Technological Humour

The internet is a funny place these days.

Gone were the times when I could play a simple game without coming across an ad for a porn site, and gone were the times when I would not click on those links. I can't deny that the internet has become a staple of my life; even as I'm typing this, I require internet access to do so. It's a little bit ironic, that I would renege on the very tool that gave me at the very least, a decent amount of satisfaction over the years... and here is my reason:

Online Communities

Don't get me wrong, I love making friends, and some of my closer ones actually had origins from the internet. However, like any other double-edged sword, there's always a downside somewhere. While I get a magnified view of my peer's lives, I also get the same enlarged peek into the stupidity of others. Facebook, for example, has become a tool to legalize e-whoring.
If you have seen the following:

A person with several thousand friends
That same person posting things such as:

"Like if you're awake."
"30 likes and I'm pretty."
(I would like to add that this only applies to people posting it for the likes)
"roflololmao I just slapped my mother."
" Please like the picture, not the link."

Chances are, that person is an e-whore. Oh dear, is it wrong to laugh at these people, I was told making fun of mentally-challenged people is wrong. Anyway..

I don't think people need to be told to like something, because if I, for instance, like something simply because I was TOLD to, then I'm not really liking that certain something. This often happens when someone is competing in a contest. Out of the blue, I'll get a message, and then getting really excited because I haven't talked to that person in aeons. Instead of a "OMG HI HOW R U!", I get a "OMG LIKE MY PIC PLZ HERE R LINK:".
So why give inventive names to these contests when in actuality, it's nothing more than a "how many friends want to get in your pants" thing?

My point is, advertising should be regulated. Posting your work on the internet is alright, and if it's good, people will automatically like it. You don't need to spam mails and messages to perpetually pester me for my approval.

Next up, love quotes. Sometimes you find a good love quote, and you want to share them with your friends. That, is completely normal. I'm talking about the ones who continuously post quote after quote to sound deep and get their five thousand friends to like it and go, "Oh my this person is so insightful, so thoughtful, so emotionally beautiful!!11"

I can tell the difference by the way, when your usual grammatically poor statuses are suddenly replaced by ones that are correct. Also, sympathy will not be given to those who claim to be going through a rough patch as I will think you're still an attention whore. When one is down, he/she either a) talks to a close friend about it or b) keeps it all in. You do not post shit on your wall to get likes, because if you're well enough to obsess about how much attention you're getting, then the problems you have are obviously not serious.

I think that pretty much explains my random fits of laughter whenever I check my news feed on Facebook because half those statuses are exactly as I have mentioned. I guess it works both ways though, as much as I find them ridiculous, I still need a source of laughter after a long day at work and 9gag is really getting old.

Funny how the internet works, isn't it?