So what do you guys think about the Umentioned Mac thing
12-18-2012 at 10:03 PM
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So what do you guys think about the Umentioned Mac thing
on facebook?
I think it's adorable..
Some of the posts are so cute,
some are really sweet (the one about the lady at tims made me smile) 
and others just plain entertaining.
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12-18-2012 at 11:39 PM
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It's a fad that'll burn out just as Likealittle did, but uMentioned Mac is great
...at highlighting the difference between what's okay in reality versus what's okay online. Of course reading about it is cute, but don't kid yourself-- if you're a girl and a stranger approached you with a line you found adorable on uMentioned Mac, it's more likely than not you'd probably tell him to back the **** off and stop being a creep, as opposed to inviting him to have a chat over coffee.
Before someone replies with something like "Of course I wouldn't do that, it takes a guy with confidence to do something like that and girls dig confidence", try to remember that the person writing about you probably isn't what you imagine them to be. It's almost human nature to paint an idealized picture of someone without a name or a face writing about you and hang onto that, but reality will rarely live up to your expectations. As much as we all hate to admit it, physical attraction plays at least some part in who we're willing to give a chance to. Of course not every woman will turn down the approach of a stranger, but the stranger's got a significantly better chance of not getting shot down if they're good-looking.
It seems like I'm attacking women, but men are just as guilty of this-- I just don't feel like rewriting the above in a gender-neutral manner.
I just saw the post from uMentioned Mac him/herself congratulating the "courage" of anyone who's submitted an entry. What the **** is that? How is anonymously admitting you've got your eye on someone even a remote display of courage? If that's what courage is, then I gotta give huge props to the people that graffiti in washroom stalls. At least they don't try to glamourize their intentions with sweet talk.
What possible good could come of this? At best, someone admits that they're the one that wrote about you on uMentioned Mac. Then what? How do you expect to hold a conversation while in the back of your mind, you're going to be thinking "This is the person who stared at me for ten minutes as I was studying in Mills"?
Or course, it's not all bad. I'm sure that based solely on the number of people active on it, something good is bound to come out of it for at least one or two people. I can't deny its entertainment value, but as a proprietor of trying to blur the line between reality and the online world, uMentioned Mac isn't helping one bit.
tl;dr: I'm bitter uMentioned Mac hasn't friended me yet
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12-18-2012 at 11:48 PM
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..it raises people's confidence and makes their day
when someone writes about you, you'll begin to love it
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12-19-2012 at 12:07 AM
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Lol Entropy, great post. Not gonna lie, the umentioned posts are really entertaining and some of them are actually meaningful. Overall I think it's cute. Not something people need to get too serious about and worked up over. It's just for fun and it has helped some people!!!
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says thanks to lt93 for this post.
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12-19-2012 at 12:21 AM
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Whats Umentioned?
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12-19-2012 at 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Leeoku
Whats Umentioned?
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http://www.facebook.com/umentioned.mac?fref=t s
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12-19-2012 at 12:41 AM
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i thought it was a troll thing at first. i dont find it entertaining or anything tho. kinda annoying since its all i see on my newsfeed now
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12-19-2012 at 12:46 AM
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you can turn off the notifications...
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12-19-2012 at 12:49 AM
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How do we know that the creator of UMentioned Mac isn't some fat guy behind a computer whose goal is to befriend everyone at McMaster in order to stalk everyone's profiles?
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12-19-2012 at 12:51 AM
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It probably is, too lol
but out of 4000 friends, I'm really not too worried about him stalking my profile..
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12-19-2012 at 12:53 AM
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I see UMentioned Western, UMentioned York, and UMentioned Dalhousie popping up.... I think this guy/girl is planning to take control of Canada's Universities one by one...
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12-19-2012 at 12:59 AM
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a little paranoid, are we? lol
you're probably right about them, though.. it seems like they lack a social life..
..being on an anonymous facebook account 24/7, copy/pasting random people's comments...
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12-19-2012 at 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by SweetyTweety
It probably is, too lol
but out of 4000 friends, I'm really not too worried about him stalking my profile..
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You wouldn't have to worry much provided this guy's got a life. If that's not the case, going through 4000 profiles to select stalk-worthy ones might not be much work lol. |
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12-19-2012 at 05:28 AM
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I thought it was a good idea in theory, but now that it became so popular with 1 post every couple mins then it mostly just gets ignored.
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12-19-2012 at 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Entropy
Before someone replies with something like "Of course I wouldn't do that, it takes a guy with confidence to do something like that and girls dig confidence", try to remember that the person writing about you probably isn't what you imagine them to be. It's almost human nature to paint an idealized picture of someone without a name or a face writing about you and hang onto that, but reality will rarely live up to your expectations.
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It's true. Here's an actual picture of the person behind uMentioned Mac.
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