The questions for this one are meant to be freely available for the asking, but I'm hoping at least a few people will think about what this sort of thing means the next time one of these "secret question" type things comes up.
This meme made me feel a little ickyprincessmeiSeptember 11 2008, 13:51:57 UTC
I hadn't done it, so I didn't know the questions. But I'd seen my name and other names pop up a few places and it reminded me of bad high school cafeteria drama.
I was torn between asking for the meme so I could find out what was being said about me, and refusing to ask for the meme, because I don't like memes like this. As usual, my ambivalence kept me from taking any action at all.
Thank you for posting this. I feel both better and worse now.
Re: This meme made me feel a little ickyaigletSeptember 11 2008, 14:05:19 UTC
I sort of figured by the time I posted this an awful lot of people would have seen their names or their friends' names flying by on lists for this meme.
Sigh. Perhaps the people involved never had to go through the kind of backstabbing gossip drama that leads all of us to be so twitchy? At least one person I know seems to think of it as an experiment in information-spreading, which tells me that this person has probably never had an entire social group implode under the weight of "he said she said you said that I said that X was a bitch" or "I heard that so-and-so is a horrible person so I'm not going to be friends with them even though I can't remember who I heard it from or what it was exactly that was said" type drama.
Re: This meme made me feel a little ickyscifantasySeptember 11 2008, 14:18:18 UTC
this person has probably never had an entire social group implode under the weight of "he said she said you said that I said that X was a bitch" or "I heard that so-and-so is a horrible person so I'm not going to be friends with them even though I can't remember who I heard it from or what it was exactly that was said" type drama.
...yeah, that's pretty much the case. In my experiences, social groups have either just fallen apart over time and distance, or blown up/imploded due to actual sayings or events. *shrug* Maybe my friends put less stock in circumstantial evidence.
(It probably contributes that I wasn't huge on "social groups" in high school, which is where this type of thing apparently runs rife.)
Re: This meme made me feel a little ickyaigletSeptember 11 2008, 21:42:03 UTC
My senior year of college was a really messy example of social group implosion, culminating in an ex of mine telling everyone in the group that he was mad at me and why, and making them all *promise not to tell me what the reason was.*
I'm just a mite twitchy about "I'm going to say something publicly about you and not tell you what it is."
I'd managed to not know this meme was going around, but then, I don't read memes, unless they are "have you eaten these foods" types, which I find interesting as I tend to cook for people a lot.
It seems to be a lot more drama causing than is strictly necessary, and I'm planning to refrain from playing if it ever does come up on the old flist.
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I strongly suspect so, though.
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The questions for this one are meant to be freely available for the asking, but I'm hoping at least a few people will think about what this sort of thing means the next time one of these "secret question" type things comes up.
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I hadn't done it, so I didn't know the questions. But I'd seen my name and other names pop up a few places and it reminded me of bad high school cafeteria drama.
I was torn between asking for the meme so I could find out what was being said about me, and refusing to ask for the meme, because I don't like memes like this. As usual, my ambivalence kept me from taking any action at all.
Thank you for posting this. I feel both better and worse now.
-Megs
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Sigh. Perhaps the people involved never had to go through the kind of backstabbing gossip drama that leads all of us to be so twitchy? At least one person I know seems to think of it as an experiment in information-spreading, which tells me that this person has probably never had an entire social group implode under the weight of "he said she said you said that I said that X was a bitch" or "I heard that so-and-so is a horrible person so I'm not going to be friends with them even though I can't remember who I heard it from or what it was exactly that was said" type drama.
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...yeah, that's pretty much the case. In my experiences, social groups have either just fallen apart over time and distance, or blown up/imploded due to actual sayings or events. *shrug* Maybe my friends put less stock in circumstantial evidence.
(It probably contributes that I wasn't huge on "social groups" in high school, which is where this type of thing apparently runs rife.)
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I'm just a mite twitchy about "I'm going to say something publicly about you and not tell you what it is."
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It seems to be a lot more drama causing than is strictly necessary, and I'm planning to refrain from playing if it ever does come up on the old flist.
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::sigh::
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