Surprise!
There are a lot of inside jokes in this world. But some ways of telling inside jokes are more malicious than others. There is one technique of telling an inside joke privately to friends. And then there is telling an inside joke maliciously at someone else who doesn’t know the joke while in public. Then there is telling an inside joke on the public news feeds on Facebook where tons of people don’t know what the inside joke is. That is kind of like getting some free billboards near the freeway and painting an inside joke that only about 12 people understand the punchline to. So before you tell an inside joke as an status update, think of the hundreds of people who you will be hurting…because they want to know.
A possible solution to this problem could go like this. Let’s say, Lacy has an inside joke that she tells on her facebook news feed status update. It is something like: “Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream…2012 ain’t got nothing on me.”
Now some of her friends are a little confused by this update. Is she talking about eating Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream while watching the 2012 action film that was made by the same dudes who did The Day After Tomorrow? Or other friends may be wondering if by eating ice cream, Lacy is protecting herself from the 2012 Armageddon pseudo-science prophesy.
But what only a small group of friends, (5 to be exact) is that her ex boyfriend Cedric is allergic to mint flavour. And whenever he inhales mint, Cedric starts to swear. So to get revenge on Cedric when he took her out on an “Apology get-back together date” she purchased a small container of mint chocolate chip ice cream and opened the lid and put it in the back seat. And so Cedric kept swearing, and cussing the whole night uncontrollably after they saw their play on the downfall of Rome. And it just all happens, that “2012LUV” is Cedric’s license plate.
So by saying, “Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream…2012 ain’t got nothing on me,” her five friends got some good laughs but everyone else who commented looked dumb.
Well, we’ve been working on a solution. The trick is, whenever you tell an inside joke on facebook public news feed area…include a link in the comments section that will direct people who don’t get the joke to a color Power Point presentation that explains IN-DETAIL the funniness of the inside joke.
-Tyler