Sex sells. Yeah…we all knew that. Do you know what else sells, especially on the Internet? Humor. (Ok, you probably knew that too, whatever.) Sometimes it’s even so funny and popular that it spawns not one but several spin-offs like the site that I’m about to introduce did. Now I sincerely hope that this post is not relevant to you, because that means you discovered and inevitably became a fan of this very popular site (or series of sites actually) long ago. If you haven’t, and this post IS relevant to you, then I apologize, because your life has been seriously lacking up until this point. BUT…that ends now. To the unacquainted few, allow me to introduce, FMyLife.
Users post 2-3 sentence stories about “terrible” (and usually hilarious to all outsiders) things that happened to them that day. Other users can then vote on whether they agree that their life is indeed “F-ed” or that the person actually deserved what happened to them. For example:
“Today, I got a letter from Princeton that said i got accepted. I jumped for joy screaming at the top of my lungs. My little brother walks in laughing with his camcorder on record. He played a joke on me and gave me the real letter. I was denied. FML”
The site was so popular that there now exists (among others) MyLifeIsAverage, MyLifeIsAwesome, and MakeMeThink (the latter didn’t get the memo that these only work when they’re funny…). I remember FML back when they were still looking for people interested in advertising on their site. Suffice it to say, I’d kill to have been one of their early investors…
P.S. – This site is rated P-13. Fair warning.
Enjoy.
