This seems like it would be an all too entirely unpleasant experience. :( The thing is, the way I see it, for me, the friends whose opinions I really trust and value are the same friends who are going to straight-up tell me to my face if I have some flaw that needs addressing, whether I want to hear it or not, because they have my best interests at heart. As for everyone else's opinions, or the nit-picky little things that we all tend to overlook in each other, anyway, then I just don't see those as needing to be brought to the surface, because it serves no good.
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#12What's stopping a person from creating a profile for someone (maybe someone who's "unpopular")??
Seems like it could devolve into juicycampus.com for... everyone.
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#13This reminds me of the old Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin is selling "a swift kick in the butt" for $1.00. Business is slow and Calvin says, "I don't understand it, everybody I know needs what I'm selling!"
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#14This reminds me of the old Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin is selling "a swift kick in the butt" for $1.00. Business is slow and Calvin says, "I don't understand it, everybody I know needs what I'm selling!"
Good call - http://bit.ly/9BYtb9
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#15love to try this. codes?
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#16Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them. This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this. But why not give it a miss, and focus on what you're doing in your life instead of on what other people think of you. Especially when they don't even have the courage to say it to your face.
Well, sometimes there is something that only other people can see. I think there are some opinions about my traits that I happily ignore, I know what's best for me, but certain things about me bother me , not just others. Particularly, being somewhat anxiety prone, things like, "am I worrying about this too much or not enough?". I'm actually quite glad this is up, I'd considered that something like it would be useful…
There is a saying that every man is a coin viewed from a fixed position. The face of himself that he sees no one else can see, likewise, he sees the face of everyone else that they cannot see. And thus, no man knows another as that other believes himself to be.
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#17Great idea. I think I'm still too self-absorbed to actively ask for critiques on my personal character though. Maybe I'll be mature (brave) enough to do this in a couple more years.
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#18Post up your worst enemies.
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#19Great idea. I think I'm still too self-absorbed to actively ask for critiques on my personal character though. Maybe I'll be mature (brave) enough to do this in a couple more years.
But this is perfect for the self-absorbed! It gets everyone thinking and talking about you and your imperfections.
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#20In the old days of LiveJournal (decade ago) there was some brutal honesty meme which was supposed to be 100% anonymous. I made like 50 (exaggeration) different surveys and then made 50 different "private" posts of the link to each individual friend. Of course to everyone it looked just like a friends-only link and they assumed everybody was going to the same anonymous /aggregated survey.
I told them all pretty quickly afterwards about my silliness and put only mildly incriminating questions in the survey, just enough to make them worry about the other memes they'd been filling out.
Of course I also confirmed that one friend was head over heels in love with me. I so happen to be married to that darling girl nowadays.
Moral: If you're filling these out, don't assume it's 100% anonymous to the person you're writing about. They could be sneaky.