[petercooper]

I noticed this phenomenon on Twitter a couple of years ago and last year created a Twitter account solely to share or retweet programming related quotes: https://twitter.com/codewisdom .. Doing almost no promotion, it got up to 15,000 followers very quickly with some quotes getting almost 1000 retweets!

I also run Twitter accounts with things like programming news and programming related links and it's far more common for those to be "favorited" than retweeted. So there's certainly something about quotes that makes people want to share.

[sfard]

Interesting. That doesn't surprise me at all. The most ironic ones I find are the ones about happiness and humility. Something about sharing them on facebook strikes me as so counter to the point.

[pyre]

  | Something about sharing them on facebook strikes
  | me as so counter to the point

The point of the quotes is to be sequestered and/or hoarded?

[Dylan16807]

I can't tell what you mean at all; please elaborate.

Is posting something thought-provoking to your own wall being unhumble? Is facebook somehow incompatible with happiness?