Digital Citizen

Warning: This post contains offensive humour so if that’s not your thing, please do not read.

In March 2009, Facebook tagging was all the rage. As I used to be a graphic designer, I created many of these memes, rather than steal from different sites and repost. However, because most people were doing the latter, many people stole mine and my traffic dwindled. Relatively. It went from thousands of page views per day to hundreds.

But that was OK. I was hoping my memes would get stolen. That was my indicator that they were worth something. Judging all the places where they got stolen and posted to, I would have to say they were pretty good, hehehe.

Too bad some people took credit for them or branded them with their logos and removed mine, even if it just said “found on” rather than something like “created by”.

Anyhow, fast forward to 2010. My memes are still getting downloaded, but not nearly as much. Now, though, it’s probably more in part due to Facebook tagging no longer being the rage it once was, rather than the dilution of reposts all over the Internet.

People have also gotten smarter on Facebook behaviour not to engage in many of the Facebook tagging themes. This is especially true for memes that may not promote an image of them that they’d like to project to certain “friends” they have on Facebook.

So with all that, I’d like to flaunt my sense of humour a little bit to share some Facebook tagging memes which I rejected during my days of brainstorming memes to create for people’s Facebook fun.

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