Which Moron R U?

As I sat down with my girlfriend and my textbooks on the soft, brown leather chairs at the local tea café, I had a notion in my head that my productivity would skyrocket into the clouds.  However, the only thing that penetrated my brain that afternoon was a deafening sequence of quips from a gaggle of high school girls discussing something that should be deleted off the face of the Earth.  Or at least, my nearby vicinity.

First of all, let me start with some background information.  Since school is about to start soon, education has been knocking on my mind’s door, so I decided to answer it that day by going to the tea spot to find a place to read quietly.  However, after my girlfriend received her iced tea and I got my black milk tea from the girl working behind the counter, we sat down to be greeted by the seemingly innocent giggling from the table behind me.

“Like, Oh my god!  Have you ever taken that facebook quiz?” squeaked the first girl.

“What quiz?” asked another.

“The one where it’s like… ‘Which evil dictator are you?” she replied.

“OH MY GOD!!” exclaimed the gaggle as they erupted into laughter.

“Yeaahhhhh!  Like, it tells you if you’re Hitler or like, Stalin, or one of those guys!” she added.

The conversation that followed was in the same fashion of shrieking laughter about the same topic:  Facebook quizzes.  Had they switched to a topic more fit for apparent “intelligent” conversation, I wouldn’t have written this article at all.  However, I say thank you to Facebook for giving me the wood to fuel this fire; although, it’s not Facebook that got my panties in a bunch, but rather, the despicable morons behind the creation of such why-the-fuck-can-I-not-forget-about-these numbers as the “Which evil dictator are you?”or “Which Harry Potter character are you?” quizzes, which are only supported by Facebook.

All the while, as I sat at my table in the tea café, the same high-pitched sentence rippled through my brain: “Like, it tells you if you’re Hitler or like, Stalin, or one of those guys!”  Taking in a comment as stupid as this requires almost surgical attention so as it won’t ruin your whole day.  While sitting there, my eyebrow raised in thought and then quickly turned into a facial recoil as the sourness of the girl’s comment registered through my head.  I thought, 1.  Why are these quizzes telling people who they are? Do we, as a society, really need to be told by some arbitrary surveys what the character we possess as a human being is? And 2.  Do people like this girl actually believe that they are who these quizzes say they are?  If that is so, then I’m happy to say that I’m glad there is a population on the other side of people like her, because it’s the one I’m in.

And I know I shouldn’t be making such a big deal about this, but what the fuck?  I wanted to get my study on.  In conclusion, delete Facebook quizzes.

Or your Facebook account.