Mean People

Bored one night, I was browsing the profiles of people on Friendster. For those of you living under a rock, Friendster is this website where you can create a profile for yourself where you can meet people thru friends and friends of friends and friends of friends of friends and so on. Of course it has evolved since then to include resumes, classified ads, etc. It's also got a whole slew of competitors who have jumped in on the bandwagon to prove the "small world" phenomenon is true.

Being the self-confessed freak that I am with nothing to do, I made a search for people who had interests in sex. Needless to say, there were a lot. So I narrowed it down to women in the Philippines. There were more than a thousand entries so I filtered it some more to include those with pictures. I managed to narrow it down to 24 pages with about 10 entries per page. So that gives us 240 people.

But you know what's disturbing? It's not the fact there are women here outright advertising for sex. It's the fact about 80% of this is slander. As I read thru the profiles, I realized that the people featured there aren't the ones who set it up. They're inconsistent and they don't match the profile. At some point, they would refer to themselves in the 3rd person. That may just be a grammar problem but it makes one wonder.

I mean, wouldn't you be discreet about it? Or at the very least, tasteful about what you put in there. For example, I've never seen the lesbian and bi women there refer to themselves as sluts or nymphos. It's obvious that people who would refer to themselves as one or the other are disturbed or painfully honest.

That I do think is that these people are the victims of other people who have it in for them. A jealous lover or broken-hearted ex or sociopathic rival. To go this far to work out your frustrations is really disturbing. Is it too much to ask that they work it out more positively? I guess so, considering the number there.