if you’re connected online then you definitely know what facebook is. and if by chance you don’t, then chances are you’re not reading this either…anyhow, if you visit facebook once in a blue moon then it’s safe to assume you’ve seen the following ‘test’: ‘how well do you know ‘x”, ‘where should you live’, ‘what color are you’, and so on. why would i say this? well, as you log on the first things that pop up are…so and so took the following test/quiz…and their result is… (of course you can probably disable this newsfeed, but then again…what’s the ‘fun’ in that?)
while i agree that a social online network page must continue to add rather small yet addictive pieces to keep the interest of its users up (given that the lack of this sort of activity is what started the downfall of the other older social networks once facebook sort of came onto the scene – and yes i’m talking about myspace, hi5, etc.) however, this latest trend tends to not only shock me but kind of surprise me. the surprise part is more on the lines of who take these tests…i would never have expected some of the people to complete some of these tests…i did think they had something better to do with their time (and yes…i am imagining that some of you might want to say a few ‘kind’ words to me now as you’re probably realizing this is about you).
let’s look at a few of these ‘test’. first off one of my favorites is how well do you know person ‘x’. well…i’m assuming that answering 10 questions about this person won’t make you an expert of the person…nor will it tell you if you’re great friends. but then again, while at work….might as well. another one, well ‘what kind of color’ are you? seriously…i highly doubt i need to spent time on this. how will this tell your personality based on some random questions that will pop out with some shade of some color. quite pointless…but then again…
next on the list…is, what does your name say about you? first off, for most of us we had no choice in our name (excluding those who changed their name)…so, there goes that test. your family name…well, just your luck you were born to that set of parents…and your first name…no comment. but then again, there’s the test of ‘what does your name mean’
the ‘where should you live’ combined with ‘which state should you live in’ and any other test that has any implication of a location to live in…why even bother taking this test? you know it won’t be the place you live in now. and it’s not like you’ll move the next day once the results pops up. furthermore…if it’s not the place you live in now…what does that really say about you? you didn’t quite make a good decision of where you live? and no, the argument i don’t have a choice…doesn’t quite work (well that’s if you’re not a minor).
another one of my favorites is ‘which greek god are you’ (or anything else that is related to some sort of mythology god…may it be roman, or anything else)…first off…they’re not real…made up mythological beings…regardless of the results…what does it really say about you?
another one…is which character of some lame tv series show are you? seriously?…c’mon, based on some questions…you’re like some tv character that is made up to be some generalization of a group of people…not to mention the character itself…has probably characteristics of different types of people just so that he/she can be related to by the viewers. this is quite similar to the horoscope…and you guessed it…there’s quite a few tests that will tell you what you’re horoscope sign means and what it tells you about you…again…same argument…generalization with far to many vague characteristis to be true.
the last two i’ll mention…well one is ‘how good is your ‘x’ language’…and the test is written in english…do i even have to say it? it’s definitely not good if you take the test to see how good you are at language ‘x’ and you take it in english…c’mon? how lame must you be to be proud of scoring 100% on language ‘x’…when the 10 questions (or so) are in english…
the best for last usually…and this is one of my favorites…’how well do you know females (or males – depending on your preference’…definitely not good enough if you must take a test to figure that out…either you don’t have any sort of confidence in yourself (for which this booster won’t help) or you simply haven’t learned yet…you can’t learn how to behave with your partner our of a book (yes…the reference are there)…
overall…i’m just very happy facebook took the ‘requirement’ of send this application to your friends once you complete this test (which they had for their previous ones).
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