I hate April 1st. Now I have to take everything I read or hear with a grain of salt. I’ve come to the ultimate conclusion that Fool’s Day is precisely that: a fool’s day. As if we don’t lie enough the rest of the year. On the internet/blog/forum communities, it goes something like this:
- Smartass webmaster/blogger/poster makes some entry about an event. Sometimes, they even make them sound plausible. For this example, let’s say that Slashdot posts an article about Microsoft charging for security updates to Windows.
- A flood of people too poor to own calendars, digital watches, or software that utilizes the date (!) begin to say “OMG that’s so f’in gay, man! I’m switching to Linux, no more M$,” “Gates has really crossed the line now,” “Now watch their business start to decline!”
- People with common sense start bragging that they have the ability to understand the relationship between the date and overblown news stories, and make posts to the extent of “This is obviously an April Fool’s joke, n00bs.”
- In skepticism mode, real events get mislabeled as jokes.
What a great day.