Sunday, September 12, 2010

3:55 PM

A show.

"You can tell yourself that you dress the way you do because it makes you happy, but the real reason of managing your appearance is to influence how others view you."
"Humans actively sell themselves every minute they are interacting with someone else."

-Scott Adams


This tallies (tally with an s) with my opinion long ago (still holding now) about how cheap facebook is, because people are selling themselves on it. I've mentioned, by putting profile pictures and having people click on your face. It's like selecting maid in maid agencies, you look at the photos and select the most harmless looking one.

That is also why it is very interesting to look at profile pictures that people pick for themselves, because when I look at profile pictures, I am not judging how good the picture is, but judging the person for what he/she wants to portray of himself/herself.
Even more fun if I know the person personally, then I could compare what he wants to portray of himself with his real self, sometimes i marvel at how large the difference is. haha.

But I guess the benefits of social networking are far more obvious than the harm that it could bring, that is why we are all trapped in it. No one our generation looks at things in the long term anyway.

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