo harpastum saying the most ridiculous thing about this is that it made it to the front page of TIME. What will the topic of the author's next article be: the viral narcissism of "about you" email chain letters? That's SO 1998.
As much as I used to hate those chain letters I mentioned above, I surprised myself and took part in the 25 things meme on Facebook. I actually found it pretty edifying. I wrote some things I didn't realize I was going through at the time and learned some things I didn't know about my friends.
Did I need Facebook to do this exercise? No. But the fact that Facebook facilitated it is far from "stupid," as the author suggests it is.
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#29"This recent bout of viral narcissism has sent roughly 800,000 hours of worktime productivity down the drain...But it's just so stupid...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've finally found something more stupid than Twitter." I think the only thing worse than sharing mundane details about yourself for the world to see is to be the TIME writer that has sunk so low as to whine about it in a front-page article (yes,…
Really? This counts as journalism these days? No, but it counts as selling eyeballs to advertisers, which is the business Time is in. It's the same business all magazines are in.
And "25 things" is great for eyeballs.
My 25 things post on my blog has ended up #2 in Google for "25 things about me" and I am getting 200 or so visits a day to that post.
Now, I am not monetizing my blog and don't gain anything from the traffic, but it is interesting to see how much attention this meme is getting all of the sudden. Especially since it is nothing new.
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#30I can't believe how much I enjoyed reading the 25 things my friends posted. As time goes on, people lose track of friends, but my friends shared enough for me to remember why they were my friends. Their personalities came out in ways you never see with the boilerplate profiles and status updates.