I was made aware of this FB page today:
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork?fref=ts
I started reading through some of the posts and I couldn't understand it. There were random posts like this:
...and this:
There's one post about an illegal immigrant that graduated college. One of the comments says:
Angel Velez
None of the posts have any point. It's just random New Yorkers talking about failed relationships, or pressure in life, or their 1st world problems. There is clearly a SJW slant. This is facebook after all.
The page has 13 MILLION followers. That post about the gay boy being afraid for the future got 500,000+ likes, 45,000+ shares, and 46,000+ comments.
NY has homeless guys sleeping in a pool of their own piss, and yet the emotional outpouring that results in some of these fb posts would have you believe that New Yorkers are the most compassionate and thoughtful people on the planet. What a crock of shit.
This FB page is Zuckerberg's wet dream come true. Millions of people captively reading the mundane, everyday experiences of others and providing digital validation through a "Like" button. In the meantime, people have never been more socially awkward or alienated from each other in real life.
Don't get me wrong I love visiting the place, and if I could afford to live there I would. Actually I take that back. If I could afford to live in NY I would move to SEA or EE. Anyway my point is I think it's a great city, but this page confirms some suspicions on my part, that New Yorkers tend to think they're living the "real deal", a somehow more important, more authentic existence, which would explain why anytime I run into a NY transplant, they won't shut the fuck up about how great NY is and all the things they miss about it.
At first I thought it was satire, something like The Onion would do. It seems like nothing more than a breeding ground for SJW groupthink.
I can't help but feel that this is a harbinger of things to come.
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork?fref=ts
I started reading through some of the posts and I couldn't understand it. There were random posts like this:
Quote:Quote:(some busted 5/10 hipster)
“We’d been together for a couple years. One night I asked him if he ever thought about our future together, and he said ‘not really.’ So we broke up. He started dating someone new. I unfollowed him on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook. The other day he came over for the first time in months and fixed my remote control. So I started following him again. When he got the notification, he asked me why I had unfollowed him in the first place. I didn’t know how to say: ‘Because it hurts to see pictures of you being happy without me.’”
...and this:
Quote:Quote:(some young boy)
"I'm homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me."
There's one post about an illegal immigrant that graduated college. One of the comments says:
Angel Velez
Quote:Quote:The comment has 5,000 likes.
No one is illegal. We are all humans separated by borders that don't really exist.
None of the posts have any point. It's just random New Yorkers talking about failed relationships, or pressure in life, or their 1st world problems. There is clearly a SJW slant. This is facebook after all.
The page has 13 MILLION followers. That post about the gay boy being afraid for the future got 500,000+ likes, 45,000+ shares, and 46,000+ comments.
NY has homeless guys sleeping in a pool of their own piss, and yet the emotional outpouring that results in some of these fb posts would have you believe that New Yorkers are the most compassionate and thoughtful people on the planet. What a crock of shit.
This FB page is Zuckerberg's wet dream come true. Millions of people captively reading the mundane, everyday experiences of others and providing digital validation through a "Like" button. In the meantime, people have never been more socially awkward or alienated from each other in real life.
Don't get me wrong I love visiting the place, and if I could afford to live there I would. Actually I take that back. If I could afford to live in NY I would move to SEA or EE. Anyway my point is I think it's a great city, but this page confirms some suspicions on my part, that New Yorkers tend to think they're living the "real deal", a somehow more important, more authentic existence, which would explain why anytime I run into a NY transplant, they won't shut the fuck up about how great NY is and all the things they miss about it.
At first I thought it was satire, something like The Onion would do. It seems like nothing more than a breeding ground for SJW groupthink.
I can't help but feel that this is a harbinger of things to come.