This whole F My Life thing has gone way too far. I remember discovering the site earlier in the semester and laughing with Margo at some of the unfortunate, but not life-shatteringly-devestating, stories about bad sexual experiences. Since coming out, it has become this phenomenon for people under 25 to abuse this retardedly exaggerated phrase on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, AIM, and worst of all: IRL.
For all you n00bs out there, FML translates to “f*** my life” and the site’s tagline is “my life sucks but i don’t give a f***.” FALSE. The douchebags that use this phrase every five seconds (e.g. I am out of milk and must go to the grocery store, FML) obviously DO give a fuck considering they think their ridiculously average life needs to be F’d in the A. It kills me how people use it in situations that they think are just SO HYSTERICAL when in reality they wouldn’t even be interesting if Diddy did it.
And honestly… it’s sad that the people who really have something awful happen to them even think that they can exploit how shitty their situation is online for some anonymous street cred. If my son just died, I wouldn’t be formulating the perfect moderately-witty way to basically say, “Today, my son died (YOU BASTARDS!) FML.”
What really happened was this… the site was funny and not too annoyingly hyped at first so everyone constantly refreshed that page for dear life (did I mention that everyone discovered it during midterms??) Then, like the disease it is, it started forcing its way into everyday language and onto 2/5 of all facebook status updates. Now every douchy vampire kid that (GASP!) has a homework assignment and wants to whine to the world about it feels like hot shit because their status that once read “ughhhh homework assignments SUCK i HATE LIFE why does school SUCK” now read “Today, I got assigned more work than the slaves on my great grandfather’s plantation. FML.”
Today, I saw the phrase “FML” on 15 facebook statuses. FML
NV/R,
Maria
p.s. can you spot all the South Park references?
The first time I read this site, my thoughts went something like this:
Today, I read FML. FML.
NV/R,
Margo
I don’t like the site much. I hate how they all have the same structure, and most of them are not funny at all. I quit visiting. If I wanted to waste time on a site that’s only funny 10% of the time, I’d go to 4chan
GAY FISH is a South Park reference! what do I get for spotting it??
i agree, the site was funny for about mmm a day and then i was completely over it. awesome closing line, i would most certainly sympathize with you if i came across that on the FML website ;D