Friday, August 8, 2014

Feeding Facebook

The person who always posts a picture on Facebook for Throwback Thursday is: (fill in the blank). Someone popped into your mind, right? Think about it. As you scroll through your Facebook feed, you probably can intuitively identify who posted what before you've even fully focused on it.

Animals that need to be adopted. Quick, who posts it? Not that it needs to be only one person. I often find it fascinating that I have Facebook friends who don't know each other who have so much in common. (In this case, they're making me want to adopt all the puppies!)

Running! Who came to mind? I have friends who are attending the same events who don't know each other, and I wonder if I should introduce them. Is that weird? Does it break Facebook etiquette somehow?

There are also people who love:
quizzes that tell you what TV character or decade or city you are or what your Martian name is. (I got Goofus. Which character are you?)

And those on your feed who are always posting:
math brain teasers; the latest movie; motivational sayings; motorcycles; horses; prayers; musical theater; a particular sports team; comic book conventions; environmental issues; froth-filled Starbucks cups; pictures of Ryan Gosling saying something romantic; cartoon women saying something sassy; personal medical ailments; recipes that are healthy; recipes that are incredibly fattening! 

Wouldn't it be fun to mess with everyone if you are, say, a running post person and today you post a really fattening recipe? Or if math person posts a puppy picture? Let's all break our own stereotypes! Let's stick it to the man! (Oh, yeah, protest person. That's another one.)

And of course, I, too, am feeding the Facebook feed. I'm the person who always puts the link to her blog.

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