When someone posts a picture of a typewriter or an outhouse or a wringer with the caption “Share if you remember this,” it doesn’t appeal to me at all because what they are essentially saying is “share if you are over 50 years old or so” and it seems rather pointless to me. If they are data gathering, they should already have that info from your profile. If it’s sincerely a bunch of senior citizens who just want to cybernetically connect and reminisce…well, I’m not terribly interested in that, either.
Whenever somebody says “Share if you agree” or “Share if you like x” it’s the same as the old “Honk if you…” which, as far as I know, never changed the level of honking significantly anywhere over an extended period of time, so it was always kind of pointless and sad and yet it’s been updated. And it’s a good thing that all the “honk if you…” bumper stickers were generally ignored, because otherwise the sound of traffic would have been a non-stop cacaphony of blaring horns, the whole world become Manhattan, like the vuvuzelas at the African world cup four years back.
I also ignore those “Share if you agree…” type posts, almost always, even when I agree.
Maybe I’m being a slacker. I’ve got lots of friends who are big on one cause or another and posting stuff, some of which might deserve to be shared. Lots of friends are big on gay rights, and even more on feminist issues. I get several requests a day to sign petitions in support of legalized marijuana. I support legal marijuana. Wholeheartedly. I’m stoned right now. But you could spend your whole life signing petitions, if you got into it. I’ve got a handful of passionate anti-Monsanto people, and people telling me I shouldn’t eat at McDonald’s.
There was one post I got today: ‘Watch this video and you’ll never eat McDonald’s french fries again.’ I replied “Well, I guess I’d better not watch the video, then.” Because I like McDonald’s fries.
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