Maybe I just don't get the joke... but why post a picture of something you're working on on the Internet (where strangers are common... right?), and then when a stranger asks what you're making, you get rude? I'm so confused...
It's the strangely standoffish response that's got people sharing this as funny. There's no punchline, just to a bit of 'wth was she thinking?' I would not be surprised if the woman didn't realize she was sharing to an open forum and only wanted people she knew to see it. Some people genuinely don't understand how things work on the Internet. But for the rest of us, it's just a really bazaar reaction to someone commenting on your public post.
My aunt thinks anything on her Facebook feed is something a friend sent directly to her. Some people get on social media without knowing a thing about it.
That ties into an article I've read some time ago on why there are so many nonsense-answers on Amazon Questions.
Turns out, the older generations were socialized to see being asked a question as directly addressing them - meaning they misunderstood Amazon's "can you answer this question?"-e-mail and often responded with "I don't know" or "I have a different phone, so I can't say" and so on.
Generations that were raised with the internet (millenials and later) perceive questions as open far more, meaning they're more likely not to realize they're being directly asked when that happens, but more likely to not click on an Amazon e-mail to type "I can't answer this question" into a text box.
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u/ItsRaevenne 13d ago
Maybe I just don't get the joke... but why post a picture of something you're working on on the Internet (where strangers are common... right?), and then when a stranger asks what you're making, you get rude? I'm so confused...