The idiot's guide to the idiot's facebook profile
Erin Lord
Issue date: 4/28/09 Section: Opinion
The emergence of social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace have given our generation a direct way of expressing itself.
We do not have to beat around the bush to say we hate the man by wearing a Bob Dylan shirt or burn patchouli oil in our rooms to passive aggressively rebel against our parents.
We can present our quirks and idiosyncrasies in an effortless, straightforward way-through our Internet profiles.
This has led to a trend explosion in which people attempt to portray themselves in a certain way through subtle stylistics and wording.
These sites have been around long enough now that we are able to easily recognize the different stereotypes. It's like a high school cafeteria, only virtual.
The most obvious and annoying character in our website world is the avant-garde Facebook hipster.
This is the person that has meticulously scrutinized every detail of their "about me" section to make it appear fashionably disheveled, very much in the same manner that emo guys fix their hair.
You will never find capitalization in their sentences, but you will definitely find fragmentation and an overzealous use of punctuation. because their sentences-cannot be pigeonholed. like their minds. too unique, for, proper capitalization. and sentence mechanics.
Their "political views" will proceed to be a ridiculously long and made up category (because they, again, cannot be placed into a generic group such as "republican" or "democrat") like neo-eco-progressive-humanistic-libertarian.
This is only given more depth with their corresponding "religious views," which is most likely going to be a quote from Buddha they got out of their "Eastern Religions for Dummies" book from Barnes and Noble.
Fugazi and Radiohead will most definitely be in their "favorite music" section (even though we all know they sing along to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" in private), and their list of favorite books will read to be impressively long. This is then topped off with their profile picture, which will presumably be an obviously planned but seemingly random picture of them walking with their back to the camera while holding a book of poetry. What a beautifully organic moment caught on film.
We do not have to beat around the bush to say we hate the man by wearing a Bob Dylan shirt or burn patchouli oil in our rooms to passive aggressively rebel against our parents.
We can present our quirks and idiosyncrasies in an effortless, straightforward way-through our Internet profiles.
This has led to a trend explosion in which people attempt to portray themselves in a certain way through subtle stylistics and wording.
These sites have been around long enough now that we are able to easily recognize the different stereotypes. It's like a high school cafeteria, only virtual.
The most obvious and annoying character in our website world is the avant-garde Facebook hipster.
This is the person that has meticulously scrutinized every detail of their "about me" section to make it appear fashionably disheveled, very much in the same manner that emo guys fix their hair.
You will never find capitalization in their sentences, but you will definitely find fragmentation and an overzealous use of punctuation. because their sentences-cannot be pigeonholed. like their minds. too unique, for, proper capitalization. and sentence mechanics.
Their "political views" will proceed to be a ridiculously long and made up category (because they, again, cannot be placed into a generic group such as "republican" or "democrat") like neo-eco-progressive-humanistic-libertarian.
This is only given more depth with their corresponding "religious views," which is most likely going to be a quote from Buddha they got out of their "Eastern Religions for Dummies" book from Barnes and Noble.
Fugazi and Radiohead will most definitely be in their "favorite music" section (even though we all know they sing along to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" in private), and their list of favorite books will read to be impressively long. This is then topped off with their profile picture, which will presumably be an obviously planned but seemingly random picture of them walking with their back to the camera while holding a book of poetry. What a beautifully organic moment caught on film.
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