The year is 2009. I remember 13 years ago when cyber cafes would charge 13 bucks for an hour's usage. These days nobody would pay 3 bucks for a cafe without 22" LCDs, super comfy seats, awesome Altec woofed-up sounds and Black Adder guns and swords. Heck, they won't even pay 3 bucks it it'd come with those!
Anyway, back to the point of this post. Every other year some awesome mind blowing community site will reveal itself, driving the world foaming to be the first to enlist. You're not one of them? Impossible. You got a Friendster account? Facebook? Twitter? MySpace? No?
We've all got at least 2 of the abovementioned accounts, I guarantee that. Remember creating an account and filling those endless forms? Remember having to crack your head trying to figure out what to write in the 'Favourite Whatever' section? Okay, this post does not apply to people who can't be bothered to fill in those sections. Frankly, it takes a lot of self discovery for a person to be able to fill them in. And I can safely say I don't have much of it. Read my profile and you'll know.
Anyway my point is, try to dig up old accounts from which ever sites you've lost interest in (still possible, 'cos they don't usually delete them even if you haven't logged in for 100 years) and start reading your profiles. I'll assume that we've been actively searching for trendy community sites to be a part of since before we left school and started working, because that's me.
Firstly, you'd realize that your favorite movies are no longer our favorites, most probably because you've destroyed countless pirated DVDs watching them again and again. Then you'd find your favorite songs are now old and disgusting. Feeling embarrassed, you'd delete them even though you know nobody's gonna see them. Then comes the column where you're supposed to tell the world what your favorite books are. You prolly filled one or more of the following: How to Kill a Mocking Bird, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Da Vinci Code, Twilight, and Angels and Demons. The first mostly because you know many people have 'read' them, and the latter ones because you've watched the movies and they're trendy reads, so you'd look trendy having read them and you'd know the story because you watched the movie. Lets face it. We are Malaysians. Our reading stops after we leave school. No, it stops even before we leave school!The only thing we'd read are newspapers, and even so, only those with tacky headlines like PAS This, or BN That, or 100 Dead, Bus In Flames.
"Let's not stray from the topic," the writer reminds himself aloud.
Then we come to the Favourite Hobby/Pastimes column. You will find a certain pattern to what you filled there, based on when you did it. Your first may have countless hobbies, like Rock Climbing, Surfing, Skiing, Shopping, Clubbing.... and so on. You'll fill in whatever you did in your entire miserable lives, even if it was only once, and you were too petrified to try again. Notice that as you got older, the number of hobbies you have get shorter? I take it your latest account is Facebook (disregard Twitter). Open your profile up and read it. It may now only contain a few of the following: Yum Char/Tani (Non-alcoholic please)/Lim Teh, badminton, futsal, football, cyber cafe. Most of the above you only do once a week, forgoing other hobbies for it. Please don't put in hobbies you do once a year, because the lack of frequency makes it less of a hobby. For those still young at heart, well this don't actually apply to you.
People, pleeaasseee... Don't lie to yourself when you're filling in forms for that account. Imagine if someone read it, and asked you, and you said "Huh?" Plus, it does make you all fluffy inside when you're honest to yourself. Try it..
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