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I don't understand how it is hilarious, though I've been told my sense of humor is a bit odd. Inflicting pain and embarrassment on complete strangers by steali
by jacoblyles 17y ago
I don't understand how it is hilarious, though I've been told my sense of humor is a bit odd.
Inflicting pain and embarrassment on complete strangers by stealing their log in information and violating their privacy - is that your idea of a good time?
Empathy pro-tip: ignore who the target was, and pretend the attack happened to someone close to you. How does that make you feel?
- jrockway 17y agoHow does that make you feel? If my friend had a fake message posted under his or her account, I would probably not feel all that bad. The issue of password reuse aside, it is really not a big deal. "Haha, my account got hacked, I didn't actually have sex with him!" and that's the end of it. Some people try to add wayyy too much meaning to their lives...
- thenextweb 17y agoWell, imagine going to your fathers profile page and seeing a photo of him with shit on his dick. After YOU persuaded him that being on Facebook would be fun. Maybe not so funny after all...
- encoderer 17y agoBut it's also not some tragedy, either. It's a practical joke. A prank. That is all.
- thenextweb 17y agoHey, that might be clear to you but for 99% of the people checking out those profiles it might take a while for that to sink in.
- jacoblyles 17y agoYeah, I doubt it would cause too much trouble in my peer group either. But I know people outside my peer group, my friends' parents for example, who don't take everything as lightly as our nihilistic generation.
- unalone 17y agoSo in order not to be nihilistic, you have to take everything too seriously? Screw that! I can find meaning and joy in existence and still not think Facebook is worth getting upset over.
- chrischen 17y agoIf it happened to my friend i'd laugh my ass off. But if it happened to me? not so much.
- unalone 17y agoWhy not? It's funny. Congratulate the people who humiliated you, and go on with your life.
- chrischen 17y agoJust cause you would like it doesn't mean everyone would.
- pyre 17y agoI'm thinking that the point is 'everyone should.'
- chrischen 17y agoOh and it's also not that funny... Maybe it's just me? Well I do love seeing people suffer and get hurt. Love those Japanese game shows, but these people didn't ask for it. The were targetted causes they were Christian?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoSome people try to add wayyy too much meaning to their lives... Yeah, those people who have some kind of standards and live their life for some higher purpose, they're really taking this entire living thing way too seriously. They should just laugh it off when somebody takes their identity and has them say things they never would. Did I get that right? Is that what you're saying?
- sho 17y agoYou sound like you're trying to be sarcastic, but read plainly that sounds pretty reasonable. Especially since $DEITY would, being omniscient, know all about the deception and not dock them any Heaven Points. Hell, isn't being oppressed what religious people like? They should welcome this as an opportunity to show their unconcern with worldly things. $DEITY will be most impressed. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of his tests.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoSorry -- you're spinning off into religion-land. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that the entire purpose of a life, any life, is what value you give it. If you like trees, or unicorns, or puppies, or whatever -- that's really all you have: your definition of yourself. For somebody to assume your identity and make statements that go against everything you stand for -- whatever your value system -- that's about the worse thing you can do to a person, save actually physically harming them. This has nothing to do with religion or Christianity, except, I guess, that people think it's funny to pick on Christians in a way that would be reprehensible if done against any other group. Would you like to imagine what kinds of jokes we can make against ethnic groups? Minorities? People who are retarded? It's obvious that these "jokes" wouldn't be funny at all. Why the brain freeze when it's done against Christians?
- petercooper 17y agoI'm saying that the entire purpose of a life, any life, is what value you give it. If you like trees, or unicorns, or puppies, or whatever -- that's really all you have: your definition of yourself. Right, and not what other people think of you or your opinions. Unless you also consider a purpose of your life is what other people think of you and your statements.
- eli 17y agoUgh. How old are you?
- eli 17y agoYeah? And the one with the fake suicide note? That would be a funny joke if it was your little sister?
- mburney 17y agoWe can't always align our sense of empathy with our sense of humor. Ever seen comedy movies or sitcoms where all kinds of embarrassing things happen to the characters as a result of malicious outside forces?
- barrkel 17y agoBy this logic, the Darwin Awards aren't funny either. Yes, these people aren't culpable in the same way, yes it's a bad analogy, but it doesn't stop it from being funny.
- spooneybarger 17y agoif it happened to someone close to me, it would still be simultaneously awful and hilarious.