Of blogger, myspace, and comments

I have a history of commenting on certain mediums through the medium itself. As an example, in my freshmen year in high school, I wrote a poem about how awful it was to come up with materials to write a poem. My teachers were intrigued and I got an A on the assignment. So I guess this will be no different, except I don't really expect a grade on it.

I have noticed that people rarely present their true self on places like blogger and myspace. Even if they are honest about some facts, they may not be telling the whole story. I know as a fact that I will never tell my whole story on here.

There are also a whole lot of misrepresentation here too. We have a tendency to present ourselves as the person we think we are. But of whom among us really know ourselves that well? I will never claim that.

Things like blogger and myspace exists so we can pretend that we are really deep. But let's face it, the only reason why we keep these pages is because we are shallow and vane. We are all shouting for attention, and want people to focus on the things we want them to notice.

With that in mind, so what is the point of people leaving comments on other peoples pages? I myself left about 10 comments on other peoples pages last night and I have a little bit of insight into the matter.

There were a few different kinds of comments I made last night:
1) To reply to the kindly comments my friends have made to show that I'm actually friendly to an extent. That is done to promote an actual real life friendship and coax more comments from them. After all, I always thought that profiles with few comments are kind of sad.
2) There are a few I left that are pure emotional outbursts. I'd like my friends to know that I think they are awesome and I'm thinking about them. *muah!*
3) I like to leave comments that are derogatory on the surface, but they're all in good fun. I mean, I'm not one to kiss peoples asses. If I consider them my real friend, I'd be truthful to them about how I feel. Which brings me to another topic.

Most comments I found are one or more of the following: fake, ass kiss, retarded, stating obvious.

Friend of mine and I were discussing about a picture she found on somebody's profile the other day. Apparently she was bent over in a um.... 'sexy' pose. The comments were something like, "hey you sexy beast", "wow that's hot". I really hope there were hints of sarcasm involved. Because from what I understand, she was presenting an image of, what we people who goes to Ren Faires refer to as, flapjacks. All I have to say is, be careful of what your friends tells you.

I saw a comment the other day which said something like, "you're one of the most intelligent person I've ever talked to". Which to the commenter's... ummm... negative... credit, saids a lot about the people she hangs with. So back from my tangent... What would prompt somebody to make a comment like that? It seems obvious that the commenter does not know the commentee too well. However well intended the commenter was, it seem a bit like ass kissing. Maybe the commenter was trying to gain the commentee's favor for one reason or another. But I don't see a real reason for it, unless the commenter was trying to get into the commentee's pants. Which brings me to another random note. It really doesn't matter how intelligent the commentee is, if he doesn't have good looks, a car, cooks, clean, and be really good in the sack (perhaps all of those at the same time... don't ask me how), he's still not going to be appealing to the commentor. So what is up with the intelligence comment? Does it mean she doesn't care about all those other things I have mentioned? Of course not.... It just means she's the kind of person that has the opportunity to leave similar type of comments on many many other people's page.