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jigglyball
03/06/09

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I'm just going to say it: I hate unsolicited surveys like Facebook's 25 things, hate when my friends update their gmail statuses with the minute details of their lives every few minutes, and I don't have the slightest inclination to jump into the Twitter ring. I'm so sick of the implicit message that I GIVE A CRAP ABOUT EVERY TINY THING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU EVERY DAY, BECAUSE GUESS WHAT, THE SAME STUFF HAPPENS TO ME TOO, AND I'M SICK OF YOU ACTING LIKE IT'S SPECIAL OR UNIQUE OR SIGNIFICANT OR DRAMATIC.

Whew, I feel better.
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Brigit
03/06/09

@jigglyball: Mr.B and I have solved this with a new hobby. Each week we take some beers and snark at all the ridiculous shit some of our facebook friends add/write.

And yes, we are totally mean assholes while we do it, but if we accumulate all the eye-rolling, sighing over stupid moves, and WTF-ing that large social circles cause we'd be psychotic by now.
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jigglyball
03/06/09

@Brigit: Oh my lord, that's perfect. I think the jigglyboyfriend and I need to break out some IPAs and our laptops tonight and lay some fresh snark on our most self-obsessed friends.

I almost exploded this week because a friend was posting each and every mile time from each and every run she took this week (that's five runs of at least five miles-SO MANY UPDATES). And here's the thing- I run a hell of a lot faster than she does, but I don't kid myself into thinking that anyone else gives a flying fuck. So yes, planned snarking would let me vent just this kind of steam. Thanks for giving me some Friday night plans!
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Brigit
03/06/09

@jigglyball: There's always someone like that! Last week's offender made a multi-update melodrama about publishing as, 2nd author, a research article- in a communication, actually. And in the beginning she didn't aknowledge the work of the 1st author. Dude, it's not an Oscar - you don't need an acceptance speech.

But you see, then I write this and I feel like a totally jaded bitch - which is why I don't write or say shit like that. Venting over beer with my partner in crime is the only way to not explode.
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NewsBunny
03/06/09

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I'm 35.
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Brigit
03/06/09

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I'm surprised. I didn't know celebs caused rage, just headaches due to extensive eye-rolling. The more you learn ...
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kaiwhakamarie
03/06/09

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I think some of my snark about Gwyneth's blog has to do with Gwyneth herself. I just don't like her. I don't really know why, I just never have. There is something very cold and snobbish about her. I can't pinpoint it. I'm a fan of her husband and her Mother. Neither of THEM seem cold and snobbish, particularly. She's just very hard to relate to. She always looks like a statue, her quotes are always so self-centered and out of touch, and her acting is wooden. She just doesn't seem quite human to me.

I'm thinking if Kate Winslet or even somebody like Jennifer Aniston were to write similar blogs/newsletters...well, I still probably wouldn't subscribe but I wouldn't be shitting all over it quite as much, either. But then again, those ladies would probably never be so presumptuous as to assume 'the fans' want or need their advice.
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tscheese
03/06/09

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OH MY GOD! BREAKING NEWS! PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF EACH OTHER ON THE INTERNET! FILM AT 11!
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MadFab
03/06/09

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I am a trend-bucking 40-year-old who hangs on my own rants in a terribly masturbatory and yet empowering way. Nor do I read celebrity blogs or care that they exist.

Take that, AdAge! Aha! I win this round. (But I still love you. Call me, OK?)
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badmutha
03/06/09

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Honestly, are we going to be ageist and sexist, AdAge? I am a mature woman of a certain age, and I enjoy caterwauling at the patriarchy like any other fucking dyke. Why must you interfere and judge?
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clevernamehere
03/06/09

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I don't mind "25 things" because they are written by people I actually know and sometimes they are interesting.

What I can't stand is celeb blogs that are self-important. HuffPo is the worst for this. I don't care what Alec Baldwin thinks about the Iraq War, I'd rather hear from a policy wonk, a grunt in the field, or a former general. Being famous does not mean that your opinion is suddenly important or well informed.

