Arbitrary Day Experience

If you didn't already know I'm a huge Redditor (A fanatic of Reddit.com), I spend endless empty hours browsing the website.  A couple months ago I saw a post on their front page labeled "Arbitrary Day 2012". As a relatively new member I had no clue what it was all about.  I opened the link and realized it was a huge international gift exchange, I was immediately intrigued. I took the couple minutes it took to register, added my interests and hobbies etc, so my match would know a little about me.

A couple months pass, I had almost forgotten that I had signed up for it, I received and email stating that my Arbitrary Day match was ready. My match was a 20 year old male from Massachusetts.  Now to find a gift for him, which I thought would be kinda easy, but his "about me" section only said he's into everything....yeah that narrows it down.  After a couple messages exchanged I found out a little more about him, he's a big gamer, likes to smoke a lot of pot and into cool/funny tshirts.  I really just wanted to send him some weed, because it seemed he really liked it...but I didn't know how legal that would be Ha.   After spending quit a bit of time looking for a decent present I settled with some Super Mario figurines, a Super Mario lanyard  and a Anchor Man tshirt. (I wish I would of taken a pic, but fuck I didn't)  I ship it off, a couple days later I get a message saying that he received it and really liked it, also he invited me for a reddit smoke out if I'm ever in the area!

Now I'm just waiting for my match to send me mine, keep in mind it's not the same person I sent mine too. A couple days after I receive my package.....drum rrrrrooolllllll!!!  I open the package, I take it out, I'm holding it in my hands, I never in a thousand years thought it would be this, I'm kinda confused, but again, it's genius! I set it down, I see a switch, I turn it on. Its a light-up stained glass frog!  Its funny, I have a blog explaining my "power" animal and yeah it's a frog!  It's so far from what I expected but I like it, it suits me well. I quickly message the sender thanking them, I upload it to the reddit gift site, It was voted one of Reddit Gift Favorites!  Anyways hit the link (Argh Frog!) to check it out!

The Downfall of Facebook?

Recently I've found myself spending less and less time on Facebook.  I use to spend a lot of time checking my stream, finding out what all my friends were doing and so fourth, but now I just see a bunch of outdated garbage floating around, all these incorrectly used meme's, ecards, "hit like if you..." links, garbage from other social sites, etc.  

Incorrectly used Meme's:  What is a meme? A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. Usually a meme has a pop culture reference, taken from a movie, show, or popular picture.  Most of the times they are incorrectly used or don't use their cultural reference, basically they just get a random-ass picture and plop some random text on top and call it a meme.




Another phenomena that's has taken Facebook by storm is taking a shitty picture, adding a vintage filter and adding some random quote in Helvetica font and adding a drop down shadow. I'll give you an example. 

These Type of photos are so uncreative and simple to make, yet they get so much attention its ridiculous! Another trend is see a lot is people taking a "hipster" photo of themselves basically adding the same effects, then adding an emo quote on top.  I will demonstrate how easily they are to make!  Hipster looking pic: check. Add a vintage filter: check. Add an emo quote on top: check. and voila! In a matter of minutes I've made one!

When it comes down to it these are very un-original and simple to make, so stop acting like you're some kind of emotional hipster!  While we are on the subject lets touch up on these fucking e-cards that are everywhere now, yeah they use to be kinda entertaining but again people are getting carried away with them!  It gets out of hand when every other post is being either one of these, lets cool it for a second with them!

For Reposting Lame e-cards!

Raise your hand if you've ever seen "Hit like if you're..."  or "Hit like if you remember" or "Hit like if you agree", or "Hit like if you love Jesus"  that's right I see a lot of hand up.  Most of these things are pretty fucking stupid if you ask me!  All they do if take up valuable Facebook real estate!   The one that really bugs me if when you see a horribly ill picture of a child with something along the line of, "If we get 3000 likes we can save their life"  Yeah like some fucking doctor is keep track of all the likes, imagine the doctor going into a meeting with the parents and having to say, "I'm sorry we only got 2999 likes, we're gonna have to let you're child die." You know how fucking ridiculous that sounds?!  And who the hell is that stupid and gullible to fall for some so incredibly absurd ? 


Other things that are blowing up my stream are ironically other social media sites mainly Pinterest.  No one cares what high heels you like, no one cares what type of fucking cookies you're gonna bake,  no one cares, if we did, we'd be on that site, no need to share it with another social site.  Another one I see a lot is Social feed, have no clue what the fuck it is but I always see on my feed, again, we are on Facebook for a reason, if we wanted to use the other social networking sites we'd use them! Twitter is also a problem, if I wanted to follow you on twitter I would, no need to repost your tweets on Facebook, and stop fucking using # (hashtags), you look like an idiot!


What it's coming down too is that we are still using Facebook because there is no other substitute for it, yeah there's google+, but we all saw how that came along.  Facebook is increasingly turning into a shitty version of reddit with outdated material and no fucking downvote button.