Webshites to avoid.

[hirez]

I don't remember how I found this one. Only that I could stand to read about three pages before the urge to put my head in the oven too strong to resist.

Luckily (or not, depending on mood) we have an electric oven, so it all got a bit Neil The Hippy.

In the main, the recent trend of 'customer is always wrong','bitter waitress','texts from last night','postsecret' and the like are good for ten minutes while something compiles. Windows onto different worlds, if you will.

I'm also all for a bit of dark humour.

That thing though? Pretty much everything that's wrong with people in handy paragraphs. Not in a 'oh noes lol drawmah' sense, but something unexpectedly soul-deadening.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

People are shit. In soulcrushingly banal ways.

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

I found the hand on the crotch one *very very * slightly funny

[hsb.livejournal.com]

There are two truly weird things about that site. One is that people post that they knew it was over when *they* did something awful (huh?). The other is that so many of them post that their ex did something utterly unforgivable, then say that they stayed together for X months or even years afterwards.

It's like the site of people without the correct amount of self-respect.

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

Isn't it.

I thought (hoped) it was a hoax, but while trying to find something else, I chanced across a similar thread on B3ta that's somewhat less worse.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I did wonder how many of those stories would have an other side that would put a completely different light on it. Especially the ones that went 'he/she did this unforgivable thing then we stayed together for months'.

[andrewducker]

How about a site celebrating the happy little things in life?

http://mylifeisaverage.com/

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Some of them were uterly depressing, but there was one that made me giggle in an unseemly manner:

"We were fighting one day and he drew me a graph on his whiteboard of hours spent together vs. utility derived from the relationship. He argued that us going on nice dates is just as good as him sitting on my couch playing video games for eight hours. Not only did he graph our relationship, he completely missed the concept of diminishing marginal utility. Good job, econ major."

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I can't stand PostSecret. It makes me horribly sad and annoyed at the same time.