Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Self-description.

In a world full of social networking, and online dating sites we're encouraged to sum ourselves into a little short paragraph explain what we are and why we are. This is intimidating and of course completely unreflective of exactly who we are; very little people can be summed up in words. Describing yourself can be liberating or incriminating and if done incorrectly can offend and confuse those wanting to know anything about you.

Furthermore I've read personal descriptions of horrible people, making them sound admirable. Therefore we can't really go on anybody elses' view of themselves; because what they've done says more about them than their fabricated self-description. I guess all we can do is give a snipet of facts about ourselves and leave the rest of the description to made up from the viewer. We're different to each person. Funny to some and offensive to others, you cannot please everybody or estimate how people will feel about you.

So I'm Janine, and there's nothing you could know about me because of this sentence.


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