In the days before Yahoo! acquired Egroups, there was Yahoo! Clubs. Some of them are for rather esoteric interests like "Why are zippers marked with YKK?" or "Put a stop against children eating paste" (which are real clubs I belonged to, btw). Now, I'm seeing a resurgence of these common interest group in Facebook fan pages.
It's another growing internet meme: Come up with a statement other people could relate to. Create a fan page for said interest. Wait for fans to link your page to their profiles. And now you have fan pages for all sorts of stuff. One of my favorite is "Stop hitting us with those f*cking pillows" which claims they even have their own anti-fan site.
I'm too lazy to create and maintain a fan site (actually I am maintaining one for my website); but if I were to create some more, I'll use some of these:
- Leave your kids at home if you can't stop them from screaming in public places.
- Don't use too many exclamation points! Is your heart palpitating!! Maybe you ought to cut down on your coffee!!!
- People, for the love of Dog, learn how to use the ATM efficiently.
- Just because I said people ought to be whacked in the head for their mistakes doesn't mean I am serious about it. Learn to spot a joke, boyo. Ya ya ya.
- Don't just say "Kudos!" when you wanted to congratulate someone. Make an effort to write a decent sentence.
- It's insulting to people when you reply to messages with "K"; unless that's really what you're after.
- I know you love that song, but don't play it in a bleedin' loop every bleedin' day. An MP3 player with 500+ songs and you can't come up with a decent playlist?
- The caller at the other end of the phone could hear you shouting; will you act like a civilized human being and PIPE DOWN A LITTLE? Thank you.
- No, seriously,,, multiple commas are not used,,, as ellipses,,,,
- Give "basically" a rest. Better yet, stop using pointless adverbs when beginning your sentences.
- Lightly touching my bum does not pass as effective security check.
I realized all of these could be made into individual Twitter broadcasts. Which proves how people could adopt and distill their ire into sentences with 140 characters or less. But that's for another entry, I think.
1 comment:
I think there's a group for people hating 'K' but what I'm really waiting for is Leave your kids at home if you can't stop them from screaming in public places. Ugh.
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