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What's been bugging me lately, a lot, is this "MySpace" thing. All these people with their little "please define and subcategorise me as a person" profiles with their posey photos and compulsive reviews of themselves. I don't understand why people are so keen to sell themselves on the internet.
I hate being pidgeon-holed as it is. Because my trousers are slightly baggy and perhaps I'm wearing a black t-shirt I am a goth, a mosher, a greb (not quite sure what that is). However it seems that these internet-profile kids are overly keen to be defined down to a tee with their tick-box lifestyle.
The fun thing, I've found, about meeting new people is that you're going to have differences of opinion, and if that person is reasonably-intellegent you can have fun discussion about things. You'll argue about which pub or club to go to, about which film to rent etc, but it's difference and not knowing about a person before you meet them that makes it worthwhile.
I've found that these "profiles" are a lot like product descriptions. They detail, in very broad manufacturers terms, why you should buy (or talk to) them and how awesomelly generic they are. It annoys me to see society sell itself out like this. It's putting relationships hand-in-hand with consumerism. The commies were right, capitalism is evil.
I hate being pidgeon-holed as it is. Because my trousers are slightly baggy and perhaps I'm wearing a black t-shirt I am a goth, a mosher, a greb (not quite sure what that is). However it seems that these internet-profile kids are overly keen to be defined down to a tee with their tick-box lifestyle.
The fun thing, I've found, about meeting new people is that you're going to have differences of opinion, and if that person is reasonably-intellegent you can have fun discussion about things. You'll argue about which pub or club to go to, about which film to rent etc, but it's difference and not knowing about a person before you meet them that makes it worthwhile.
I've found that these "profiles" are a lot like product descriptions. They detail, in very broad manufacturers terms, why you should buy (or talk to) them and how awesomelly generic they are. It annoys me to see society sell itself out like this. It's putting relationships hand-in-hand with consumerism. The commies were right, capitalism is evil.
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My MySpace says
'Isn't s**t funny how people pretend not to care but actually give a s*s**t about what a photo says about them?'
'Isn't s**t funny how people pretend not to care but actually give a s*s**t about what a photo says about them?'
[URL]http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=10721666&Mytoken=20050327121109[/URL] My Myspace > Yours.
My motto is labels are for clothes not people. My actions define who I am not my appearance or the way I talk.
What's been bugging me lately, a lot, is this "MySpace" thing. All these people with their little "please define and subcategorise me as a person" profiles with their posey photos and compulsive reviews of themselves. I don't understand why people are so keen to sell themselves on the internet.
I hate being pidgeon-holed as it is. Because my trousers are slightly baggy and perhaps I'm wearing a black t-shirt I am a goth, a mosher, a greb (not quite sure what that is). However it seems that these internet-profile kids are overly keen to be defined down to a tee with their tick-box lifestyle.
The fun thing, I've found, about meeting new people is that you're going to have differences of opinion, and if that person is reasonably-intellegent you can have fun discussion about things. You'll argue about which pub or club to go to, about which film to rent etc, but it's difference and not knowing about a person before you meet them that makes it worthwhile.
I've found that these "profiles" are a lot like product descriptions. They detail, in very broad manufacturers terms, why you should buy (or talk to) them and how awesomelly generic they are. It annoys me to see society sell itself out like this. It's putting relationships hand-in-hand with consumerism. The commies were right, capitalism is evil.
I hate being pidgeon-holed as it is. Because my trousers are slightly baggy and perhaps I'm wearing a black t-shirt I am a goth, a mosher, a greb (not quite sure what that is). However it seems that these internet-profile kids are overly keen to be defined down to a tee with their tick-box lifestyle.
The fun thing, I've found, about meeting new people is that you're going to have differences of opinion, and if that person is reasonably-intellegent you can have fun discussion about things. You'll argue about which pub or club to go to, about which film to rent etc, but it's difference and not knowing about a person before you meet them that makes it worthwhile.
I've found that these "profiles" are a lot like product descriptions. They detail, in very broad manufacturers terms, why you should buy (or talk to) them and how awesomelly generic they are. It annoys me to see society sell itself out like this. It's putting relationships hand-in-hand with consumerism. The commies were right, capitalism is evil.
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