Social Media, 18th Century Style

You just KNOW Jane Austen, were she alive today, would be one of those irritating people on Facebook with five hundred friends, all of whom she PMs regularly, curating groups, Superpoking with the best of them, and annoying the HELL out of everyone who knows her.

Behold:

Jane Austen FRIEND ME LET'S BE FRIENDS!

Austenbook

What’s more, it UPDATES, so keep clicking on that News Feed pic!

Stolen from CasaAz

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6 thoughts on “Social Media, 18th Century Style

  1. I heard Thomas Mann’s Facebooking on his trip to Venice. Gloomy bastard.

  2. G Eagle Esq says:

    Buon Giorno, Senor FFE

    Wer ist Thomas Mann ??

    UND

    Warum sollen wir sorgen [vy shld vee Care]

    Es macht man denken, nee
    Das ist es, doch
    [it makes yer fink, dun'it
    This is it, i'nit]

  3. M. Eagle,

    Sorry, but I have to use those college German Short Fiction inside jokes where I can find the chance.

    Is was either that or “Kafka’s Facebook photo looks strangely like a cockroach.” . . .

  4. raincoaster says:

    Well, it does but he gets really sensitive and un-Friends you if you mention it.

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