Posts tagged trends!

If Your Mom Isn’t Embarrassing You On Facebook Yet, She Will Be. A new study from the Pew Center (is there anything they DON’T study?) found social network use among baby boomers has increased 60% in the past year alone. I expect a corresponding 60% decrease from people aged 20-35, who will delete their Facebook account the second their mom posts a “we’re concerned about your size because we LOVE you” message on their wall.

-DM

[Nikki Schwab]

Men And Women In New York Have But One Thing In Common. What you see above is a list of the most commonly used words by men and women on the dating site OKCupid. And as you can see, there is only one thing that the two sexes have in common: an unyielding love for Tine Fey and Alec Baldwin trading bon mots. If this really does end up being the last season of “30 Rock,” New Yorkers may never fall in love again.  Also, the men are totally lying about Dylan. They just want you to think they love him. -DM [Jen Doll]

Men And Women In New York Have But One Thing In Common. What you see above is a list of the most commonly used words by men and women on the dating site OKCupid. And as you can see, there is only one thing that the two sexes have in common: an unyielding love for Tine Fey and Alec Baldwin trading bon mots. If this really does end up being the last season of “30 Rock,” New Yorkers may never fall in love again.  Also, the men are totally lying about Dylan. They just want you to think they love him.

-DM

[Jen Doll]

New Annoying Web Meme Claims to Overtake Other Annoying Web Meme. Tired of planking?  Say hello to stocking!  Yes, that’s right.  The folks at Stocking Is The New Planking show photos of people recreating various stock photography poses, and the results show you just how awful, and how unnatural, most stock photographs are.  Has anyone EVER grasped a mug while sleeping?  No, they have not. -DM [Stocking Is The New Planking]

New Annoying Web Meme Claims to Overtake Other Annoying Web Meme. Tired of planking?  Say hello to stocking!  Yes, that’s right.  The folks at Stocking Is The New Planking show photos of people recreating various stock photography poses, and the results show you just how awful, and how unnatural, most stock photographs are.  Has anyone EVER grasped a mug while sleeping?  No, they have not.

-DM

[Stocking Is The New Planking]

“ Lindsay Lohan, Jesse Metcalfe and Steve Carell are reputed fans, as is Katherine Heigl
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That’s from the New York Post’s recent trend-spotting piece about e-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes that deliver nicotine without actual smoke. And what a trend! If such widely admired people as Lindsay Lohan, Katherine Heigl, and the dude from the Tucker Max movie are doing it, why you’d be a fool not to join in! (NOTE: You’d be a fool to join in.  Nicotine itself is still harmful.)

-DM

[Jen Doll]
“Oh, Look! A Status Update From Fido!” Ten percent of pet owners have gone into full-on “my pet is a person” mode and given their pet a social media platform, according to the Telegraph. And if you think it’s just people of ill repute who would do such a thing, well Mrs. Ice T and her dog Spartacus would like to have a tweet with you. -DM [Jen Doll]

“Oh, Look! A Status Update From Fido!” Ten percent of pet owners have gone into full-on “my pet is a person” mode and given their pet a social media platform, according to the Telegraph. And if you think it’s just people of ill repute who would do such a thing, well Mrs. Ice T and her dog Spartacus would like to have a tweet with you.

-DM

[Jen Doll]

“ Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes. Then ask how many of them own cars. If more of them say they own cars, look out the window. You live in Connecticut.
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That’s Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal with a “New Yorkers are cool with cyclists!” pseudo-trend piece that has exactly no polling data about how New Yorkers actually feel about people on bikes.  It’s the kind of fluff piece that my friends tell me is totally becoming all the rage these days.

-DM

[WSJ via felixsalmon, rubenfeld]

(via rubenfeld)

Rollerblades Are BACK! Hey, remember Rollerblades? Remember how we all went whizzing around in them during the 1990’s only to realize they had no viable stopping mechanism and therefore caused us to impale ourselves upon fire hydrants and wrought iron fences? Well, Slate says they’re making a comeback, because I guess a decade is long enough to forget that these things will kill you.

-DM

[Slate]