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This article didn't really clear up the definition for me. What are the factors that determine the expected result? Is it ironic that complaining about Facebo

• UntitledNo4 13y ago
  It is, but only if you're Mark Zuckerberg. And even then, it would be so if you meant it as a private message to the Facebook executives and it ended up being public due to privacy settings changes which you designed. Edit: Actually, I misread your last sentence. It still isn't ironic, unless you were trying to teach someone what irony was and that was your example of irony.
  • nsmartt 13y ago
    My reasoning is this: - It would be ironic to complain about a less famously terrible social network on said social network - It wouldn't be ironic with Facebook because it's popular opinion that Facebook is terrible and that its users are prone to complaining on Facebook - It would be ironic that it's not ironic to complain on Facebook about Facebook on Facebook because complaining about X social network on X social network would be ironic
• dclowd9901 13y ago
  > Is it ironic that complaining about Facebook on Facebook is not ironic? Only if you had just come into this knowledge for the first time, and only up until now having believed that complaining about Facebook on Facebook is the epitome of irony.