Our culture is filled with idioms and clichés that have been around forever. But many of them are losing their significance because our society has changed so much.

It’s time we start updating our clichés for the digital age.

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'Cliche' photo (c) 2010, Tom Newby - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

  • Never send a PC to do a Mac’s job.
  • What doesn’t kill you makes you go viral on YouTube.
  • That’s a hard act to unfollow.
  • If at first you don’t succeed, refresh, refresh again.
  • When God closes a window, He opens a tab.
  • A journey of a thousand websites begins with a single click.
  • He who ROFL’s last, ROFL’s longest.
  • Rickroll me once, shame on you. Rickroll me twice, shame on me!
  • Different keystrokes for different folks.

 

What would you add to the list??

Comments

Alece

31 January, 2012

Ha! This is so great!!! I'm not very creative with stuff like this, but how 'bout... The tweet is mightier than the pen.

Jeff Holton

31 January, 2012

An Apple a day keeps the Geek Squad away. Outside a dog, an eBook is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, there's no place to plug in an eReader. Show me the PayPal confirmation email. A fool and his money are soon owned by Google. The writing is on the blog. I've told you 1024x1024 times...!

    Alece

    31 January, 2012

    "Show me the PayPal confirmation email." - HA! i love that one!

    Jeff Holton

    2 February, 2012

    Thanks. It's from the same scene as "I love people with underexposed userpics!"

Trevor Roberts

1 February, 2012

a 404 error does not become a mistake until you refuse to recode it. ("an error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it") he who clears his history is.... is bound to forget websites (he who does not know history is condemned to repeat it) you can lead a person to twitter, but you can't make him tweet. (lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink)

    Alece

    2 February, 2012

    "you can lead a person to twitter, but you can't make him tweet" -- love that one!!

Jeff Holton

2 February, 2012

Never let your left click know what your right click is doing.

    Alece

    2 February, 2012

    Ha!

Ashley Elizabeth

2 February, 2012

An ounce of spell check is worth a pound of delete.

    Trevor

    2 February, 2012

    Ha! YUP!

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