More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Any time you add "Facebook" as a prefix to a group label, such as "Discordian" or "DJ" . . . it seems to take the ability of that person to reason effectively down to nil. I base this statement only on my own observations from a distance. It's like Facebook is an injection of group-think and hive-mind on an individual.

The old Myspace Discordians were similar, but without the pointless fuckery.

There WAS fuckery, quite a bit aimed at me, but I like to think I earned it.   

[Nephew Twiddleton]

How do you mean? Does it take the observers ability to reason or the fb discordians ability to reason down to nil?

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Any time you add "Facebook" as a prefix to a group label, such as "Discordian" or "DJ" . . . it seems to take the ability of that person to reason effectively down to nil. I base this statement only on my own observations from a distance. It's like Facebook is an injection of group-think and hive-mind on an individual.

The old Myspace Discordians were similar, but without the pointless fuckery.

There WAS fuckery, quite a bit aimed at me, but I like to think I earned it.   

I'm sure you did. You have a way of winning over the hearts and minds of the adoring masses. Myspace, Facebook, . . . I expect Tumblr and Stumblewhatever and Linkdin are all similar? I haven't joined any major social network thing since LiveJournal. Although I have a Google+ thing now so I suppose I'll find out of that falls in line with the rest of these social abortions.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

How do you mean? Does it take the observers ability to reason or the fb discordians ability to reason down to nil?

Because Zuckerberg.

That's why.   

Seriously, I think the "like" button makes people dumb.  For real, not joking. 

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

How do you mean? Does it take the observers ability to reason or the fb discordians ability to reason down to nil?

The participants, not the observer's. Although I suppose there's a discrepancy there since the observer doesn't actually know what prompts the participant to pull down his pants and shit on the keyboard in the first place. LULZ and the hope of being in a group of self-congradulating 'popular kids', I guess?

What I see is based on my own anti-social nature so it is entirely possible I don't understand the point of it at all. I'd much rather be a shithead in person and face-to-face than spread poop on the internet.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You might be on to something. It allows people to voice approval without expressing what they like about it.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

How do you mean? Does it take the observers ability to reason or the fb discordians ability to reason down to nil?

Because Zuckerberg.

That's why.   

Seriously, I think the "like" button makes people dumb.  For real, not joking.

It allows them to align themselves with something shiny and sparkly but frees them from the responsibility of participating in any meaningful way. Sort of like how the Mittens thing ended up, yeah? Or am I over-thinking things?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Pizza- exactly what i was thinking.

[The Rev]

*like*

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Oh, snap, twinsies! :P Now see, if there had been a 'like' button, one of us could have just clicked it and spared the forum the redundancies of our conclusions.

[kingyak]

Like charley said it would have been funny once. It would have benn funny ten times. Over that youre not really thinking for yourself schmuck anymore.

I looked at it kind of like the vomit scene in Team America: World Police: It started out funny, went on so long it wasn't funny anymore, then kept going until it was kind of funny again. After that it was just sort of mildly annoying until all the self-congratulations afterwards, which actually lowered my estimation of the group a lot more than the mailbox full of pointless and mostly uninteresting events.

[The Rev]

Like charley said it would have been funny once. It would have benn funny ten times. Over that youre not really thinking for yourself schmuck anymore.

I looked at it kind of like the vomit scene in Team America: World Police: It started out funny, went on so long it wasn't funny anymore, then kept going until it was kind of funny again. After that it was just sort of mildly annoying until all the self-congratulations afterwards, which actually lowered my estimation of the group a lot more than the mailbox full of pointless and mostly uninteresting events.

They were just shitting in their own mess kits.

[AFK]

How do you mean? Does it take the observers ability to reason or the fb discordians ability to reason down to nil?

Because Zuckerberg.

That's why.   

Seriously, I think the "like" button makes people dumb.  For real, not joking.

That's been my opinion on the whole social media thing from pretty much the word go. 

Putting aside the, IMO, small portion of people who actually utilize it in a smart, intelligent, and constructive way....

For so many more I think it has been a net negative. 

I'll put down a fiver or two right now that says someday a study will come out that says social media has made people less connected, not more.  I'm talking connection on a personal and real level. 

Clicking a like button is not communication.  It isn't socializing. 

Honestly, the most constructive troll/O:MF of any community on Facebook would be to destroy Facebook. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well fuck my old boots! It seems we really aren't as clever as we might seem to be after all! 

Speak for yourself Skippy! I'm a fucking genius.

I just can't figure out why my wife calls me a retard.

That's easy. It's because . . . . .

Can't see the pic...But it's because men are wired completely differently from women, so our behavior seems both alien and retarded.  Also, when we see boobs, our brains drop into our necks.  Or at least mine does.

It's just retarded "LOLMISOGYNY" humor.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow!  How can I be as Discordian as them?

I mean, targeting other Discordians with mass-spam as trolling sounds like the absolute height of thinking for yourself.

Luckily I don't think trolling people on the Internet has any bearing on whether or not you're a good Discordian. What a relief, right?  I'd hate to think that nigel's hilarious "Add everybody you know to this FB group" FB group, or our goth poetry trolls, or any number of irritating pranks we've pulled over the years, makes us bad Discordians.

That's a relief, all right.  Because after your earlier post about how funny they all thought it was to make Twid angry (I was with you until that point), I wish to be every bit as good at Discordianism as they are.

I am all about annoying the shit out of people. Where it becomes a problem is when you shit where you eat.