Facebook culture

When someone posts "Pray for me, them, my dog for this or that reason", and then they get a hundred responses of..."Praying."


Are those people actually praying, or just typing the word "praying"? If it's the latter, does it count as some kind of Facebook Praying?

Isn't Facebook culture a contradiction in adiecto? Next you'll be talking about "American culture".

I think for the most part they're just saying that, more like a 'Good Luck' type of thing. There's a local board that I post on (when I'm not serving another ban) that has the same thing that happens on it. Someone will post something, it can be an accident, kid run over a 4 wheeler, uncle Cotton accidentally shot himself again, fuck nothing normal happens to people here. Well anyway someone will post something, and then people post sending prayers, praying, saying prayers now, etc.. If I care enough to, I'll express a sentiment or say something like "Hope all turns out for the best".

That's gotten me more than a few "You should pray". If I respond by saying I don't believe in prayer people get all Daytonish and shit. Which sooner or later gets me banned, not so much for what I'm saying, but more a mod getting pissy that I called their wife/husband/daughter/etc. on what they posted.

And of course if the person lives, then it's "Thanks for all the prayers, they made the difference". If the person dies, then it's all "It was God's will.".

Whatever

It's just a strange, weird way for people to say "hope for the best".

Ha ha! A cunning and astute observation my esteemed colleague! Next you should point out that rap isn't music, cheeseburgers aren't food, truckstop handjobs aren't sex, and anything @Dayton3 says isn't language or communication.

#praying.

For me it's "I am truly sending out positive vibes you can think of them as prayer for a positive outcome" for many I know they literally send up a prayer, not sure how many follow the guidelines for prayer like "our father who arteth in heaven...."

"arteth" was never a word.

I am, thou art, he is, we are, ye are, they are.
I was, thou wert, he was, we were, ye were, they were.

I have, thou hast, he hath, we have, ye have, they have.
I had, thou hadst, he had, we had, ye had, they had.

I do, thou dost, he doth, we do, ye do, they do.
I did, thou didst, he did, we did, ye did, they did.

Most other regular verbs shared the pattern of three forms in the present (with I verb, thou verbest, he verbeth, we, ye, and they verb) and two forms in the past (thou verbest, but not he verbeth).

Yo chingué la madré de gturner, tú chingaste la madré de gturner, él chingó la madré de gturner, nosotros chingamos la madré de gturner, vosotros chingasteis la madré de gturner, ellos y ellas chingaron la madré de gturner.

I like that we use "ye" to sound old fashioned in certain cases: Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe.

Of course, we say the word like "yee" because in its original form is was written Þe. That first character, an obsolete English letter called thorn, kinda looks like a 'y.'

But the thorn is pronounced like the th in "there," so the original pronunciation of the word was..."the" (like thee).

You forgot one: vos chingaste la madre de gturner.

This. When someone asked me to pray for them, I would do so right then and there.

Yeah. Remember Facebook people are those you know from real life. A lot of them go through those machinations because their clergy is there and there are repercussions from their jobs. You will find that most of the faithful are hiding out in the arcade with me. It was eye opening. A lot of these are on my friend list, because we all went to high school together, but it was as if I got to the home town and realized that I left home for a reason. Easy to bow out. But for them, their lives are torn open. They don't know. They have to go though the motions. EVERYONE KNOWS WHERE THEY LIVE!

QFT.

That's what we want to tell all the Facebookers, but it's touchy. The upside? No one worth noting lives in the same town, anymore. It's a Troll of sorts, though they don't see it that way. It has the effect of running people off. What sexual harassment was in the nineties, religious harassment will be, in the " New Roaring Twenties".

I've also noticed what seems like Online Christianity's co-opting of black magic. I'm seeing a lot of, "11 years bad luck if you don't Like this picture of a baby born with crab claws instead of hands, and type 'Amen'".

Are we worshiping the baby born with crab claws instead of hands, or are we thanking God for the baby born with crab claws instead of hands, or what?

I'm one of the 94% who doesn't have the guts to worship crab claw or the elephant baby.

There's a FB meme - a classic painting of Jesus, but with a Mac Book 'shopped onto his lap.
It's captioned "Jesus checks to see if there are enough likes and shares to save the sick child."

It's hysterical to watch how many people get head-bursting offended by it. You'd think it was a cartoon of Muhammed.

If you think about it, placing a "11 years of bad luck...." with the "if you don't like it" is kind a massively douche bag thing to do. They're essentially saying if you don't think as I do and agree with me then some bad shit will happen to you. Fuck them and their holier than thou attitudes.

That kind of goes with I just said above. The ones that come off with the "you need to follow what I believe" are the ones that will be the most offended over something like that. Yet they're the ones that will come out and condemn others for not believing what they do in offensive ways, they are the ones that will others evil, perverse, disgusting, immoral, etc..

Hence the "black magic". I get a lot of cursed pictures put up on my wall.

Can't seem to find the link, but there was an article I came across suggesting many of those are posted by hackers wanting easy access to FB accounts.

Even still, many of this pics of that nature, I can't imagine anyone wanting them going viral.

People get high on seeing those like counts go up.

What gets me are the "RT for X and fav for Y" on Twitter. When X is obviously what more people are going to like, which is just asking idiots to inflate your retweet numbers.

Ugh, I just got in to an argument with a radical feminist on a Facebook page associated with my neighborhood. I'm pretty sure I made a fool of her. Hell, she doesn't even live in my neighborhood!

Okay, I've seen a new one.



Fascinating.

I shared this on Facebook a few weeks ago.



Got a lot of "likes", by Christians and otherwise.

^There are more than one!
When I shared the one I described, I got a couple of "not funny"s, a few "Thet's hysterical!"s and a series of scolding lectures from an old friend who I thought was an atheist, but apparently found Jesus after he moved to Vermont and turned into a divorced alcoholic reclusive drug addict.

So, apparently, some conservative media person made fun of popular liberal moonbat Susan Sarandon's saggy 69-year-old tits. So one of my very liberal FB friends posted a post to criticize said pundit, and affirm his opinion that Sarandon is still a very beautiful woman.

Well, I happen to agree. Although I think she's bugfuck crazy and too far to the left to be taken seriously - soret of a mirror-universe Sarah Palin - , I do think she's very beautiful and a talented actress. So I wrote that.

My liberal friend, champion of rights and political correctness, said "We're not talking about her politics, we're talking about her saggy tits."
No, he's not shallow.

Ugh, the reformed types are the fucking worst ones. It's like they don't know of anything else but to swing from one extreme to the other. My grandmother had seven kids from four different men (possibly five--her brother in law, no less), and became regormed after her marriage, but had the nerve to flip shit because the one daughter she thought she had a chance of living vicariously through dare get pregnant at 25 years old. No drugs like two of the sister, no cheating husband like the third daughter.

Why my mom continues to push church on me as a great place to meet people is beyond me. But I guess Stockholm syndrome comes in all forms.

New comments on the thread include things like "Nice rack!" and "I'd still do her."
All this, it turns out, because Piers Morgan commented that her outfit was tacky because it featured an open front and exposed bra.

Yeah, but in all fairness, Piers Morgan is a dickbarnacle, and we (as a society) really do have this serious problem where if women don't look as hawt at 60 as they did at 30 that there is free license to just tear them down.