I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Oh yeah that is something I've found weird too. The weird part is how they turned it into this like mini social media where it reads like a facebook timeline if you read through your "friends" venmo histories, which was just pulled off facebook. Some people spend a lot of money on eating out and idk I just feel like it's almost a boasting thing people will do, to let everyone know how active they are? Probably really cynical of me, but people will write like a paragraph damn near about just sending someone $25 for dinner, and it's just something I could never consider doing. It's just weird to mix money and friendship in the way that it does it.

    • shitshow [any]
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      4 years ago

      Honestly no, that's a great take. Every single app has been Facebook-ized. JoesFrackinJack will be properly credited in my manifesto and your name will echo through the halls of history.