I hate memes
I hate memes.
I really, really, really hate them.
What is a meme, you ask? Well it’s this according to Wikipedia but I bet only about 2% of the meme-ing population understands the origins of the word. “Meme” has meme’d into this whole other thing, which is essentially: post some stupid random pointless “instructions” in your blog somewhere and then tell a bunch of other people to re-post it in their blogs. Then do mental jerk-offs over each other’s answers.
Some examples of memes are:
“Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the story below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the story. Post the result to your LJ.”
or
“Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture in your own journal.”
Memes are really popular on livejournal. They bore the pants off me. I’d rather go trolling for belly button lint. I greatly enjoy reading my LJ friends’ journals but I could do without ever seeing another meme, or seeing the word meme, or knowing that memes exist, for the rest of my life.
Now if you feel the same way, copy this post and put it in your journal.
Then destroy your computer with a great big explosive device and never touch the Internet again. Thanks.