The Cut-and-Paste Personality
The Cut-and-Paste Personality - WSJ.com
Lacking inspiration and a moral compass, some online daters are borrowing other people’s witty Web profiles. - by JENNIFER SARANOW
February 15, 2008These identity thieves don’t want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and your cool taste in music.
Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social-networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems. “Dude u like copied my whole myspace,” posts one aggrieved victim.
…Original souls who discover they have been replicated say it’s unethical and creepy. “I came across a guy who completely STOLE my profile message,” posts one woman in Michigan. “I mean he had to have copied and pasted the whole thing and then just changed gender specific things to fit his own!!”
OK that’s creepy and effed up. Luckily the people I tend to go for have profiles that are too damn weird to possibly apply to more than one person. As is, hopefully, my own.
That made me think what self-descriptor of mine people might be likely to borrow. Searching for my favorite (churlish misanthrope) on Google (I am results # 5,7 and 8 for that phrase, BTW) led me to this lovely quote
“Even the churlish misanthrope, who avoids intercourse with men in general, must have someone whom he can tell how he hates mankind.”
Indeed.
And I won’t even make an “intercourse with men joke” because I am so dignified. *ahem*
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