Comments on: Identity and Image http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/ ...politics, pictures, pugs and all that jazz Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-52238 bbluesman Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:31:31 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-52238 Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai. Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai.

]]> By: Karoli http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-52235 Karoli Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:27:30 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-52235 Thanks, it's Miss Dancer's entry to her school art show last year. :) I think the 25 things meme is okay for people who can actually think of 25 things...that's an awful lot of meaningless trivia to figure out. Thanks, it's Miss Dancer's entry to her school art show last year. :) I think the 25 things meme is okay for people who can actually think of 25 things…that's an awful lot of meaningless trivia to figure out.

]]> By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-52129 bbluesman Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:23:39 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-52129 I've been tagged several times and this meme just struck me as vapid. Anyway some love oranges others apples. Nice mask! I've been tagged several times and this meme just struck me as vapid. Anyway some love oranges others apples. Nice mask!

]]> By: Karoli http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-48755 Karoli Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:42:07 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-48755 Exactly. If I sounded critical of that particular meme, it's because when someone asks me to do something, my first instinct is to do it. But hey, I could lie shamelessly and tell people 25 things that are utter nonsense. Be being me, I'd be more likely to do the opposite and disclose too much. The point is that those memes are an opportunity for some to shape a persona, an image, that's either more or less than who they are. Exactly. If I sounded critical of that particular meme, it's because when someone asks me to do something, my first instinct is to do it. But hey, I could lie shamelessly and tell people 25 things that are utter nonsense. Be being me, I'd be more likely to do the opposite and disclose too much. The point is that those memes are an opportunity for some to shape a persona, an image, that's either more or less than who they are.

]]> By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-48758 bbluesman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:31:31 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-48758 Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai. Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai.

]]> By: Karoli http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-48757 Karoli Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:27:30 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-48757 Thanks, it's Miss Dancer's entry to her school art show last year. :) I think the 25 things meme is okay for people who can actually think of 25 things...that's an awful lot of meaningless trivia to figure out. Thanks, it's Miss Dancer's entry to her school art show last year. :) I think the 25 things meme is okay for people who can actually think of 25 things…that's an awful lot of meaningless trivia to figure out.

]]> By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-48756 bbluesman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:23:39 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-48756 I've been tagged several times and this meme just struck me as vapid. Anyway some love oranges others apples. Nice mask! I've been tagged several times and this meme just struck me as vapid. Anyway some love oranges others apples. Nice mask!

]]> By: Michael_Markman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-48754 Michael_Markman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:32:52 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-48754 I never take memes such as 25 random things to be requests for an essential summary of who you are. it's just another topic to write about. Some people do well with these topics. Most don't.<br><br>I take the memes as opportunities to broaden your online self-portrait with a collection of non-essential details that you might not otherwise have a context to write about. <br><br>I take them as opt-in. Nobody's forcing you. And whether you do or not won't make much difference to anything. I never take memes such as 25 random things to be requests for an essential summary of who you are. it's just another topic to write about. Some people do well with these topics. Most don't.

I take the memes as opportunities to broaden your online self-portrait with a collection of non-essential details that you might not otherwise have a context to write about.

I take them as opt-in. Nobody's forcing you. And whether you do or not won't make much difference to anything.

]]> By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-52131 bbluesman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:31:31 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-52131 Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai. Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai.

]]> By: bbluesman http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/comment-page-1/#comment-52236 bbluesman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:31:31 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2009/02/05/identity-and-image/#comment-52236 Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai. Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai.

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