The Internet Personified: You too can overthink like me
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Yesterday someone says to me, he says, "You guys are always having parties!" It was a longer conversation, I was attempting to banter, but I may have gotten out of the bantering habit, since I have been ridiculously earnie (earnest, see even as I'm expanding that word for your comprehension, that's an earnie thing to do) of late. I blame social media--can we all just agree to blame social media for everything? On social media, you've got to s-p-e-l-l i-t o-u-t. If someone gets a new job, say, you can type, "Congratulations!" and then, feeling like you sound too much like someone's mother (not mine, she has not embraced social media, I have not encouraged it) you add a quip: "so when are you buying me drinks?" And then you press enter, send the comment into the world, and an ordinary person's thoughts would end right there. Not me, though. Nope. I will then gaze at my own words. Is there not something slightly needy about
The Internet Personified: You too can overthink like me
The Internet Personified: You too can…
The Internet Personified: You too can overthink like me
Yesterday someone says to me, he says, "You guys are always having parties!" It was a longer conversation, I was attempting to banter, but I may have gotten out of the bantering habit, since I have been ridiculously earnie (earnest, see even as I'm expanding that word for your comprehension, that's an earnie thing to do) of late. I blame social media--can we all just agree to blame social media for everything? On social media, you've got to s-p-e-l-l i-t o-u-t. If someone gets a new job, say, you can type, "Congratulations!" and then, feeling like you sound too much like someone's mother (not mine, she has not embraced social media, I have not encouraged it) you add a quip: "so when are you buying me drinks?" And then you press enter, send the comment into the world, and an ordinary person's thoughts would end right there. Not me, though. Nope. I will then gaze at my own words. Is there not something slightly needy about