The Petition to Stop Facebook Cartoon Tagging
I was tagged on Facebook recently. Sweet.
Although instead of a picture of me holding up my 5th grade book-it trophy what I saw was a line up of cracked out eighties cartoon characters with my tag over one entitled “The Slow One.”
Thanks “dear friend” who tagged me. Whoops I just deleted you.
Let us examine the image that has swept the FB super highway:
So many questions come to mind with this photo.
Why does “The Pimp” have a cross around his neck and why is the “Church Girl” wearing a toupee?
Are these rejects from School House Rock?
Why is the “Ladies Man” a purple triangle?
There is a bigger issue here. This might just be me…but why are we bothering our friends with these lame labels?
I mean think about it, how many of your friends actually look like a half melted jelly bean? When we see we’ve been tagged in a photo we get our hopes up to see an image of us with friends enjoying a good time only to be hit with a cartoon card of Dr. Seuss rejects.
This madness must stop. Join our cause. Comment below and show the world you’re not “The Lazy One”
41 Comments
haha i agree … i think i’ve been tagged in those pictures one too many times … when i see a notification i get excited … but then i find out that i’ve been tagged in a lame “who’s who” picture … rawr …
I hate those! Yeah it’s cool to be like, “what do they think of me” but you’re still let down knowing that it wasn’t actually a picture of you…
oh yes. those things are slow if you ask me… what the beans!?!?!?! have you seen the anime ones? those ones are even worse!!!! ahhhhhhh!!!!!! save us all!!!!
They are a parody of the popular UK kids books Mr Men, not Dr Suess rejects. Not all things are American inspired you know….
OMG! I have yet to be tagged in one of those and I pray that I dont! They are the most retarded things people could ever tag you in. I mean seriously who even thought of it??
I endorse this message and will pimp it on my facebook page.
Count me in for the “Labels are Lame” campaign – 9 times out of 10 they’re wrong anyway… and besides, I look nothing like a jelly bean.
–jc
i agree…labels ruin the world..someone once asked me to try an entire day without labelling anyone or anything..try it ..its not as easy as it sounds!
theyre kinky
i agree
Stop the madness.
I agree. I hate being labeled. I have not been tagged in that cartoon picture yet. But I’m sure I will sometime. Every time I log onto Facebook now I see the picture with something that says “(name)” has been tagged in a photo. That photo would be that cartoon picture. I hate it. NEEDS TO STOP!!! Labeling people isn’t cool. And if you do actually think about it, how many people do you know that look like ANY of those pictures?
this is ridiculous. your honestly starting a petition to stop these things? i didnt know anyone really cared that much? anyone who thinks so highly of themselves that they cant be poked fun at just once needs help. anyone who is honestly disgruntled by the cartoon tagging needs to just realize that its just a joke and people are only having fun
and another thing. people take this so literaly, yeah, we know that you dont really look like a jelly bean, or a triangle is it really burning you that.
well its not like your friends are labeling you for reals! its just something that is fun to do with your buddies.
finally! someone gets were im coming from
I think this petition is totally stupid. It gets you absolutly nowhere. But I dont fully disagree. People who are tagging how people are?? You guys are just wasting your time on something that doesnt matter, and dont get all upset if it happens to you. It just proves that the person who did it has nothing better to do with their life than tag other people.
Yeah, they’re little cartoons and they’re just meant to poke fun and mean no harm but remember the saying “Sticks and stones will break your bones but words’ll never hurt me” that could not be further from the truth. Words can be the most potent thing in your arsenal. They can hurt more than any physical injury.
Yes, they are just supposed to be for fun, but what happens when your friend couldn’t possibly be in a crummy situation and they see that and they get ‘the slow one’ or ‘the annoying one’, that wouldn’t make them feel any better.
Sometimes people can takes jokes out of context, whether like that, or they just get plain offended. It’s just best to avoid such situations in the first place.
omg. i hate these things. this one girl tagged me in like 5 DIFFERENT ONES! this one. pokemon. the celebrities. i mean theres more too. its so pathetic.
most annoying thing ever!
Not quite as bad as the ‘25 things’ phase…
Im sure it will pass.. but what’s next? that’s what scares me!
I agree 100%. If I see another one of those I might just delete my entire facebook account completely!
I hate these! Some of them don’t bother me so much, but someone said that I was the arrogant one! That’s funny because my self confidence, well I actually don’t have any.
