Tag: Facebook
Sports and Their Social Media Equivalences
1. Facebook = Baseball: Old people are really into it and think it is way more relevant than it really is, but nobody under 30 is even using it anymore. 2. WhatsApp = Soccer: Everyone in the rest of the world uses it everyday, but nobody in America even knows it exists. 3. Instagram = NBA: Neither looks as good... Read more »
5 (more) Things Hipsters' Love
In case you missed the original “10 Things Hipsters’ Love” post, please check it out as it will get our blog more hits and, unlike hipsters, we aren’t afraid to admit that material things like ” getting more hits” mean something to us. Anyway, here are a few more things our overly self-aware hipster friends cannot live... Read more »
12 Things That Have Never Been Said About Social Media
1. I wish my friends would upload more pics of their food; I’m constantly wondering what it is they’re eating. 2. There is no doubt in my mind that YouTube commenter was popular in middle school. 3. What do you mean you “Opted out” of Facebook’s graph search? Why? 4. The best Tweets are vague... Read more »
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7 Ways Smartphones and the Web F*%k up Your Brain
1. The Concept of my Attention Span Seems a Distant Memory Having a smartphone and being on Twitter can give you the attention span of a toddler experiencing meth withdrawal. No longer is it good enough to wait indefinitely for an elevator or sit through a commercial break. Oh, God no. Instead of suffering... Read more »
Eight Signs You're Procrastinating
Someone once said, “Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?” Which is a stupid question obviously posed by someone whose check engine light never went on. The answer, of course, is that in lieu of taking time out of your day to do boring things like fixing that exhaust leak, you could... Read more »
Is The Huffington Post Really THIS Stupid? Yes.
Follow @AndyDisco The Huffington Post is popular, successful and relevant- no one disputes any of those. But I wonder how efficient the HuffPo is with their home page’s real estate. Sure a lot of the news is intelligent, timely and important but other headlines of theirs are laughably worthless. Here are 13 actual examples from... Read more »
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6 Websites and Their REAL Names
You know how when you see a pudgy, middle-aged lady reading Cat Fancy magazine you think, “Why don’t they just name that magazine ‘Lonely, Pudgy, Middle-Aged Lady Monthly’? Because that is who it is really for.”? I applied the same line of logic to websites. I mean couldn’t USAToday.com also be called TheMatchboxTwentyOfNews.com?
Top 9 Annoying Things People Do On Facebook
“Like” us on Facebook, and we promise to use protection when poking you. Trust me, you don’t want to know where our poker has been. Many of us out there are just casual Facebook users. Casual Facebook users are Facebook minimalists; they only use Facebook for its very basic functions – looking at pictures of attractive people... Read more »
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