The other night, I sat on the couch and cried.  Cried… because I was laughing so hard!  I was reading F*** My Life, a new start-up where users have three or so lines to write why their lives are, well, effed.  The site was launched by the French twentysomething Maxime Valette, and I think FMyLife is the best web-site since Post Secret to give internet users a window into one another’s lives.

Here are some of my personal favorites from FMyLife.com:

“Today, my 5 year old nephew showed me green martians he’d made with his new Play Doh set. I smiled and said, “Wow! Now, how about some blue martians!” He looked at me and replied, “How about some blue shut the f*ck up!” FML”

“Today, my boyfriend of four months broke up with me via text message. He spelled my name wrong. FML”

“Today, I got my license renewed and the woman behind the desk looked at me and said “guess we need to update the weight, huh?”. FML”

“Today, on campus, these really overly-happy people walking around with big signs saying “free hugs”. When I walked towards them, their smiles faded, and they put their signs down. FML”

What I love about fmylife.com is that it’s a very simple concept that gives users a lot of freedom to vent about what happened during their day and see that everyone has a bad day every now and then.  What I also like about FMyLife.com is that the responses are frequently really creative and hysterical, and that there are very few misogynistic, offensive posts (or at least, not offensive to the reader, but possibly to the person posting the story!)–which can be a problem on user-generated web-sites.

Anyway, I predict that fmylife.com will be my newest online addiction, and it’s wonderful because the content is rolling and constantly updated.  It’s nice to have a little burst of levity here and then during the day!