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The Is An Online Quiz Site? Essay

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hey does anyone remember when okcupid was an online quiz site? i do. the world seemed a lot easier those days, when answering a few questions would allow me to gain insight into my deepest desires, personality and which teenage mutant ninja turtle i was most like. inevitably, the natural paradox of improved technology and interconnectedness is that with increased ease of access and simplicity also comes unforeseen complexities. gone are the halcyon days of quizilla—we find ourselves in the fast-paced, no-nonsense era of buzzfeed, a site which can determine “which magic mike star you should get a lapdance from” with a terrifying, deadly efficiency.

so basically the point i am trying to get at with all the introductory crap i just spewed is that i’m a big fan of questionnaires that can compartmentalize and label the various facets of my personality. i vastly prefer being told what i am rather than wasting countless hours on earnest self-reflection and independently constructing a sense of self on purpose because ain’t nobody got time or the bugspray for that walden shit.

however, since i deign myself superior to the superficial diagnoses provided by buzzfeed and its various other modern contemporaries, i only subscribe to the most traditional and old-school pseudosciences such as astrology, numerology, geomancy, graphology, etc. i also believe in the mbti or myers-briggs type indicator based on jung’s theory of personality/archetypes because that stuff was developed almost a

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