Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Social media, not in a nutshell...

 

Found on MeWe via user Niko Depofi:


Q: How many Facebook group members does it take to change a light bulb ?

A: 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions.

6 to argue over whether it's 'lightbulb' or 'light bulb'.

Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.

22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being jerks.

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is 'lamp'.

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that 'light bulb' is perfectly correct.

49 to post memes and gifs (several are of Michael Jackson eating popcorn with the words added, “I’m just here for the comments.”)

19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page.

11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here.

24 to discuss the merits of LED/swirly fluorescent light bulbs

44 to claim LED and fluorescent bulbs will kill you.

12 to post F.

8 to ask what F means.

7 to post 'Following' but there's 3 dots at the top right that means you don't have to.

3 to say "can't share"

2 to reply "can't share from a closed group"

36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs.

15 People to post "I can't see S$%^!" and use their own light bulbs.

6 to report the post or PM an admin because someone said "f÷×$"

4 to say "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?".

13 to say "Do a search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs".

1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn't the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments.

50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.

5 admins to ban the light bulb posters who took it all too seriously.

1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.


True dat!



Peter


7 comments:

FeralFerret said...

Sounds about right. That's one of the reasons that I don't do social media.

MNW said...

Yep.

Don't forget the iron law of the internet: the longer a thread goes on the likelyhood that there is a Nazi referance or someone is called a Nazi approches 1

Old NFO said...

LOL, oh yeah!

JFM said...

Lamp IS the proper industry term.

Philip Sells said...

Maxine Waters isn't the brightest bulb, you know.

What? Wait a minute....

B said...

This was originally written about 25 years ago for USENET gtoups....it was true then, and it is no less true as you posted it.

People haven't changed.

markm said...

I just realized that we've got a generation coming up to which a "lightbulb" is filled with LED's, and unless something is wrong it's probably going to outlive the light fixture.