This morning is the first I've heard of this. I've asked someone else, but in case they don't answer, I'm curious about something-- *how* did people get the questions? Were they posted on a blog somewhere, or did you just ask someone who did it to email them to you, or what? Were some people refusing to give them out?
Because it sorta seems to me that if the questions were available to anybody for the asking-- and I mean, SOMEONE got them, so they can't have been THAT secret-- that you can't be called a party pooper or a spoiler or something for posting information that anyone could've gotten for themselves anyway.
Interestingly, those aren't all the same questions I was sent and filled out. I specifically had intended before filling it out that, if any of the things were negative, not to do them.
The differences in my version were:
05. Someone who seems easy to talk to. 21. Someone who you are grateful to. 22. Someone who makes you laugh.
That is interesting. The meme must be mutating through the "telephone game" nature of its spread.
Of course, now I'm even *less* comfortable with it, because it means that people could be saying any number of things about people, and saying one thing to one set of people and another thing to a different set of people and not even know it. What a MESS.
i'm perversely gratified, in an "appreciation of the meme holding its own in the arms race" sort of way. this, mind, despite the fact that i fully agree with you about the discomfort of being blackmailed into paying to find out what people are saying about you behind your back
Or, my theory, someone got a copy of yours and went 'well, what the hell does s-type mean? And chatterbox is not really complimentary' and edited. Who knows.
Spiffy, thanks. I feel much the same about the whole thing as you, and was considering doing the same. And now I don't need to! Ten points for procrastination!
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Because it sorta seems to me that if the questions were available to anybody for the asking-- and I mean, SOMEONE got them, so they can't have been THAT secret-- that you can't be called a party pooper or a spoiler or something for posting information that anyone could've gotten for themselves anyway.
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I suspect that the person who originated it posted the meme like they'd just gotten it and it spread from there.
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The differences in my version were:
05. Someone who seems easy to talk to.
21. Someone who you are grateful to.
22. Someone who makes you laugh.
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Of course, now I'm even *less* comfortable with it, because it means that people could be saying any number of things about people, and saying one thing to one set of people and another thing to a different set of people and not even know it. What a MESS.
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I feel much the same about the whole thing as you, and was considering doing the same. And now I don't need to! Ten points for procrastination!
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