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How social media is like high school
2008-06-30, 6:30 PM #1
So accurate! :omg:
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2008-06-30, 6:33 PM #2
So I'm a jock and I'm part of the drama club?
2008-06-30, 6:36 PM #3
I'm not a jock, stoner, emo kid, or prom queen. But I never did manage to make it into any particular group AND I was in the A/V group in middle school. So I guess it got two out of my possible four.
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2008-06-30, 6:55 PM #4
I guess I should be a member of Slashdot instead of Facebook.
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2008-06-30, 6:57 PM #5
Who doesn't have a facebook these days though?
2008-06-30, 7:11 PM #6
Only neeeeeeeerds don't have facebook!
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2008-06-30, 7:15 PM #7
Slashdot is the band kids? Come on, they can do better than that.
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2008-06-30, 7:25 PM #8
Well, they've rightly got me as part of the jocks (varsity athlete counts, right?) and the drama club, but I guess I also ought to be on Slashdot.
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2008-06-30, 7:27 PM #9
...really?
2008-06-30, 7:38 PM #10
Originally posted by Freelancer:
Slashdot is the band kids? Come on, they can do better than that.

Can they? There's nothing in the real world that is like Slashdot.

Also, people, don't take it so seriously, they aren't suggesting that if you use a certain service, you were that group in high school. Wow.

:carl:
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2008-06-30, 7:40 PM #11
What about the chess club?
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2008-06-30, 7:41 PM #12
That was a terrible article. The premise itself is horrible, but at least if it were written by someone who isn't cognitively impaired they might have been able to squeeze some comedy blood out of the proverbial stone. For example, they might have illustrated why these groups fit the listed stereotypes, but I suppose that would have required actual effort instead of basing an entire article on 5 second Google Image Searches.


You know what? I'll help them out:

Digg: They're the faceless and nameless people who never managed to join a particular group. You see, I'm perpetually trapped in my memories of high school because that's the last time I enjoyed my life before my high school sweetheart got me knocked up on prom night and I don't remember all of those faceless, nameless people who didn't sign my yearbook and I also don't visit Digg.

Everybody Else: They're like the listed clique because they're a bunch of attention whores too.
2008-06-30, 9:41 PM #13
The Abstinence Club? Seriously? High schools have such a club?

How saddening.
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2008-06-30, 10:51 PM #14
totally never heard of those last two
slashdot and band kids is totally wrong, more like computer club
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2008-06-30, 11:03 PM #15
Yeah... too bad twitter is completely dominated by the tech industry.

Go ask a 17 year old what twitter is.
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2008-07-01, 3:09 AM #16
I don't need an article to tell me that sites full of high schoolers are like high school. I avoid all sites like Myspace and Facebook.
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2008-07-01, 4:52 AM #17
This was fepic fail.


That's right, even worse than an epic fail.
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2008-07-01, 5:06 AM #18
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Who doesn't have a facebook these days though?


I personally find all those websites completely retarded, so no, I don't have one.
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2008-07-01, 5:46 AM #19
What does this make us? The guys behind the gymnasium smoking pot?
2008-07-01, 5:54 AM #20
well we do like the color
2008-07-01, 4:01 PM #21
Originally posted by fishstickz:
Go ask a 17 year old what twitter is.

You're missing the point. :carl:
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2008-07-01, 4:14 PM #22
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
The Abstinence Club? Seriously? High schools have such a club?

How saddening.


I was gonna say that
2008-07-01, 4:23 PM #23
Originally posted by Jep:
I personally find all those websites completely retarded, so no, I don't have one.


They're only as retarded as the people who use them. I admit facebook has gotten worse about allowing people to be retarded, but it's still very useful.
2008-07-01, 4:44 PM #24
Originally posted by JM:
What does this make us? The guys behind the gymnasium smoking pot?


I'm down
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2008-07-01, 5:36 PM #25
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
The Abstinence Club? Seriously? High schools have such a club?

How saddening.


The Abstinence Club was pretty much my high school. :(
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2008-07-01, 5:59 PM #26
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
The Abstinence Club was pretty much my high school. :(


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2008-07-02, 12:26 AM #27
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Who doesn't have a facebook these days though?


I do not
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2008-07-02, 5:14 AM #28
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
They're only as retarded as the people who use them. I admit facebook has gotten worse about allowing people to be retarded, but it's still very useful.


This.

I've used facebook many a time to drum up weekends with the boys and old uni mates.

And yes, the 'tards do make it a chore...
2008-07-03, 11:32 PM #29
stoner kids unite!
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