With the third thread settling close onto the usual 2,000 post renew marker I figured what best but to start the fourth thread off with not just an annoying teenage girly title in true spirit of the discussion here but also with my, and by now I imagine others, annoyance.
The Internet Fad
This weeks being the Ice Bucket Challenge. It was something I ignored easily enough at first, an inoffensive way to attract attention to a charitable cause, fine enough. But in true fashion it's become an monsterous all media covering internet phenomenon over a few days so its almost inescapable. Starting out with mostly celebrities doing it it quickly lost steam when Charlie Sheen, yes... Charlie Sheen, took the moral high ground by donating lump sum cash instead of getting wet. very quickly we've had it spread into the public domain, have regular updates on the news about who's done it-currently doing it-been nominated to do it. It's still powering on despite the death of a teenager and hospitalisation of a man. The death of one of its originators 5 days ago attracted less attention than who was getting soaked that day.
It's the all encompassing obsessiveness people get that bothers me most. It's not even the challenge itself as by this time next week it'll be something equally tiresome doing the rounds like the video punching, or danger diving, that drinking challenge from a few weeks back, planking or other naff idea.
The only real thing learned from the ever increasingly weary fads, is just how desperate millions of people are to feel included that they'd blindly follow and in some cases put themselves at risk over things that ultimately nobody cares if they do or don't do.
The Internet Fad
This weeks being the Ice Bucket Challenge. It was something I ignored easily enough at first, an inoffensive way to attract attention to a charitable cause, fine enough. But in true fashion it's become an monsterous all media covering internet phenomenon over a few days so its almost inescapable. Starting out with mostly celebrities doing it it quickly lost steam when Charlie Sheen, yes... Charlie Sheen, took the moral high ground by donating lump sum cash instead of getting wet. very quickly we've had it spread into the public domain, have regular updates on the news about who's done it-currently doing it-been nominated to do it. It's still powering on despite the death of a teenager and hospitalisation of a man. The death of one of its originators 5 days ago attracted less attention than who was getting soaked that day.
It's the all encompassing obsessiveness people get that bothers me most. It's not even the challenge itself as by this time next week it'll be something equally tiresome doing the rounds like the video punching, or danger diving, that drinking challenge from a few weeks back, planking or other naff idea.
The only real thing learned from the ever increasingly weary fads, is just how desperate millions of people are to feel included that they'd blindly follow and in some cases put themselves at risk over things that ultimately nobody cares if they do or don't do.
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