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So maybe I'm feeling a wee bit cynical (spending the weekend alone with a parade of movies can do that), but my MSN list begs the question: "Do people with no personality ever wish that they had one?"

Rows upon rows of names giggling about inside jokes, cell phone numbers, inane pop-music references ("Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?") and OmG lAsT nIgHt wUz iNsAne!!! (JAMIE MESSAGE ME AS SOON AS YOU LOG ON!!!). Names packed with icons and ROFL acronyms and fodder of the lowest degree. I mean, it's fine and all, we don't all have to be On all the time - lord knows I'm not - but can we please mix it up occasionally?

I'm definitely pretentious to the highest degree when I start demanding some degree of introspection from people's MSN handles, but it suddenly struck me that maybe they don't know that they look stupid and boring. Poetics and subtlety are a rare find on my list: I admire tactile innovation, something ANYTHING original. Talk about your life, by all means, but do it in a way that's unique to your personality (please God don't let this be your personality already). Find yourself a voice. English is a fucking immense&diverse language, and there's really no reason why everyone has to ply it with alternating capital letters and the same TV references and nerdy-turned-trendy web slang. Show us something new! Something you. I know you can do better than this.

And if something you is indeed this mishmash of embarassing pseudo-language and recycled extroversion, then I need to know: do you ever wish that you had a personality of your very own? Do you lie awake at night hoping beyond all hope that You will shine through the shopping-mall masses of Everybody? Do you even care?

Because you should.

Posted by Chris at 02:24 PM >> Commentations (3)