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Since the proliferation of online profiles, be it from social networking sites or blogs or whatnot, people have a tendency to put up their 'interests'.  Now usually I don't have a problem with it, but oftentimes, behind their safe monitors, they pass off their interests as something they're really into when in fact, they might have tried once or have a cursory fascination with certain activities.  I would even surmise that most of the items on these interest lists are there because they are interesting to note rather than interests that arise from any special passions.

I mean, I'm looking at some of these profiles and thinking, "How would a girl like you who spends 80% of your time scheming ways to get the next boring 'black dress' from Club Monaco or fcuk or a green leather bag like every other single girl be interested in 'biographies of tortured people" and "abstract photography" and "existential philosophy"?  Maybe you read an article once and thought "Well, I don't really have any strong feelings on anything of importance, so I guess I belong to the postmodern school of thought more akin to Gould rather than Sartre." Or "Yah, I like pictures of myself, especially when it's saturated so to hide my blemish that I suppose it's abstract photography."

I love self inflation on the web.

Some more of actual "interests" that people have: experimental cooking, modern design, minimalism, Victorian decor (wtf?), world travel.

Example of an online profile:

Now I put in world travel in there because everyone is interested in traveling.  Yeah, so you like traveling.  No shit.  Where have you gone? Oh, uh.. Jersey. Well, one time with my parents to Vegas. But ahem, urm, too expensive, no time, career threatening, too hard to plan always gets in the way of world traveling.  Why the hell would you put in an interest that when it comes down to it, other interests takes precedence?  Instead of traveling, people should really put "climbing the corporate ladder", "making money", "spending money", "talking on the phone", "getting wasted so I can potentially hook up with the fat chick in the corner", "buying clothes", "eating fast food and then purging myself", or some other interest that would be more honest. Or put it "traveling" as "traveling when its safe and convenient and doesn't interfere with my other interests, mainly following what everyone else is doing".

Or maybe they can just put "pretending to be someone I'm too scared of to try to be in real life" as an interest.  That would be much more interesting.