this website makes me ill

http://www.fmylife.com/

i will wait to 'follow'...let's see how it all plays out

Today, I realized my best friend has had sex in my apartment more times than I have. FML
#12896 (1) - 02/07/2009 at 2:23am by paradox - sex - I agree, your life is f***ed (858) - you deserved that one (240)

Oh snap.

srsly tho idk if ive a website has ever made me feel worse about my generation - i'm not sure exactly what it is, just this idea of people advertising this shit as if something profound happened in their life. isnt this shit you should just tell your friends? the idea that the whole internet would care is crazy to me. i guess it's also partly because the proliferation of the FML acronym has been happening for a bit on fbook/twitter etc and when ppl update their statuses w/ shit like this it's always so "look at me!", and now there is a website...

Love it

I think it's important for people, particularly Americans, to embrace the dark side in all of us. In the US any attitude that's less than super-positive sunshine and smiling flowers is seen as deviant behavior.

i think mostly what i learned from that website is that a whole lot of people like to make up "isnt it ironic" style lies and post them on the internet

Today it was like 10000 forks and all i needed was a knife. FML.

After reading a couple of posts I was also thinking "Fuck Their Life" so job done, really.

haha john

it's a dog eat dog world out there and i got milkbone underwear. FML

Today a wise old lady at the grocery store told me that if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Unfortunately i had already checked out and had only bought limes. Also she was crippled. FML

Most of these are split between "it's your fault for saying the first thing that fell out of your mouth" and "you need better friends"

srsly tho idk if ive a website has ever made me feel worse about my generation - i'm not sure exactly what it is, just this idea of people advertising this shit as if something profound happened in their life. isnt this shit you should just tell your friends? the idea that the whole internet would care is crazy to me. i guess it's also partly because the proliferation of the FML acronym has been happening for a bit on fbook/twitter etc and when ppl update their statuses w/ shit like this it's always so "look at me!", and now there is a website...

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Saturday, February 7, 2009 9:42 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think you're reading a lot more into this than is actually there.

and keep in mind who is saying this

You're right that a few of them read like attempts at haikus of misanthropy (this isolated event is so MEANINGFUL!!) but this makes me think more of a subpar PostSecret--art students make shit up, then make it pretty and sad--than anything generationally narcissistic.

I was reading the FML site and "So You Win Again" by Hot Chocolate came up in random play on WinAmp...

Even as a grown adult my friends still ditch me or don't return my phone calls / text messages. Why are people still such assholes?

I must have done some really shitty things in a past life. That's all I'm saying.

Why does it have to be a past life?

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/thereset88/rockbottom.jpg

Shock of shocks, I'm a pretty nice and pleasant person in real life. I guess people feel like they can take advantage of that. What rotten bastards.

idk hoos, obv some are made up but i feel like lots are true and i really just hate this type of internet oversharing... at least postsecret is cool to look at

fuckin assholes xp

sarge we should link them all to i love tmi

yeah i know but ilx is diff since it's a 'community', when ppl post shit like this on "what is happening to our borad" it doesn't bother me at ll

out loud lols at this one...

Today, I posted on a forum asking if I could be a Moderator, instead, I got banned. FML

I was reading the FML site and "So You Win Again" by Hot Chocolate came up in random play on WinAmp...FML.

yeah i know but ilx is diff since it's a 'community', when ppl post shit like this on "what is happening to our borad" it doesn't bother me at ll

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Saturday, February 7, 2009 10:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

ah so its the anonymity factor like 'idk who the fuck u are why the fuck would i care about you voming on yr bfs face' right?

We all have our demons, but we aren't allowed to talk about them. The internet is one of the few places where Americans can actually talk about their personal lives without fear of judgment. Would you take that away, too?

(xxpost) actually my thought was "yay go me I rule!"

As in, the attitudes displayed here are exactly why websites like this exist in the first place

here's another one: you live in the lap of luxury, stfu.

What's more important: luxury, or loving friends and family?

ah so its the anonymity factor like 'idk who the fuck u are why the fuck would i care about you voming on yr bfs face' right?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, February 7, 2009 4:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i mean i don't like the idea that the internet has made ppl think that it's okay to advertise to everyone such banalities and non-entities like something actually happened. it also has such a show-offy feel to it, like when kids in hs w/ 4.0 gpas dick measure about homework and stuff

I mean I can see where it's kinda a self-involved corruption of the purposes of the internet: you can make connections and engage or you can advertise yourself to strangers anonymously, and this is what you choose? But I'd say our best outweighs our worst by a long shot

xxpost
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.svg/400px-Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.svg.png

xxxp
perhaps the fact that you've got the time and resources and to ponder and ask us that question is relevant.

strike second 'and'

it also has such a show-offy feel to it, like when kids in hs w/ 4.0 gpas dick measure about homework and stuff

