Who’s MY Celebrity Look-a-like?!? A Doppelganger Debacle! (Guest Blog by Eric Garcia)
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First we had Ken “Dallas Sexy” Gibson as a guest blogger, then Mia “Skinny Penis” Sabatino, then Courtney “The Real Nene” Favors and now…Eric “I ain’t white, I’m brown!’ Garcia.Check out his guest blog about the Doppelganger Debacle. Come on y’all! You ain’t Denzel and your girl ain’t Halle Berry! But I guess we all can dream. Be easy.
So, over the last week or two, as a professional “in-class-Facebooker,” I have noticed a new trend; Making your profile picture that of a celebrity that you feel you look alike. This is cool and all and I must admit I have often found myself wondering, “Hmm, I wonder who I look the most like?” (However, this is not the point of this guest blog…btw, shout out to Big D Gibson…I got you)
This new fad has been ongoing for roughly two weeks now on the social site, and seems to actually be pretty popular. I’ve even seen whole photo albums FULL of picture of celebrities that one particular person feels they resemble (come on now girl you KNOW you don’t look like Beyonce!) There are also a few groups that have come to be only for the “doppelganger” friendly people AND I’m NOW being told by the Huffington post that “coming hot on the heels of ‘bra color status updates,’ ‘doppelganger on Facebook’ is the social networking site’s latest fad.” (Bra color status??? What the F*@k is THAT about?!) And as of 3 pm on 2/4 it made the top 4 news stories on Yahoo! News!!!! Are you serious!?
Side-note: Have we really become so bored with life that we get off on logging in to Facebook to see what color bra Amy Jo from 1st and Market St. is wearing? Mehh…whose complaining. (I hope it’s pink!)
Anyway, like I said earlier…this trend seems fun. No big deal for my friends to do it if they feel it’s the “cool” thing to do. However, I ran into a debacle due to this trend that has lit a flame under my ass. The other night, I realized I had an assignment due in one of my classes, maybe the one I’m in now? Whatever, anyway… I realized I had no contact information for anyone in my class and had only talked to ONE person the whole time. I got smart, logged on to blackboard, and pulled up my class roster in an attempt to make contact. Taking the class roster, I logged into Facebook, however this time it wasn’t to feed my fish on Fishville. No, I logged on in an attempt to find SOMEONE who was in my class and perhaps get their email or cell number.
At the time this seemed like a genius idea… considering I was using my brain to solve a problem, I felt I was using college experiences wisely. So I type in the first name and I click search and begin my investigation. And who do I see? Is that Ashton Kutcher? Wtf…I didn’t know I was friends with….oh son of a b**ch! Let me recap; I knew no one in this class especially by name. It’s not like I could just say oh yeah I know that Brittany girl. Why can’t I? Because when I type in Brittany so-and-so’s name…all I get is a damn picture of Meghan Fox! And no…she doesn’t look like Meghan Fox (at least I don’t think, I haven’t seen a Meghan Fox worthy girl around here at all let alone in my class, so until that happens I’m unconvinced)
I continued this search and realized that nearly 90% of people in my class had celebrities as their profile picture. This is just ridiculous! (For those of you who care…I DID end up getting the information I needed from Paris Hilton, or at least that’s who she resembled)
Moral to my story? END DOPPELGANGER WEEK…or month…or year, or wtf ever it has become now. Please Facebook I beg of you, let me have my friends back! (Fact: Did you know that Doppelganger is actually illegal according to the Facebook terms of service? Yeah…I did my homework…)
My idea for a new trend? How about “I only have ____ days left of employment before my job goes down the toilet” That seems fitting for today’s lifestyle
I hate to complain (no I don’t) but I think it’s time we focus our energy into something more worthy of getting all worked up about. Forget about what celebrity you look like or what urbandictionary.com says “what your name means (again, if ur wondering, apparently my name means a retarded cat that flys by waving it’s tail in a circular motion… Ok? Can I have that 5 seconds of my life back please?)” Stop looking for something to do so you can fit in to society and just be yourself! Also…you don’t wanna break Facebook’s terms of service do you???
…I didn’t think so
Eric and Macaulay Culkin
2 Responses to “Who’s MY Celebrity Look-a-like?!? A Doppelganger Debacle! (Guest Blog by Eric Garcia)”
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Camille Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 9:43 pmI admit I thought I was Scarlett Johansen for a day:) Now I’m not so sure thanks t Eric lol
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Ruby Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 11:05 pmUggghhh…I HATE these ridiculous facebook trends, especially the latest urbandictionary.com nonsense…fine, look yourself up, but must you look up each of your friends and then post it on THEIR pages too because you just HAVE to assume that they care? (they don’t usually..not even slightly)..
..ok, but I soo did the bra colour trend. But the whole point was for men NOT to know what it was and be confused as hell…which they were, which was hilarious. Once men caught on the game lost its appeal and most women with common sense stopped playing the game…and then there’s the other 75% of women who are on facebook and are trend-whore’s who just HAD to keep on killing the joke, and killing it, and killing it… *sigh*
