Jul. 7th, 2004 04:20 pm
Curiosity killed the...
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The topic for today is Memes.
You either love them or hate them. The questions that spring to mind are-
1. What makes them so interesting to you?
2. What makes them interesting enough to post?
3. Do you read all the ones in your friends list, or just a certain kind?
4. How do you prefer to have them presented- full on or behind a cut?
5. When do memes go from interesting to annoying- how much is too much? (This can go for quantity or quality)
[for inquiring minds: my answers are]. . .
1. depends on my mood, but short, funny, and usually not random generator-based
2. So rare, I don't remember.
3. again, depends on my mood/how busy I am.
4. behind a cut, always and forever amen.
5. quantity- not keen when a meme makes more than a few appearances in one day. quality- see answers 1 and 3.
You either love them or hate them. The questions that spring to mind are-
1. What makes them so interesting to you?
2. What makes them interesting enough to post?
3. Do you read all the ones in your friends list, or just a certain kind?
4. How do you prefer to have them presented- full on or behind a cut?
5. When do memes go from interesting to annoying- how much is too much? (This can go for quantity or quality)
[for inquiring minds: my answers are]. . .
1. depends on my mood, but short, funny, and usually not random generator-based
2. So rare, I don't remember.
3. again, depends on my mood/how busy I am.
4. behind a cut, always and forever amen.
5. quantity- not keen when a meme makes more than a few appearances in one day. quality- see answers 1 and 3.
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Insight into the trivial and not-so-trivial parts of the minds of my friends. How are we different or the same w/respect to a given meme?
2. What makes them interesting enough to post?
The extent to which the criteria in 1) are satisfied. Or sometimes because they are just amusing.
3. Do you read all the ones in your friends list, or just a certain kind?
I read most of them.
4. How do you prefer to have them presented- full on or behind a cut?
Don't really care-if the meme is Really Big, it's nice to have it behind a cut, so it doesn't fill up the whole screen with LOOKATMYMEME!!!!
5. When do memes go from interesting to annoying- how much is too much? (This can go for quantity or quality)
I don't really know. Most of my LJ-friends are thinking people, and tend to post their own thoughts, with a sprinkling of memes, rather than being memesheep. So it hasn't gotten annoying yet, to me.
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but my answers are exactly the same as yours.
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Actually, not so. I love surveys, loathe most of the randomly generated things, and am indifferent to many of the memes between the two extremes.
1. What makes them so interesting to you?
I like the ones that give me insight into my friends. Or myself.
2. What makes them interesting enough to post?
Good question. On the "slow news day" theory, I've been guilty of posting an occasional less-than-scintillating meme just to keep my brain in working order and my LJ from gathering dust. I usually don't bother, though, unless I think at least a few people will be moderately interested for whatever reason.
3. Do you read all the ones in your friends list, or just a certain kind?
I'll at least skim all those on my "everyday" reading filter -- there are a couple of people whose LJs are so egregiously full of memes (and very little content) that they don't even get skimmed daily, just glanced at once in a blue moon. I'll read through anything that looks like a survey, though.
4. How do you prefer to have them presented- full on or behind a cut?
Behind a cut, unless they're a paragraph or less.
5. When do memes go from interesting to annoying- how much is too much? (This can go for quantity or quality)
When most folks on my friends page are posting something heavy on the fluff and light on the informational content. Hasn't happened in a while, though.
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They usually aren't. Unless they're so right they're scary.
2. What makes them interesting enough to post?
Weird, funny, abnormal.
3. Do you read all the ones in your friends list, or just a certain kind?
*laugh* Depends on the person. Mostly, I hardly read my friends list, only certain people that I truly care about.
4. How do you prefer to have them presented- full on or behind a cut?
Behind a cut, baybee.
5. When do memes go from interesting to annoying- how much is too much? (This can go for quantity or quality)
Ugh. I hate when there's not a single real post in my 20 or 25 posts my page goes back. Unfortunately, a lot of my friends have the same common friends.. so when one does a meme.. most will do it. There should be a meme community. I think that will be my new task.
What you said
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- I do like memes that are about actual people, like survey, or "real" tests (like personality surveys). I also like it when people talk *about* the meme -- why they did it, etc.
- The cut is a MUST for graphics or ones where the loading depends on some non-LJ server. Others depends on length...I don't mind seeing a 5 liner, and in fact, I'd rather not have a link that forces me to click for something short.