Daily Buzz – May 20, 2009
Posted by Generate Studios on May 20th 2009 in Generate Insight Daily Buzz
Topic: Mylifeisaverage.com
With all the self-promotional, social-type sites out there where people can tout how they are changing the world, cooler than cool and heading toward superstardom, comes the antithesis called Mylifeisaverage.com. MyLifeIsAverage is a place to share your everyday mediocrity. It is a place to post the mundane things in your boring, normal life, and read about others. No matter how awesome we think we are and how much we’re trying to make things happen, we’re all pretty ‘average’. This site brings people back to the simple things that our average-selves usually think about. It celebrates normal, mediocre stories that people post about random thoughts and occurrences in their lives. To the user, the site makes you feel like we’re all in this together. One community member said “logging on and reading ‘normal’ posts from my peers makes me feel like I’m not alone in my thoughts and randomness.”
Readers submit and vote on how “average” or “meh” the stories are. Posts range from:
“Today, I wore Axe body spray. I wasn’t tackled by any women.”… to… “Today, my boyfriend was really sick so I decided to surprise him with some homemade soup. When I got to his house, he wasn’t hooking up with my sister. He was really sick.”
Here’s why Mylifeisaverage.com is appealing to Millennials:
- It’s a site that’s real – no fabricated status updates, brag-factor or competition involved
- The site makes the user feel like they can be themselves, without judgment
- The site levels the playing field for users, which breeds camaraderie
- It’s funny to read people’s random thoughts and experiences
- It’s constantly updated with new posts.
Link to the site: http://new.mylifeisaverage.com/
