Myspace Fun

I really should be sleeping considering that in the morning, my sister will be dragging my lazy butt to the gym. Then again, I never really liked doing things I "have" to do. I'll go to the gym - only because I have an inkling of desire to go.

Anyway, the real reason why I decided to post an entry at 2 AM is to rant and let my opinion be known. Those who know me personally know that I never pass up the opportunity to be brutally honest. People probably won't and don't like me for it, but some of those people also preach "honesty is the best policy". They just don't like it when the policy kicks them in the arse.

My sister, Justyna, and I were browsing myspace profiles last night laughing at all the funny things people put on their pages. A girl decided to set her display name to "Black Vomit", while a person we've known for years displays his age as 21 when he is really only 18. As I browsed some more tonight as a way to fend off boredom and get some more laughs, I've come to realize even more how superficial and shallow people can be - especially teenage girls.

If one checks out a typical profile that belongs to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, the pages are consistent visually and content-wise. The page is decked out in powder blue, baby pink, or some other pastel color with glittering cutesy graphics splashed everywhere. She is pictured with his dozens upon dozens of friends, and then you see the ones where she is barely clothed and positioned in a provacative pose.

Funny...

These are the same type of girls who cry that they are being stalked by some middled-aged pervent who won't leave them alone. HELLO! Is it just me, or do the above mentioned soft porn photos scream, "Come and get me, baby, I'm yours!"

I'm all for freedom of speech and expression. On the other hand, where the heck are these girls' parents? Teenage girls don't know better. Many are naive and don't think anything bad will happen to them from some innocent fun on an internet website. My parents never had much trouble with me on this issue since I have enough sense and learning experience from mistakes other people have made. I know I'm not perfect, but I know where the line between safety and danger lies.

Another observation I have made is the fact that these young girls look much older than their real age. Heck, I thought a seventeen-year-old was thirty before I read what her real age was. Just today, I helped a girl find a book in the juvenile section. She must have been twelve or thirteen years old, but she could have passed for a college student. WTF? I thought Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister were for people who were in their late teens to twenties, not for preteen princesses who "think" they're too old to shop at Limited Too.

Kids and teenagers always want to be an adult already so they can have the freedom to do whatever they want to do. What they don't realize is that the older you are, the more responsibility and maturity is required of you. Sure, you can do what you want - freedom comes with a price though. Even at nineteen, I still have a lot of growing up to do, and I struggle with the realization that I am not a little kid anymore.

In the end, I don't care what those girls decide to do. The only thing I am concerned with is when they whine about getting unwanted attention from much older men and other consequences of "just having some fun".