Sitereading 2.0

You can tell a lot from an internet profile. With a basic understanding of the English language, and as long as you haven't had your head shoved up your ass for the last ten or fifteen years, you can deduce a general personality of the person, their level of education, and if you're willing to use a few generalizations, some of their pop cultural preferences. Here are three of the tip offs:

Color choices: The use of color is something that has been interpreted, translated and flipped around for thousands of years. Adolescent and college girls, homosexual men, or those tied to a culture involving Ecstasy or similar drugs will tend to use bright, often to the point of being neon, "hot" colors, reds, oranges, pinks, neon greens, yellows. Men, mature minded women, hippies, rock bands tend to use the cooler shades of the spectrum. Serious business tends to be monochromatic, while senior citizens are in pastels. Easy peasy, you know the rest.

Word choice: Okay, now this is rather obvious. If you see someone writing like I am, they are obviously educated. Depending on their age, it could be knowledge and wisdom, or the genius of youth. Use of net lingo means they're either older geeks, or the young and savvy, but if the text is nothing but net lingo, then they probably need schooling, Jesus, a life or a combination of the three.

Screen name: One of the most overlooked open secrets on the web is that there's information in your screenname. First and last names, birthdays, astrological signs, favorite bands, all kinds of information can be gleaned. For example, you know someone with screenname flirtybaby6969 is not going to take anything seriously, and generally will have no concept of current events. xxx_RIP_xxx is likely some juvenile emo jackass who doesn't know which end is up.



By the way, who got the pun in the title of the post? For those who didn't I'll give you a hint, it's musical...