The sudden boom of social networking sites in recent years has prompted users to evaluate their own characteristics and interests to a degree which was previously seen as fundamentally narcissistic. The blasé titled 'About Me' sections allow the user to delve into any and every corner of their thoughts, which often results in a jumble of ponders so void of correct punctuation the reader is inclined to believe that the author's comma button has broken. An overly familiar trend of these sections is the inclusion of the phrase 'random'.
Each time I come across this word I sigh, especially when reading the context it is situated within. Users state, behind the guise of the world wide web, 'I'm just totally random' so frequently that the irony is so blatant it's almost inconceivable. The ability to connect with millions across the globe with a few clicks of a mouse works as a wonderful tool for appreciating just how many billions of people cohabit this world with us, and perhaps it is this that probes the internet user to make such claims. The beauty of 'randomness' as it were, is that each human being is entirely different to his or her neighbour and no list of quotes, absurd messages to friends or quirky interests will ever reasonably deem anyone more random than another.
The overly enforced ideologies of human moulds presented through media and our culture suggest that there is normal, and there is abnormal. It just seems a shame that we can not all be identified as being wonderfully abnormal...
