Because our overlords are teaching us to not think for ourselves and do as the mob says. A lot of people fall right in line and put up no fight.
Take care of those titties for me.
Quote: (07-02-2015 04:03 AM)Seboist Wrote:
I've seen this shit on Tinder too.
Quote: (07-02-2015 10:02 AM)Sonsowey Wrote:That is spot on. Seems like FB mirrors people's need for attention as well. It has to do keep doing shit to keep it, adjusting, buying, snooping to try to maintain itself as relevant. So it does crazier and crazier shit. FB allows for insanity but also creates it. But it is good for researching people.
You basically have to delete facebook to maintain your sanity these days.
Quote: (07-02-2015 01:12 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
What do you guys reckon is the psychology behind this 'rainbow knighting', especially for straight men?
Quote: (07-02-2015 01:12 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
I guess it was fag pride day a few days ago, and a ton of my Facebook friends overlayed their FB profile pics with a rainbow image.
I'm sure you all have seen it too.
What do you guys reckon is the psychology behind this 'rainbow knighting', especially for straight men?
What's the secondary payoff of declaring "I fully support dudes banging each others' buttholes?"
Quote: (07-02-2015 10:02 AM)Sonsowey Wrote:
You basically have to delete facebook to maintain your sanity these days.
Quote: (07-02-2015 08:31 AM)Libertas Wrote:
It's a way to status whore.
Human beings have always competed for status. Nowadays we compete for status by showing how good of a person we are and instilling warm feels. By displaying the rainbow flag on your profile picture, you're essentially telling people to admire you because of how enlightened and accepting and tolerant you are.
Quote: (07-02-2015 12:21 PM)Renzy Wrote:This is an excellent point. It's like non-explicitly stated tolerance is not good enough. Kind of a big jump, but it sorta mirrors the "yes means yes" nonsense. If not are not actively, explicitly expressing your position ("tolerance") or intentions ("sex!!!"), you're either part of the problem or you're perpetuating the problem.
Quote: (07-02-2015 08:31 AM)Libertas Wrote:
It's a way to status whore.
Human beings have always competed for status. Nowadays we compete for status by showing how good of a person we are and instilling warm feels. By displaying the rainbow flag on your profile picture, you're essentially telling people to admire you because of how enlightened and accepting and tolerant you are.
It's the liberal version of "praying in public".
Matthew 6:5 "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward."
Unfortunately, social media just seems to encourage this sort of ostentatious moral preening.
Quote: (07-02-2015 08:37 AM)Lucky Wrote:
Quote: (07-02-2015 07:35 AM)Sonsowey Wrote:
Signalling
It's just in-group signalling all the way down.
Yep. Status signalling with more than a hint of narcissism.
This paper cites a report that asked Prius owners to list their top five reasons why they purchased the car, the number one reason given was because it “makes a statement about me.”
Quote: (07-02-2015 11:02 AM)kleyau Wrote:
Kony people are all about the feels. And predominately women.
Quote: (07-04-2015 01:02 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Not to inject race into this, but this is why it's good to have minority friends. None of my black friends and hardly any Latino friends changed their pic to the rainbow. Virtually all that changed it are white(SWPL).