Thanks to a pretty stupid unfortunate viral SOMETHING flying around the Facebook cyberwaves, every time I open up my homepage, I find my newsfeed SPAMMED by people (a lot of them that I don't really talk to and haven't had a chance to "hide" from my newsfeed) who have decided to take a quiz and post the results for all and sundry to see.
Apart from getting me very pissed off and clicking hide, hide, hide AND THEN BLOCK FOREVER for repeat offenders, it makes me think why on earth people take quizzes like "Which one of your Chakras is most open?" "Which Friends character are you?" "Which Mystical Creature are you?" "What is your greatest weakness?" "What is your nickname?" "What love story are you?" "When will you get married?" "WHICH DAY-OF-THE-WEEK DISNEY CHARACTER FLAVOURED ICE CREAM ARE YOU?!"
Don't get me started on Chinese quizzes. I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THEM!! I can only guess at what banality they contain- judging by the sappy overly photoshopped pictures of girls in snow, rainbows and hearts. I see 'em, I control my contempt and I hide them.
Don't get me started on Chinese quizzes. I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THEM!! I can only guess at what banality they contain- judging by the sappy overly photoshopped pictures of girls in snow, rainbows and hearts. I see 'em, I control my contempt and I hide them.
My only conclusion as to why people take these quizzes (apart from wasting time and everybody else's) is that they're searching for something. Whether they're searching for an identity, an anchoring, some sort of comfort that they are what they think they are or some misguided attempt at trying to convince people that they are something else, it still points to an emptiness in their lives that gives a restlessness that whilst being temporarily sated by doing man-made quizzes, fails to satisfy to any level.
Are people so desperate to label their lives like this? Seeking for that elusive something to make it all worthwhile?
Guess what?
I'm loved by someone bigger than the lovechild of the Hulk and Wolverine ("Which Marvel character are you?"). I'm saved from a pointless life ("What kind of housewife will you be?") of mundane circumstance. I have no need to believe in stuff like chakras and auras because something fills me so deeply that there's no room. I don't need to know what Middle-Earth character I am because my identity is Forgiven.
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Interesant blog.
Brilliing blog.
there's a hide button?
*checks fb*
heh-heyyyyy... thanks for the tip sodabug! time to get rid of the crap-pile in my news feed.
hiding FB quizzes is one of the most therapeutic things i've done for quite a while.
careful, it's rather addictive.
haha! i see the LIGHT! the hide function is great! never realized its there, thanks Jess!
And this post, absolutely hilarious. You just said what everyone else - who's not doing those quizzes - was thinking, just stop doing those damn quizzes already! I liken them to those in your teen magazines like "how do you know if he really likes you?" or "Are you destined to be together forever (and never to part...)?" Or (put on commercial voice) text your name and his name to 1800-DUH to see if he's your perfect match! Hurry dial 1800-DUH to find out now!!!
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