by Sarah Mo (Tue Feb 02, 2010)
The latest viral trend on
Facebook - Doppelgänger week - has left
me thinking my friends have all suddenly become more attractive than I remember.
It all started a few days
ago. I logged on to Facebook to ‘keep in touch with my friends,' (i.e., pass
the time by looking at pictures of people I haven't actually spoken to in
years) and noticed that a friend of mine had changed her profile photo to a
gorgeous picture of Jennifer Garner. Was she revealing a kinship, or a hetero-crush
perhaps, or had she just slipped into full-on delusion?
I read her corresponding
status update: ‘It's Doppelgänger
week! Change your profile picture to someone famous you have been told you look
like. After you update your profile with your evil twin photo, paste this to
your status.'
So...she had
slipped into full on delusion after all. My friend is an attractive girl, and I
do not want to sound superficial, but she looks nothing like Jennifer Garner - not
even close!
The next day, I
logged on to read the morning Facebook status updates and noticed that the
trend had spread like online wildfire. Friends were posting pictures of Kiefer
Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Molly Ringwald, Audrey Hepburn, Phoebe Cates, Ben
Stiller...the parade of supposed ‘Doppelgängers'
went on and on.
So, Doppelgänger week has left me wondering: Are Facebook users being honest with themselves? Are they grasping at complimentary straws? Have they
actually compared themselves to
their celebrity Doppelgänger, or are they just posting pictures of people they wish
they looked like?
But then again - whose picture would you post?
