That feeling when

[james_davis_nicoll]

You realize the most downloaded image related to you on FB is the one that credits your quotation to the late Terry Pratchett.

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[jiawen]

The problem with quotations on the internet is that the internet is about as clearly sourced as a very unclearly sourced thing indeed. It doesn't just assign quotes incorrectly; on occasion, the internet has pursued witticisms down alleyways to beat them unconscious and randomly assign them to other people.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Good one!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You forgot to credit that. It's by Ambrose Bierce.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Of Bridge over Troubled Waters fame. Or was that Hootie and the Codpiece?

[(Anonymous)]

The Twitter manifestation of the phenomenon's even got its own name - Attribution Decay, coined by William Gibson (presumably as he's credited with an awful lot of internet aphorisms due to it).