FML: Good, Bad, Ugly?
Jeff VanderMeer • April 6th, 2009 @ 9:38 pm • Uncategorized
My stepdaughter Erin clued me in to this site, which includes, for example, this anonymous post:
Today, I went on a date with a guy for the first time. We went to Starbucks and got coffee. We talked for awhile, and we weere joking and having a good time. Suddenly, he put his hand on my stomach and said, “soon, this will be plump with my seed.”
I am laughing at a lot of this even as I’m thinking, “I’ve begun to see Facebook status messages that approximate some of this.” Are we all getting a little too relaxed?
April 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm
wow, that is some crazy stuff… I consider myself quite techno-savvy but I have really missed the boat on the whole social media “revolution”. Social media, to me, is posting random crap to my twitter account. And here I quote from the FML site:
“Today, I was going to have sex with my hispanic boyfriend. I wanted to turn him on, so I asked my friend how to say “fuck me” in Spanish. She claimed it was “pollo frito”. I then proceeded to have sex, constantly screaming pollo frito for an hour. I later realized I was screaming “fried chicken.” FML”
Yee-haw!
April 6, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I have to say that’s really creepy. If I was on a date with a guy and he said something like that, it’d be over unless it was really obvious he was kidding. And even then, I’d really have to wonder.
April 6, 2009 at 10:30 pm
It’s not so much the social sites as it is the fact that some statements are too funny to resist sharing. I remember a number of weird statements like this one in real life, but it never occurred to me to tell anyone about it.
April 7, 2009 at 12:17 am
Too relaxed in our sharing our every waking thought or action? Hells yes we are.
I’m an in-store ‘Geek Squad’ agent. I see so much garbage and deal with so many very stressed-out people, because of their addiction to technology. They’re stressed because they can’t text or chat every few seconds. So I gave up my cell phone. I have a telephone with an answering machine at home. I remember the ‘good ‘ol days’ when we didn’t even have answering machines. I’m fine without knowing what everyone (including my family) is doing every few minutes (and vice versa).
“Dude I called and called you but you didn’t answer.”
“Did you leave a message?” (knowing that they didn’t… usually).
“Nah. You should get a cell phone. I could send you some really funny stuff.”
“Nope. So, why’d ya call? Did you need me? We’re you wanting to come over? Did you want to go somewhere? Is everything okay?”
“Nah. Everything’s fine. Just wanted to see what you were doing.”
“Well, I can tell you what I wasn’t doing.”
April 7, 2009 at 12:25 am
the worst is when your roommate calls you at nine in the morning to see “what you’re doing” and they are calling from their bedroom on the other side of the house.
yep, this goes in the ‘ugly’ category. can we not live IRL any longer???
:D
April 7, 2009 at 5:05 am
Hilarious! Sort of a Twitter/Post Secret mashup. Of course I Facebooked it. Does this make me a new media douchebag? I hope not.
April 7, 2009 at 6:15 am
Even if some of the entries in FML are invented (and I’m sure many are), that site is a riot.
You should also check out the Overheard series of blogs, like http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/
April 7, 2009 at 7:30 am
Marty: I hear ya. I thought I’d lost my cell phone the other day and my first thought was, “Oh good.” But this consolidation thing I’m hoping is about simplification. No longer feel any compulsion to visit Twitter but have presence there for anyone who cares. Hopefully won’t be on Facebook as much anymore, but the blog posts will link up there. I dunno. My other thought is that, like you more or less say, we’re creating a kind of irrelevancy and a continued idea of the self-importance of every individual on the planet.
April 7, 2009 at 8:34 am
Twitter for all the emo kids and Cosmo subscribers, is it? If these kids spent half as much time pursuing a hobby or reading a good book, then we wouldn’t have to worry about the [url=http://www.watoday.com.au/world/internet-to-be-full-by-2012-20090401-9iuv.html]internet being full by 2012[/url]
April 7, 2009 at 10:32 am
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April 7, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Also, some advice: If you have a hard drive full of pictures and information, please, please get yourself an external drive and back that stuff up (and remember externals can and will go south too). And please, please PRINT those pictures and put them in a photo album for posterity. Print those important docs too. :)
April 7, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Sorry, thought that link would work :oP
April 7, 2009 at 7:08 pm
““soon, this will be plump with my seed.â€
LOL
Sounds like something Conan would say. The Barbarian, not O’Brian
May 9, 2009 at 12:18 pm
FML is funny, but I have some issues with them. The admins, and possibly the owner is attacking a similar site http://www.fwhyme.com calling the owners of FWM “stupid”, and “big babies” (I know, they could of done much better than that, they’re immature), and accusing them of ripping off FML.
FML has no right to make any accusations. If you look at Jinxed.org, FML ripped them off, and they can’t say Jinxed copied them because Jinxed was created way before their french domain, and FML was even registered.
So why can’t http://www.fwhyme.com pull a move on them like what they did to Jinxed?
They are afraid because up until they learned of fwhyme.com they didn’t have any competition.