High score makes me wish I never accepted your friend request.
10 points: Join the fight against (something terrible) by posting this status to raise awareness (list some facts)
+ 5 Get people to change profile picture to something odd as part of this "awareness" campaign
+5 Implore people to just change their status "for an hour" -- is that too much to ask for the poor victims of (something terrible)?
+ 5 Vaguebook by getting people to post crazy things in order to get people to ask "why are you posting (your shoe size)" so you can respond "duh, its (toe fungus) awareness week"
10 points: Poem (or other sad cliched attempt at eloquence) and "repost if you" love (something everyone loves like mom or puppies) or lost/miss someone.
+ 5 Invoke 9/11
+ 5 Invoke heroes: troops, cops, firefighters, first responders, nurses, teachers...
+ 5 Actually be about moms
+ 5 Invoke dead babies
10 points: Manage to imply that most people WON'T repost because they are just not as (courageous/aware/involved/wonderful/supportive of some group) as the poster is especially because the post involves controversial topics like
+ 5 God/Baby Jesus/Faith
+ 5 America
+ 5 Heroes: troops, cops, firefighters, first responders, nurses, teachers...
+ 5 How people are all so willing to get behind (cause X) but don't pay sufficient attention to (cause Y)
+ 5 the media
+ 5 the lamestream media
Less offensive, but still annoying, so you can take some points off your score if:
- 5 If the post is an ironic mocking of these kinds of statuses: Did you lose a loved one on the Death Star?
- 5 If the status is actually funny or charming.
Exactly. SOOOO true.
ReplyDeleteI usually say something like, "I think it's boring to have my entire wall full of the same 50 statuses, I do like puppies/soldiers/moms/dads/babies/genocide though." Okay, not genocide, but you get the idea.
YES!
ReplyDeleteSo true! I feel so manipulated each time I see a status that "challenges" me to support a cause or else it means I don't love "God/America/Babies."
ReplyDeleteamen.
ReplyDeleteas i posted as my status once a year or two ago, when one of those awful memes was going around...i donate my status to one cause, and one cause only: getting off my head whatever i feel like getting off my head.
I started ignoring status updates from a Facebook friend who is extremely political, but there doesn't seem to be a way to ignore his invitations and causes. So whenever I click over to that page I have dozens of requests, all from him. I just leave them because it would take too long to click "ignore" for all of them.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this. I think it's a mutation of chain emails that used to go out. One of my best friends from high school is a major offender. Her husband is in the military so she is forever posting things about supporting the troops. I don't want to say anything because I know her family has sacrificed for our country. Her husband is fine, but it's hard on them when he is deployed. But if only she could find a less cheesy way to express it!
ReplyDeleteUh, Farmville (and similar games)will ensure that I will murder you on the spot.
ReplyDeleteLove it! Can I lose points for you hating me since I WORK on the freaking Death Star?
ReplyDeleteParalegal Hell