“What are you doing?” It’s the message that still resides at the top Twitter, even though less and less people actually answer that question. It wasn’t always that way, Twitter did just begin as a way to tell friends what you were doing. Then it got all popular, and everyone ruined it (or made it a hell of a lot better). But what if you do just want a stream of mundane updates? Then MyLifeIsAverage is for you.
The site asks you to “share your everyday mediocrity.” Here are some examples:
- “Today I had meatloaf for dinner. Tomorrow I will have leftover meatloaf for lunch”
- “Today I was talking on a cell phone and my legs got tired, so I sat on the floor.”
- “Today I accidentally dialed my girlfriend’s number when I tried to call my friend. I explained to her what happened and she understood.”
- “Today, when I walked into my math exam, my calculator said it was running out of batteries. I used it for an hour and a half and nothing happened.”
- “Today I hit the snooze button 3 times. I was 5 minutes late to work. No one said anything.”
The best part of the site may be the explanations for features. For example, when you try and submit something without being logged in, you get, “Our mediocre server was being inundated with submissions, so until it recovers, only registered users can submit.” And on the topic of why you should register, the site states: “No one cares. It would let you comment on submissions, but really, does anyone need or want to read your literary flatulence?”
If you do register you can not only submit stories, but vote on existing ones as either “average” or “meh,” and you can comment. As commenter Rajiv notes, this looks to be the sister site to MyLifeIsG, a site full of boasts. Both are along the lines of the popular fmylife, for bitching about life. This is my new favorite site; expect non-stop coverage.
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MG,
Do you guys even check to see if the company has the potential to even handle 100 hits?? (Error 500 to the first 20/30 visitors)
If you did, you would have written about WallPipe ( http://www.wallpipe.com ). Luckily we had over 10,000 hits on the launch and are still up and running.
Sad.
Handling over 50,000 visitors the second day after launch has been been challenging. We’re doing our best.
Thanks for the article MG!
Cheers,
GK
dude … you couldn’t even handle 50,000 visitors? Thats funny. BTW, why does TechCrunch cover a website that has one php page anyways???
Does TC know that it takes an hour to develop such a page???
Good job MG Siegler.
Uhh..Yet another FMylife..Suffixing an MLIA to every post does not make the term a trend, but simply shows that it is only ghost users who have ever cared to post till now..
Since I am very normal and uncool, signing up right away!
I believe this was started as a self parody by the same guy who started http://www.mylifeisg.com/ … which is of course based off of http://www.fmylife.com/
Good call, will update.
While you’re at it you can also list crap sites like http://www.f2bbs.com why dont ya.
What’s up Techcrunch no more twitter butt sucking; with all these negative twitter posts I think it’s clear to say your not on the twitter payroll anymore,
Thank goodness.
Twitter sucks…I agree. Hey, I’m here to make money and I smell blood – so I’m going after it.
I think they are actually doing a bit of a critique on the F*MyLife website more than twitter. See how MLIA follows every update. That’s very similar to the way FML does it.
LOL, if you were to get a sampling of the FML content and append MLIA rather than FML…well I’d just have to agree with most of them!
I’m just a regular everyday normal guy
I joined. See?
http://i41.tiny...com/2rps9qg.png
ha. excellent.
Excellent
Somebody needs to make a ‘my life is exciting’ site…where people only discuss the exciting things that happen in their life.
I’m sure someone will build it by the end of the day using Laconia (or whatever the open source twitter is called)
lol. you’re probably right.
You go out with me, we kiss and end up in vegas.. get married and then life would be exciting.. I am just curious.. if your life was exciting would you have time to tweet about it?
I don’t see why I wouldn’t have time.
What about My Life Is Full Of Exaggerated Sexual Boasts?
Facebook covered that niche already.
This is moderately neato.
So you post a story about some company and every second word is “Twitter”. This is sick.
You will quickly lose readers with such tactics.
Actually, out of 354 words, he used “Twitter” twice. So, in reality, Every 177 words, he says “Twitter. Feel free to check my math.
only a twitter freak would count the words to prove a point
I didn’t count them. My friend JavaScript did.
But feel free to follow me on twitter!
Seriously though.
I just created a pipe to make a TechCrunch RSS feed that removes all of MG Siegler’s posts about twitter:
http://pipes.ya...amp;_render=rss
NICE!!!! i was contemplating taking similar action. thanks
OurServerIsAverage
Today, you got a 500 Error.
Don’t think you are special. Lots of people are seeing this message right now.
Our mediocre servers can’t handle the traffic. We are working hard to get things back to normal. Check back soon.