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Saturday, February 7, 2009 11:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i mean yah like this is people on facebook going "Justin is sad today ;_;" and it just makes me shake my head that people seek attention in such a strange way but whatru gonna do

and another thing- and i think this is what bothers me most- is that it's the lowest denominator of the movement set in motion by myspace/fbook where ppl are striving so hard to out quirk each other. "i told my boss that i was happy that she's pregnant. but she's not pregnant!" "oh well i saw my crush and winked at him but then i walked into a window!" etc

but anyway back to the politics of messenger bags

the politics of messenger bags dominate lots of my thinking, seeing as i am 20 yrs old and use the internet

realest of talk

me:i had this whole shit going a while back where i was all hopped up on postmodern thinking and was trying to puzzle out what it meant that people were listing all their interests and music and books like they were currency of some kind
me:"they're not talking about anything, they're trading signifiers! what the hell does that MEAN!"
me:and i think your quirk think kinda hits on it too
me:like this is all about trying to make yourself look more interesting than the next person

sarge:yup otm
sarge:like at least if you tell your friends this stuff it doesn't have that extra baggage

me:but i think the anonymity saps that factor though
me:and instead of becoming a passive aggressive contest at who is more diablo cody it just gets narcissitic
me:i am going to post this itt if u don't mind

sarge:nah idont at all

me:lol
me:rabbit hole amirite

sarge:srsly

what does that 'politics of messenger bags' phrase mean exactly?

Caring about this shit means you care about the internet way too much. To me this place is like a dumpster for the human mind.

a phrase coined by chaki, may he rest in peace, about ppl on ilx talking about facebook and myspace

ok, and what's it referencing precisely?

i dont remember exactly, i think "messenger bags" is chaki's stand in for "politics of facebook"

also, you can add the '25 things about me' lists to this

so it's not...cliched statements you might see on messenger bags, but rather trivial discussions about trivial modern shit.

for ages i thought it was stuff like this http://www.giftsforageek.com/product/math_vs_politics_messenger_bag_20984880

no

Does it also include sites like "43 Things (I Will Never Ever Do In My Life)"?

It's because when chaki got a little too real for ilx, one of the popular threads was this:

Messenger Bags / Courier Bags

Yeah "politics of messenger bags" = inane conversations about the MEANING of social trends

It just seems stupid and pointless and empty. This:

Today, I went looking for a childhood doll - I remembered that my mum kept her in her bedside cabinet. I could see the doll at the back, but there was stuff in the way, so I reached in and took some of it out, only to find I was holding one of my mum's toys... a big black rubber cock. FML
#13590 (4) - 02/07/2009 at 4:16pm by J - misc - I agree, your life is f***ed (482) - you deserved that one (148)

...I LOL'd at, I must admit. Not that I believe it actually happened, like.

Today, I handed my PhD dissertation, which I have spent the past year researching and writing full-time. Last night, my roommate set an autocorrect on Word that changed "neither" to "nigger." I didn't notice until after I handed it in. My professor is black. FML
#3991 (18) - 01/31/2009 at 6:40am by iloveapples - misc - thx for agreeing! (6574) - you deserved that one (248)

i'm white btw

I saw a good one on there "Today, I woke up, and I am still in the Marine Corps." (Quoting from memory though.)

you guys are hilarious for caring so much. you old grumpy bastards.i think it's hilarious. i tried to pretend this was all the same person.

http://masterjedi.free.fr/wordpress/wp-content/2008/05/batman_rip.jpg

nathalie on the tbomb squad

if you are my age and you aren't repulsed by the idea of this website and the people who 'contribute' to it, you gotta look in the mirror imo

Nathalie is OTM, yes.

I think what's bogus about this site is that nearly all of the things people are posting are so trivial! Like, if it was "I lost my job, cant get another one and the bank is foreclosing on my house, FML" you could maybe understand it, but instead it mainly seems to be stuff like "I saw my reflection in a shop window i am a fattey o no ;_; FML" to which, you know, big fuckin' deal, man.

^^^ trivial events/misunderstandings taken far too seriously and personally:

Today, I sang at a retirement home with my school choir. Afterward we went to speak to the old people, just to get to know them a little. The first woman I shake hands with ask "Are you a boy or a girl?" FML

I mean FFS, if this happened to me I'd just think to myself "maybe she's partially sighted".

My toast had just popped out of the toaster and then I realised that I didn't have any jam. FML.

Yeah, I thought they were all from the same person too!

But...you don't understand! Life is my dog! FML

that site overloaded my bullshit detector

a passive aggressive contest at who is more diablo cody it just gets narcissitic

lol @ this

can't believe this site still exists, but I just tried it and...it's ugly as hell but it's still there with new submissions!

fuck my life finds a way

BRB, voting for all of them “You Deserved it.”