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- cle2105, on 11/19/2008, -0/+44Yea, it's called deleting ugly pictures of yourself and not posting anything embarrassing
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -3/+44wait, so if my myspace has pics of me being really awesome, I'll become even more awesome by osmosis? FTA: "You can manifest your ideal self. You can manifest who you want to be and then try to grow into that" I'm going to slowly photoshop a picture of me turning into a giant Mecha-Tyranosaurus-Rex over the next month and we'll see how it turns out, wish me luck.
- Search153, on 11/20/2008, -1/+24My mom just got facebook to look into the hype. Needless to say, I denied her friend request.
- kleash, on 11/20/2008, -0/+21Is she hot?
- swass, on 11/20/2008, -1/+21Ladies, please keep taking those photos from unnaturally high angles, and I'll keep appreciating your cleavage.
- Shakermaker, on 11/20/2008, -0/+20Ah, the dreaded "MySpace Angle":
http://celticagent.blogspot.com/2007/10/beware-dre ... - crazyhorse13, on 11/20/2008, -1/+14So you've never joined, but you've seen all their profiles. Interesting.
- Devine122, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10Just use a picture of you with someone who looks worse, or wear sunglasses. Sunglasses make everyone look cool.
- theadvinci, on 11/20/2008, -0/+9Photoshop me beautiful...
- KenSPT, on 11/20/2008, -5/+14Yes, I'm sure all of the College girls on Facebook who currently have pictures of them dressed up as slutty french maids while doing keg stands on Halloween are doing so to "explore their emerging identities".
I think it's moreso because they're whores. - pathouston22, on 11/20/2008, -3/+11With oversized sunglasses to hide how their jock boyfriend punched them in the face.
- FastZ, on 11/20/2008, -0/+8I read the first sentence and read no further. After they stated that "Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites" I figured the rest of this article is just going to restate things we should already know.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+8Good luck!
- amitait, on 11/20/2008, -1/+7that's A LOT of text!
- esc27, on 11/20/2008, -0/+6Facebook: Pick a nice picture with you and a few friends posing together, crop to fit your face.
Myspace: Take a small camera, no more than 3MP, go into a dark room, hold it at an angle away from your face, and take a self portrait. Try to get as much hair in your face as possible. (Alternative: same process, but use a mirror. Make sure the mirror is dirty and there is some glare.) - MeatMountain, on 11/20/2008, -1/+7You'll be old someday.
- AlpineStars777, on 11/20/2008, -1/+6Pimpin' ain't easy.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6wow, go figure...
- AtomicTheory, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4I know, I love Halloween too!
- trogdor282, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/8/8 ...
- crazyhorse13, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4I can't say that french maid dresses are really my style.
- AlexanderCurtis, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be." - C.S. Lewis
- jgzman, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4I should point out that, pejoratives aside, 'whore' can be considered an emerging identity.
- Roshz, on 11/27/2008, -0/+3Read: myspace angles.
- z00k, on 11/20/2008, -4/+7Way too long of an article for something about Facebook/Myspace.
- R1100S, on 11/20/2008, -5/+7I'm 31, and I'm not on Facebook or Myspace.
It's amazing how many of my high-school friends are completely full of ***** in their profiles. They seem to spend more time trying to convince other people that they are someone else, instead of actually DOING SOMETHING about who they really want to be.
1996 was 12 years ago. It's amazing that 30 year olds are still lying about themselves to impress people that really shouldn't matter anymore.
I'm sure most people use it legitimately, but I've seen a lot of old friends that really seem to still have an identity crisis. - Zedian, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2I concur.
- R1100S, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2I've got a friend that tried pretty hard to get me to join. The night of drinking/browsing myspace was hilarious/disturbing.
The profiles of some of the people we used to go to school with would set off anyone's resume B.S. detector. - Zedian, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1And the countless tutorials on how to use the blur technique along with patching tool for endless 'airbrushing' fun.
- olivcarla, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2Wow! I am so glad someone is seriously studying this phenomenon... This is a serious and important phenomenon of this century and I am pretty sure it will have a serious impact on this and the next generations. And nobody is safe. (Not even the 30-years-old and the +40-years-old featured in some of the comments here). People are really living their lives online. That's the new reality and we will have to adapt to that.
Also, about the "crafting your image" part, we've been doing that ever since the beginning of time, just not online and to smaller audience. - wantguru, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1what? not everyone, I tried to myself.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1I can see little kiddies doing this, Id hope adults would use it as a messaging tool alongside a cell phone and normal email as I do
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1what about a Mecha-Tyranosaurus-Rex isn't awesome?
- atma1008, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I swear I'm just as hot as my picture portrays me to be! :P
- whipnet, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1I am 38 and do not have a Facespace or Mybook page.
- LAMinator, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1But first you have to get a picture of yourself being really awesome.
- eklem, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1It'll work. You picture your self as a lunatic, and you'll end up in a staitjacket. It's magic
- ericaj, on 11/21/2008, -0/+0For a second there I thought you meant that you had friends that were still in high school. That was a little disturbing considering you're 31.
- KenSPT, on 11/20/2008, -2/+2Yes, and I won't have a Facebook ...
- dannythepanda, on 11/21/2008, -1/+0No *****, that's how you get pussy.
- d1rkd1ggl3r, on 11/20/2008, -1/+0So losers act cool on the internet, eh? Revolutionary.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -2/+1/b/
- Garofoli, on 11/20/2008, -5/+3... You use Myspace? Eww.
- xceptionaly, on 11/20/2008, -3/+1Isn't Myspace dead yet? Anyway, it seems like this article really downplays that people can differentiate their facebook "friends" from their actual friends, as indicated by all the quoted grumpy old people saying "All their friends are fake they have no meaningful relationships WAAAGGGHH!!" (Yes, I perceive all old people as 40K orks)
- WHOOMP, on 11/21/2008, -3/+1THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE
I HAVE BEEN WARNING PEOPLE ABOUT IT FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS
IT MAY SEEM HARMLESS NOW BUT I PROMISE YOU IN YEARS TO COME WE WILL SEE THE HORRIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES IT WILL HAVE ON MANY OF TODAYS YOUTH
LAUGH AT ME NOW BUT ***** YOU I WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH
PEOPLE ARE GROWING UP LIVING LIES IT IS NOT HARMLESS - Finalreminder, on 11/20/2008, -4/+1People who use Myspace or Facebook are as ghay as Linux loving atheist who play Warcraft on an emulator.
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