facebook memes, gtfo.

OKAY. My first real post will clearly be a rant.

Let's talk facebook memes.

Before I get into anything, I will start by acknowledging that facebook is fucking ridiculous from top to bottom. It makes everyone roughly 100x more annoying and punchable. It is systematically destroying all real relationships and making it entirely possible to know exactly what your third grade teacher's daughter is up to nowadays. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IS IMPORTANT. But let's be serious - I love it, you love it, we all love it. You know, until it becomes sentient and kills us all.

Since it's inception, it's only become more and more irritating. Twitter helped, making facebook feel the need to jack their entire concept and give us the ever present status update - complete with its very own feed! So now I can see what you ate for breakfast and where you're going and what you're doing and THAT LOST IS PREMIERING TONIGHT ZOMG. Although, admittedly, I do get a vast percentage of my world news from facebook status updates. True story. Where was I going with this again? AH right. Memes.

So, the newest annoying little incarnation is changing your picture or status or picture and status or whatever for a week. There was throwback week, where people put up childhood pictures of themselves, which barely caught on. Then there was the breast cancer awareness bra color thing, which admittedly, I did participate in. Because I was wearing a cute bra that day. But now, we are on to the two most ridiculous of all: doppelganger week and this urban dictionary shit.

The urban dictionary meme is essentially putting your first name in urban dictionary, seeing the results, and putting them on your status. EVERYONE IS DOING THIS and they all say the same thing more or less. Something along the lines of:

1.	Carrie
	buy carrie mugs, tshirts and magnets hottest girl ever. always hard to get. sassy and classy at the same time. stunning eyes that draws you in. gorgeous and sexy. usually looks for independence and always good at everything. a dime piece, the realest bitch. never betrays her friends and always keeps her word.

This serves one purpose and one purpose alone: to validate yourself to your facebook friends using the trusted and indisputable internet source, URBAN DICTIONARY. You know, the website that is primarily used for people desperate to find the true definition for the word "taint". Never underestimate the amount of people desperate to be called dime pieces by websites written by high school kids.

However, the meme that inspired this all is, of course, DOPPELGANGER WEEK. Before I even get into the ridiculousness of some of these pictures, I'd like to let everyone know how alarmed I am that no one fucking knows what doppelganger means. Did anyone go to high school but me? Seriously. It's not a hard word. Jerome Shostak is rolling over in his grave.

Moving along, the idea of doppelganger week is to put up a facebook picture of your "celebrity twin." In all fairness, I've seen a few good ones. Maybe 10% of them are legit. The other 90%? No. Just...no. I want to personally message most of my friends and ask them WHO told them they looked like Drew Barrymore, because last time I checked, she didn't have a lazy eye. Moral of the story: Just because some drunk guy trying to take you home uses the line "YOU LOOK JUST LIKE BRITNEY SPEARS" doesn't mean you do. Brown hair and brown eyes do not an Anne Hathaway make. In the words of Eric, it's doppelganger week - not delusional week.

xoxo