

It was good at first.
Accurate, funny on occasion; a nice way of telling people to be nice to each other on the internet.
Or to keep things in perspective:
Or to encourage you to not be so annoying on social media:
But now, perspective is something that has been very much lost on the seemingly-unstoppable internet meme of Bill, the sense-speaking stick figure, who is now - ironically - becoming incredibly annoying himself, being used for people to passive-aggressively complain about everyone and everything that people do online. Frankly, he's turning into a sanctimonious, whining idiot and these guys have it about right:
Fortunately, a tool is at hand to enable you to give Bill the final heave-ho - whenever you see one of the offending posts, click on the option arrow in the top right-hand corner of the post and look for the option to 'hide all' from the app creating these annoying posts. Granted, it won't work every time - if it's a self-created image, rather than one made using an app, then you're going to have to silently, seethingly, scroll past it - but it's better than nothing isn't it?
Just leave us alone Bill, and go back to your own smug little life.
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As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.