There are so dumb, and it pisses me off that people comment so much on them. So what they tagged you as something you aren’t? Get over it!
I hvaent been tagged in anything. My high school is obsessed with it. My boyfriend said I wasnt tagged because “nobody likes me.” WHAT A JERK!
I completely agree. We don’t like to be labeled, or put into a box, but we don’t mind doing it to others.
if my previous comment ever pops up, my bad, just ignore one of them. But the other one seems to have disinegrated into the computer world.
I think we’re all taking this a little too seriously. Just like the way those tagging things were meant as a joke (albeit a stupid one) this was meant in good fun. Menat to say: people, those are annoying some of us. So if you’re gonna keep tagging people, fine, whatever, just give it a little thought. Tagging friends something because of an inside joke is one thing, tagging a sort of friend as the slow one is kind of thoughtless.
And for those of you on the other side: yes. labeling people is stupid. Immature. But it’s what we do… it makes us feel comfortable. And it’s gonna keep happening with or without the cartoons. So fight labeling! Go for it! But don’t try to make this petition about fighting against putting people in boxes if that’s not how you live the rest of your life. (That’s not meant to accuse you… but if the shoe fits, wear it.)
So yeah, this petition thing got a little wound up, I think, but it was also a good reminder to me not to be putting people in compartments, so thanks.
P.S. has anybody out there ever read the book Personal Views? it’s related to this.
i agree tagging people like that is a waste of time and could really hurt somebody.
i had that same thing happen to me and not only do i not like being labelled the “friend” that did it to me never sees me and labelled me as something I AM NOT. so my point…if you are going to label a friend first of all expect to not be a friend anymore and second of all label them as something plausible for god sake.
those pictures are stupid its annoying enough trying to find where the hell they tagged you and seriously arent we supposed to be connecting on sites like facebook rather then catigorizing?? grrr im anoyed.
wow its a just a little fun. lets not get to excited over some cartoons.
Josh, I hear ya there. I am getting annoyed by the nonsense that comes from my friends. One day I saw like 16 notifications and it was all connected to that picture, but yet everyone thinks they have to pass the chains along. I didn’t delete the friend that sent it because I was a close friend, but I removed the tag. I started to seriously evaluate my friend list because there are some people’s nonsense that I can’t take anymore.
wow…ironically my friend tagged me in this same thing as “The Lazy One”
lol
I think you guys are getting carried away. Why have a petition over SUCH a little thing? If you don’t like what they tagged you as, just untag yourself! And anyways, what do you expect facebook to do?? How can they filter out all those cartoon pictures? Even if a ton of people agreed with you, there’s no way to stop the tagging. Also, it’s quite fun to see what people tag you as and what they tag others as.
My friend, who is a pastry chef, who doesn’t quite understand the concept of facebook for, like, adults (or wanna-be adults, like myself)…so she puts up one of these with a bunch of South Park-looking characters, and then tags me as “the Pothead” for the whole e-world to see.
I should make one and tag her as “the girl with absolutely no professional tact”.
wow. how could you devote so much time into something so rediculous? a petition? you want to stop the whole world from posting this silly little thing on myspace?
kinda selfish. and you just up and deleted your friend for it? damn.
WHAT? grow a set of balls, you fragile bitches. you cant look at that picture and say “fuck it, it’s a picture”? life must really way heavy on your shoulders.
OK. I’ve been tagged as “the one who likely never leaves home without his/her trusty pet hunting beetle.” Do I need help?
I’m not kidding, see here: http://reface.me/photos/wacko-wednesday-tag-your-victorian-friends-on-facebook/
I think its funny. And if someone put you as the slow one, there is probably a hint of truth to it as you are slow to understand its just an image with words and was made as a joke. They’re friggn cartoons, get real!
Stop being a baby, its just for fun…
its 4 fun get real gosh all yall being a baby
GOD I HATE THESE THINGS! I GET SO FRIKKIN PISSED WHEN I SEE THIS CRAP I DELETE ANY SORRY SOB WHO PUTS ME IN ONE THEN REPORT THE IMAGE! GODDAM PEOPLE ARE FRIKKIN RETARDED
If you are that sensitive maybe you should stay off of facebook. Better yet, maybe you should never leave your house and risk being called a name. The majority of people enjoyed passing that picture around and got a kick out of what their friends thought.
Oh stop the b*tching! It’s all in fun with a hint of reality about how your “friends” really feel about you. I bet you wouldn’t mind if you were “the pretty one.”