This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Monday, March 16, 2009 |
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Have you ever wanted to know which keyboard brand you are? Never managed to figure it out for yourself, but think a lifeless computer algorithm could do better than you? Well then, click >>here<< to take the FREE quiz! Oh, and tag 25 people while you're at it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Did you actually have the urge to click that "link"? Did you? DIDCHA? =P It seems the amount of quizzes done on Facebook (and on blogs etc) is directly related to the amount of boredom people are experiencing. Considering it's the March holidays, that would explain the sudden surge in quiz-spamming, and why every time I refresh Facebook I see yet another note entitled, "MY TRUE AGE IS 63 YEARS OLD", "I AM 46% GAY", or "I AM 'Sexy Back' by Timberlake!!" Please don't scare the hell out of your friends with such shocking revelations. I'd rather not know that you've kissed friend #2 before, thanks. I know such quizzes have never claimed to give accurate results (seriously, who would've thought knowing how to spell "expreince" would increase your marriage age by a year?), but hasn't it ever struck you that most of the quizzes out there either 1. Compile your responses and throw it back at you in a different format; or 2. Give some canned response no matter what your answers are Here's an example of the first type. How many close friends do you have? If you chose (a), your result would very likely go along these lines: "You are an introvert who likes to keep to yourself most of the time. You are not very comfortable around people and would prefer to limit your social circle to a few friends you can trust deeply in." And if you chose anything else, it would be the very opposite: "You are a very sociable person who gets along well with people. You enjoy being surrounded by friends who can laugh along with you." Such is the art of expanding an obvious fact into a nice-sounding paragraph to make you feel good about yourself. The second type is even easier to tackle. Do you believe I have psychic powers that can travel through internet connections and can tell what your personality is simply by you visiting this page? Nope? Click here to activate my PSYCHIC POWAHZ! To sum it all up, if you haven't realised already, quizzes are utterly useless and serve no purpose other than to suck your life away little by little. In fact, I swear they are a conspiracy by Facebook to waste all your spare time away, now that their Mousehunt application has failed on them - it seems people have finally realised its futility and disabled it in disgust. If you're bored with REALLY nothing better to do, then well go ahead and try some quizzes so you can laugh at the results, but PLEASE don't tag others and make them waste their time on it as well. D: Spread the word. HALT THE CONSPIRACY. And copy this into a new note and tag 21 friends in it. |
'Twas teh winnar at 3:18 pm.
