hazliya | Ah, facebook memes

I have a hatred of those facebook memes where you take an image and tag it with your friends to suit, like a series of smiley faces with "The grumpy one" and "The silly one," etc. They had one for Disney. They had one for the casts of movies. They had one for everything.

Every other day, I get tagged in one of those obnoxious things. Normally, I wouldn't care, except that when you click to see more photos of a certain person, their photo collection is flooded with these 50-person memes.

As a rule, I untag myself from these things. I even wrote a note explicitly saying not to put me in them.

When I got a notification today that I'd been tagged in a photo, I clicked to see what it was. Upon seeing my name under the newest incarnation of the tagging meme, I sighed and let the mouse hover over my name to see what it was this time. Tag a new friend? Tag the person with the best smile? Tag someone who likes good music?

Nope. My name created a box over the very last square, with the words "Tag the prettiest person you know."

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Damn you, vanity. Damn you.