Talk:FMyLife

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I'm not quite sure where I'm supposed to offer an explanation of why this article matters, but here goes: Fmylife is extremely popular among college-age students (and others, I'm sure) and as I've found, has recently been highly trafficked. I'm fairly certain that a lot of people are probably Googling Fmylife, visiting the site, but wondering how it got started, who made it, etc. I don't personally know that much about its origins, but by making a Wikipedia page, I think that people will contribute and eventually it'll get sorted out. rhs (talk) 09:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I declined the speedy. The LA Times link is more than enough indication for notability. Regards SoWhy 12:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for Creation of Parent Article

While granted, FML has garnered a level of traffic and media attention that has warranted the creation of wikipedia articles for many other websites and internet memes, this site is only the latest in an expanding number of sympathy/empathy-centered web communities (e.g: PostSecret and Group Hug. Would it not be more efficient to merge FML, along with the aforementioned, and any other uniquely-featured websites falling under the umbrella of "pity-centric" into one article concerning this emerging genre of web entertainment? I think the CONCEPT of FML, etc, has substantial notability, whereas the sites themselves are more a 'flash in the pan' sort of thing. Your thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.193.15.53 (talk) 22:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I can definitely see that. This site has only been around for about a year and it really hasn't been all that popular until pretty recently. If this site maintains it's current level of traffic then it definitely warrants its own article, but as it stands right now we don't know that this site is going to remain relevant for very long.--DavidFuzznut (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Similar sites

I was bold, if you want to be a dick and remove it for notability / lists, then please consider that

• Notability for FML is questionable
• There is no better format for my list
• The section can be expanded/article renamed/etc latter

--86.15.153.179 (talk) 00:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

No, notability is not questionable. It more than satisfies WP:WEB. And as for your list, your links are WP:LINKSPAM, and nothing more. Per that link, "Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam." If you want links included to those other sites, they should be their own separate articles, which means you need to verify notability for each. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 00:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Censorship?

Has anyone else noticed that the site's been censored lately? The 'sex' category is now 'intimacy,' and the old slogan, which was something along the lines of "My life sucks but I don't give a f***" is now "Get the guts to spill the beans." Anyone know what this is all about? 98.234.116.17 (talk) 22:31, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed that. The "I agree, your life is f*****" link for each story has been replaced with, "I agree, your life sucks." Some changes like that. Apparently, they have been told to censor some of those things, but I actually don't know much about it, and of course, wonder why. --WKMN? Later [ Let's talk ] 01:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

And now the entire site's a giant advertisement for "The Goods" movie. All that's left to censor now is individual posts, which are currently still allowed to use profane words like 'sex.' Selling out, anyone? PsychoPop (talk) 22:37, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

And what's with this "failing my life" BS? Everyone knows that it used to stand for "f*** my life," and by most people's standards, still does. That should at least be in the article, really. Shivers _talk 17:33, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

No, it doesn't get to go in the article without a proper source. Per WP:V and WP:OR, only stuff that's verifiable by secondary sources can be included in an article. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 17:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

What about old versions of fmylife's site? You know, the ones before it was censored. I think the site itself would be a good enough source... 169.231.38.39 (talk) 09:11, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

The article should reflect the current information. And using two sources like that - especially primary ones - would be a violation of WP:SYN. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 12:58, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

How about rewording it, then? Instead of saying "FMyLife has been censored" to saying "FMyLife has toned down its profanity" or something like that. I can see how saying it's censored would give certain implications and fall under WP:SYN, but saying it was toned down is just, well, the truth. 169.231.38.39 (talk) 08:38, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the above: Whether or not the complaints regarding site censorship are warranted, I wouldn't say a few changes to the wording of certain on-site functions is really notable enough to be mentioned, especially given that half the motivation here seems to be a general sense of annoyance at how the site has supposedly "sold out" (PsychoPop and ShiversTheNinja's comments). A Wikipedia article is not the place to vent frustrations, and technically neither is its talk page. KaySL (talk) 18:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Blog?

Is it really a blog? It actually is user-generated content that has no bloglike content to it, because nobody cares when a story happened, just the fun part of each entry. It's like textsfromlastnight.com or givesmehope.com and there should be a better term describing these user generated miniature story collection sites. --Trickstar (talk) 00:37, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Source

if you want to call it "Fuck my Life," bring a source. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 05:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

here we go > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck%20my%20life%20website

50.9.97.53 (talk) 12:02, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

meaning of FMylife

ok we all know what that means: FUCK MY LIFE. why is this being censored? 50.9.97.53 (talk) 11:56, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

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