25 May 06 <i>"It's all been a pack a lies!"</i>

You know if (when) I ever become one of those Greg Crister, Eric Schlosser, or Barbara Ehrenreich style cultural studies journalist I'm going to write a book called U R T0tt@lly H4wt: Everyone Lies on the Internet. I'd find the most fluffed up profiles on the multitude of social networking sites, dating sites, and journaling sites and then try and track down many of these people in real life and show all of you out there that you can't fucking believe all of the bullshit people say about themselves on the Internet! Ok so that probably couldn't fill an entire book, but it could at least be a good backdrop for a good road story.

You know how most people lie in bars? Well, think about how easy it is to do the same thing when they don't have that gamekiller friend standing next to them and infinite reasons to make up bullshit attributes about themselves. I'm not sure why this infuriates me so, but it does. It just pisses me off when I see people get surprised that the person they talked to on the Internet, the one that seemed so smart/hot/fun/sexy/cool, turns out to be a fucking hobbit that's more boring than a game of Skip-Bo with The Golden Girls (minus Estelle Getty of course, she was badass). I think I'm just bitter (not that bitter though, Adam), but I think I've got some wiggle room in my argument.

Meet people in the real world and use the Internet for its intended purposes: bitching about pop culture, swapping illegal music, and pr0n.

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