A Book With A Face
Note: if anyone reading this is personally acquainted with Ex-President Bush - and no, I don't necessarily mean you Ms Rice - would you kindly pass along the message? Thank you.
Apart from asking friends to join causes (some of them hilarious - Think: Save The World From Stupid People, anyone?) another craze on Facebook seems to be taking all these quizzes devised by other users, some of them whom I suspect may have too much free time on their hands. Name The Footballer and What Is Your Personality Type? are some examples of the more intelligent quizzes while What Date Will Your Wedding Day Be On? and What Type Of Shoe Are You? are rather the exact opposites. Yes, there is a quiz which will tell you what type of shoe you are if you are willing to waste ten minutes of your life answering some questions which have absolutely nothing to do with shoes.
(On that thought, how does one become a pair of shoes? Do you have to have a last name like Choo? Or die first to be later reincarnated as a pair of Manolo Blahnik boots lovingly handmade using the finest alligator leather? No, wait. Do not answer. My mind cannot take this anymore.)
To me, the purpose of a quiz is to dig out some useful information about the person taking it, not such flim flam and flummery made up in the same amount of time it takes me to take a swig out of a milk carton while scratching my belly. In fact, if I wasn't too much of a lazy bum, I would have devised a quiz of my own which would probably ask questions like 'What aspect of Jamil do you find most attractive?' or 'If you ever had Jamil as a friend, will you treat him to some ice cream?' or perhaps even 'Jamil demands some attention. What do you do now?'
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I don't think it'd be a rather popular quiz, would it?
postscript: I just became a fan of 'DAMN YOU FACEBOOK, I AM TRYING TO DO HOMEWORK'. And damn you indeed.
10 comments:
wow, ur knowledge on shoes alone is sure extensive =P. it's either u did take the test (which i haven't, not my thing really), or u did some goggling before writing this entry. either way, Kudos for you (well, i heard people calling u Jamillicious eh now?)
Budak cerebral palsy akan hentak kepala dan gigit bibir untuk teroka rasa yang baru. Biarpun ia sakit.
Sama seperti orang yang habiskan masa depan Facebook - mencari satu escapism supaya dapat berkomunikasi. Biarlah ia maya, sekurang-kurang interaksi berlaku.
Dan hentikan bullshit itu yang kata dunia maya tidak benar dan dunia nyata harus diterima biar perit. Salah kamu yang buat dunia nyata jadi perit dan mereka terpaksa cari satu jalan keluar.
Salah kamu.
*cough*
and now, i need codeine too!
Wonder why it's called facebook..
I agree with maskedfacies, you do know your shoes, or ladies shoes rather. Expensive ones too. You've taking those quizzes or you have been watching far too many Sex and the City series.
As for facebook, I find it a useful tool for stalking. Even my DG has one and we made him confess in a meeting about it too (but he doesn't play with it because, I quote "I don't people to know whom my contacts are"...wise man).
mimi - I'll own up quickly and admit that I googled my way through a whole virtual warehouse of expensive shoes till I came across the dearest of them all. Jamillicious sounds like an ice-cream flavour that will find scant favour with ice cream lovers.
awe - Alamak, betulkah saya bersalah meminggirkan sesiapa sehingga terpaksa bergantung pada Facebook untuk berinteraksi dengan orang lain? Atau itu hanya satu ayat umum?
mimi - codeine stat!
dith - probably because people who utilise it are far from getting their faces buried in academic books.
23 - The truth is I am spending too much time at the mamak, ordering only a glass of iced tea just to use the free internet.
By the way, I'm still waiting till I meet one of my specialists on Facebook. They sure are an elusive lot...
umum
ahaha. i'm one of the fans too. good group, eyh?
it's a wonder how people can connect the stories of shoes with facebook.....
they're both...uhhhH...good, u know.
Haha..my sentiments exactly.
I usually ignore the invites coz it's tooo much and most of the time there'll be like 10 invites for me to do the same quiz.
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