I don't mind celeb blogging if its reasonably interesting. I'm not Facebook friends with Lindsay Lohan, but I can see the appeal of reading her crazy status updates. Mindy Kaling's fashion blog is cute, even though I don't like most of the clothes. Gwenyth is just ridiculous. She doesn't have to pretend that she makes 25k/yr but she should understand that some people do make 25k/yr and feed their kids tinned soup. If she was less obnoxiously self-involved, people would make fun of her less.
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counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good
03/06/09

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But if people on the internet don't tell me what to think, like and hate, who else will? WHO?
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Lizawithazee
03/06/09

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The ad rate sheet says 82% of Jezebel readers are 18-34, 97% are female (74% of Gawker readers are female).

It looks like Jezebel also had its highest number of visitors and page visits in February.

One can learn a lot by looking at a publication's advertising rate sheet.
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ihateyourescalade
03/06/09

@Lizawithazee: Keep in mind, though, that all publishing companies, no doubt including the Gawker Industrial Complex, shamelessly inflate their numbers.
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tscheese
03/06/09

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1. Sleb acts kind of out-of-touch
2. Sleb says, "OMG THAY HAVE BLAGS NOW! LET ME WRITE TO IT, DEAR BLAG, LOOK AT MY HAIR."
3. Internet discovers it.
4. Internet finds it mildly ridiculous.
5. Sleb: "Oh my god, you guys are so mean, you don't GET me."
6. Someone else discovers that the "Internet" is making "fun" of a "celebrity," and gets all meta about it.
7. The internet discusses that someone getting meta about the Internet talking about the blog of a celebrity on THEIR blog.
8. Tscheese sells all her things and moves to Antarctica.
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kaiwhakamarie
03/06/09

@tscheese: That made me crack up.

And the first few on the list totally describe several people I know that are not 'slebs'.
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whatsername
03/06/09

@tscheese:
9. tscheese starts a blog about life in Antarctica.
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easternsike
03/06/09

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get with the times adage!!!! don't you realize the new facebook fad is labeling all your friends acccording to pictures of cartoons. not 25 things about me. that shit has been around since email.
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Khrushchev
03/06/09

@easternsike: Yeah, what is that shit?
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Scoithniamh
03/06/09

@easternsike: @Khrushchev: ...but seriously, WHAT IS THAT?
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Khrushchev
03/06/09

@Scoithniamh: Seriously, can we get someone to come in and explain it? What is that?
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t-yo3
03/06/09

@easternsike: Oh dog, that shit is getting on my nerves. I can't wait for it to be over already.
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Hana Maru
03/06/09

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Personally, I don't get angry about GOOP, or any of the female celebrities Jez likes to hate on so much . I don't even hate Elisabeth Hasselbeck, but that's maybe because they all talk over each other on The View and I can barely understand any of them.

Many of us here are bloggers, which no one asked us to be. We just had thoughts, ideas, recipes, and photos and we decided to put the out there in the hope of sharing them with people for nothing but a little narcissistic pleasure in the occasional feedback. I see no reason to shame female celebrities for doing the same. Like the editors here say, don't click on it if you don't want it. If I don't want it, it wasn't for me anyway.
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ihateyourescalade
03/06/09

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This is only a tangential comment, but the Internet is in a way "to blame" for the new wave of lame celebrity advice. Before the Nets made it cheap and easy to spread the gospel, some publishing company would have to decide if it was worth the substantial cost to back a celebrity's vanity project. The cost served as a gatekeeper--which is now gone.
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Cerridwen
03/06/09

@ihateyourescalade: On one hand, I am really excited about the lack of the prohibitive cost factor when it comes to publishing (my friend and I were just discussing an idea we have for an anthology of essays that we really want to self-publish), but I also cringe at how it has flooded the world with utterly self-indulgent narcissim as well. I like the democratization of self-publishing and the fact that more people can have the opportunity to share their ideas, but it does sometimes lead to a culture in which people think that anything and everything is worth sharing and that everyone should be happy to receive it. As with all things, it is a double-edged sword, I suppose.
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Cerridwen
03/06/09

@Cerridwen: I guess the distinction is between works of real worth and vanity projects? But how do "we" decide what is of real worth?
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ihateyourescalade
03/06/09

@Cerridwen: I'd rather read your self-published essays than any so-called pearls of wisdom from Gwyneth Paltrow.
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I, Zombie Normal
03/06/09

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Poor Gwynnie Antoinette, she just doesn't understand why the internet peasants are rioting; can't they just wear cashmere socks and eat at 5 star restaurants in Paris like she does?
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Scoithniamh
03/06/09

@AbbyNormal: Braincrazy FemiZombie: No, our inner aspects are malnourished.
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