Tag: social media

What, exactly, victory condition is achieved by taking a picture of your genitals?

Perhaps I am simply old. But I am with Sonny Bunch on this:

…I do not understand what is accomplished by taking a picture of your penis and then showing that picture to a woman. I am certain that if this was an infallible way to make that woman engage in sexual congress with you then this practice would have been popularized in the first days of daguerreotypes. In fact, I am trying to think of a situation where things would be improved with a good round of Hey, let me show you this photo of my junk, and failing.

Again, I must be just getting old.

Moe Lane

PS: Forget my lawn: you kids GET OFF OF SOCIAL MEDIA.  It’s just messing up your lives.

Amazing what a sufficiently loud complaint about iTunes…

…can accomplish, huh?  Yeah, they finally realized that I had bought that dang album and charged my PayPal account accordingly.  I wonder whether it was just my request for information on how to go about cancelling my order that caused iTunes to process said order. And if I did get expedited treatment because of my (somewhat modest) social media presence, I wonder whether it was more due to the blog, or to Twitter.  I have more reach with the latter*.

Moe Lane

*Either a little more or a lot more, depending on whether I’m using my effective access to @RedState. That account’s 130K followers is nothing to sneeze at, but I only can use it for political stuff.

Why the government cannot social-media the young into signing up for #Obamacare.

This morning, while running errands with kids in tow, I did something that I try not to do (and usually regret doing): I listened to CSPAN radio when they were taking comments. Normally, this is a mistake of epic proportions: CSPAN callers typically are like Youtube commenters who have been hit with an Evolvo-Ray, only it’s a prototype and there’s still that pesky stress atavism problem. In other words, you have to switch things back to classic rock pretty darn quick – only before I could, the poor panelists who couldn’t escape the onrushing black tide were gamely trying to work out how to get young people into the Obamacare exchanges. I believe that the consensus was: lots and lots of social media.

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#rsrh I slightly disagree with Jimmie Bise…

…on his two rules of social media (via Instapundit) you can in fact be a jerk.  I am quite often a jerk, for example – and by most reasonable standards I’ve done quite well out of the political blogosphere*.  What I’ve done is merely ensure that my jerkiness is directed towards my political enemies, which I have picked out with some care and attention**.  Outside of that circle, I am downright easygoing.

So I guess I think that the second rule should be “Don’t be an unreliable jerk;” the first rule (“Be useful”) I have no problem with.

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