In the mean time:
My life isn’t interesting enough for MyLifeIsAverage. Think I’ll just stick with twitter.
this is definitely some game changing material that will put twidder to the test.
what they’re battlin’ for….. hell if i know.
LifeLocator.com – tell yourself
you seem to have a really odd propensity for renaming companies to a dumber sounding name – twitter to twidder for example
which is ironic, since no other company comes anywhere near close to the industrial strength dumb displayed by your company
so here’s my name for it – moronlocator.com – find the dumbest guy on the planet
Jack,
You couldn’t be more correct. Not only does he waste TC reader’s time with his inane comments about nothing, he also can’t spell.
I don’t think anyone even knows what his company does. Mostly I think it does nothing.
He just posts his blather so he can end his posts with some self-serving comment like:
loserlocator.com — what I call my mirror when I look in it.
I don’t see the parallel with twitter, except that every story must have the word twitter in it. Somebody actually registered the domain name TwitterCrunch.com genius.
I believe it should read “fewer and fewer” people and not “less and less” people
enough with twitter articles already MG sieglier we get your point you like twitter … no one else cares. Every article you have written or 9 out of 10 are all about twitter get a life MG.
Bitching about things online is the new hanging out at the mall. Sites like this one and http://fmylife.com/ and http://isbroke.com/ are half way between sitting around making fun of other people and whining about how your orange julius is watered down again. AKA more fun than work.
LOL, this site was really worth my precious mouse click.
It’s “fewer and fewer” not “less and less” when you’re referring to people.
You expect a twitter FAN BOY to really know how to write?
This post is average.
I find http://textsfromlastnight.com to be even more amusing than f my life.
MLIA, but that web site is not. It is so broken and underpowered it’s pathetic.
Hahaha! Sooo lovely. (Now I gotta get back to Twittering….and then Twitter about it) =P
I *love* this. Thanks MG. As soon as their server comes back I’m all over this one.
Just get on http://Flokio.com – create your own microblog! :]
Yes MG…I don’t comment on here anymore because my comments get deleted (not sure why compared to the abuse I see sometimes)…
Anyways…just thought I would go against my decision to let you know TC and the constant Twitter thing is taking away from your credibility…
Don’t you people get it? Twitter is the hot story right now. If Barack Obama makes some big announcement tomorrow every news site in the world will be inundated with articles about for days. That is how news works. When people realize Twitter is not as good as they think it is or they die first because they will never be profitable, TC will stop writing about it.
Then they will start writing about the next big startup.
So stop whining and stop reading and commenting on articles you don’t care about.
If I was MG I would post the most ridiculous things about Twitter just to annoy you people. MG, here is the headline of your next post: “Oprah Tweets!” and the content can be just a quote of her last 5 tweets.
how does his penis taste? who cares if twitter is the “hot topic” right now. The reason why any topic is reported on is because people want to read about it. We decide whats the hot topic. Twitter, atleast how MG covers it, is not longer hot.
no longer*
and mind you, i’m an avid twitter user, i love the service and do agree that most people whine too much, but your comment is retarded.
how about MyWifeIsAverage,
people have much issues with their wife than their life
hahahahaha! That is awesome.
Oh come on… that’s a rip off from http://www.fmylife.com/ which is the english version of viedemerde.fr (”shitlife”) which has enjoyed tremendous success in France (check out google trends).
Doesn’t deserve to be on TC front page
Very nice. Their site design is just right too.
ha ha you guys crack me up!
I think facebook has it all covered!
I checked out Guys link http://gvine.co.za decent attempt to do what mylifeisaverage did?!? MAYBE!
I like the idea of this site
Brilliant.
Totally by coincidence a similar service called Prkl ( http://www.prkl.es/ ) was launched at Scred’s Night of Code last night. It’s aimed at Finnish people who are frustrated or want to complain about something. Each message ends in ‘prkl’ which is an abbreviation of the famous Finnish swear word ‘Perkele’.
So there are messages there like “Today I was drinking Coke and it went up my nose which didn’t feel nice prkl”. There are even categories like health, computers, love etc.
No, I’m not involved in building the site, but I love the concept
With voting, these things become like a non-geek bash.org.
Which is pretty cool, actually.
Yet again, another twitter story
can’t find server
How do they make sure people do write about their average life, not anything else?
I think this site is really good… but I find http://www.fwhyme.com to be funnier, and it’s prettier
Two other great sites are http://vexboard.com and http://textsfromlastnight.com
Actually myspace is the master of disaster since it pretty much started this whole damn thing.