Facebook quizzes have already been commented on by Callan as to their sheer pointlessness. Well, yes. They can be quite entertaining, though, albeit briefly. I am #513: Friends (according to ‘Which XKCD comic are you?’), I should really be at Oxbridge (‘What university SHOULD you really go to?’ – oh, the irony), and I may or may not be a potato. All well, all harmless!
It came up on my news feed earlier that a friend had taken the ‘What Psychiatric Disorder do you have?’ quiz, and had come out with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Her comment was, “Everyone seems to be getting this. Bit of a cop-out.” Well, presumably that’s because most people taking the quiz don’t have a Psychiatric Disorder, and most people experience some degree of restlessness or stress at some point. Hence the need for the word ‘generalised’.
I think possibly I’m just rather unreceptive to that sort of thing at the minute – since coming back to Durham a couple of weeks ago my moods have been up and down and down and up and a bit all over the place, with no cause more than the obvious. And yes, it’s a stupid Facebook quiz, and yes, it’s just meant to be a bit of fun, and really no, I hope that people will have enough common sense not to use that sort of thing for self-diagnosis. I just find it a bit tasteless, that’s all. What next, ‘What cancer do you have?’ ? Ooo, ovarian, my favourite.
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