29.11.07 do you know me?
There’s an addictive little facebook application called “Compare people”, which presents you two of your friends at random, and asks you to… well, compare them on some random dimension. You may end up having to say who, between your lead programmer and your ex-beau, you’d rather be on a desert island with, who’s more likely to win in a fight between your former client and your girlfriend, etc. It can lead to some pretty funny thought experiments.
Of course, it also tells you how you’ve rated when compared to others by your friends, and from what I gather, my friends, at least my facebook friends, don’t know me. Sure, I’m organized and bad to go shopping with, but I seem to rate best on my singing voice (?) and my manners, of all things, winning 100% of the time in those dimensions. Similarly, my friends don’t think I study much (25% win rate) and that I’m a pretty bad public speaker (0%).
Certainly one has to be cautious in drawing conclusions based on this, especially since my facebook friends include people I haven’t seen since elementary school, but it’s a very entertaining way to waste time.
What really matters in the case of Compare People is how you are relative to the other folks in your friends’ networks. For example, if your manners are poor, but your circle of friends consists of those who are even more slovenly, well, you’ll probably win all the time anyway!
Apparently, people would like to marry me (100%) but nobody thinks I’m nice, attractive, or funny! Maybe that says something about people’s standards…
Way out of topic, but I mix the spandex suit. That’s all.
Oups… oublié d’updaté mes infos.
That same application says I should go out with my friend’s fiancée and watch movies with Eric all the time, or was it the opposite ?
Anyhoo, it’s a load of E-bull.
All the more reasons to create a clone called Fesses-Book that would be dedicated to … oh wait, isn’t that what myspace already is ?
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