Word: blogging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There's nothing like sweet, sweet schadenfreude to put you in the holiday spirit. Just in time for Festivus, FAIL Blog - the cult compendium of real-life blunders, pratfalls and bad moves (like a Pepsi machine selling only Coke and a toilet with a "no diving" sign) - has tallied votes from some 100,000 visitors to compile three sets of the top 10 FAILs of 2009. Let's face it: there have been plenty to choose from. (See the 25 best blogs...
...myriad alleged mistresses went public, but in a late surge he nonetheless earned an honorable mention.) Claiming the top spot on both the FAIL moments and FAIL people lists is Kanye ("I'ma let you finish") West. (See a video of Ben Huh, patron saint of FAIL blog...
...time here, one that serves to express more about the Harvard undergraduate community than Yardfest, The Game or Ec10 combined. Whether or not the intention was to provide a new mechanism by which to examine life here, or just act as a local application of the popular fmylife blog, is irrelevant to me. By this point, Harvardfml has been around long enough that we can begin assessing its effects on Crimson culture. I like to think of my many hours spent sifting through posts as a kind of procrastinatory self-anthropology, and I invite you to join me on this...
...Harvardfml blog serves a function similar to the desperate and anonymous scribbling found on bathroom walls. It speaks to students’ need to be heard without exposing themselves to the potential embarrassment or shame of doing so publicly; it reflects an undergraduate culture constantly connected to the internet, and at once deeply atomized as a result. The blog serves as an outlet in which students can vent misfortune, hilarity, depression, anger, and intrigue all at once. Often it seems like posts arise from the need to express something desperately, or even just to admit to the world that...
...relevant, and a testament to the community Harvardfml has slowly been shaped by, but the necessity of anonymity characterizes our campus tremendously. This is not to say Harvardfml is a precise methodological tool by which to evaluate campus life, but its explosive popularity cannot be ignored. The blog is confessional. “I only got in because my dad’s a donor. FML.” “I lost my virginity in the Delphic basement. FML.” “The Adderall is not working...