Getting to Know You...

Over the past few years, I've developed a love-hate relationship with the amount of personal information I want to shamelessly divulge to the anonymous Internet masses.  I tend to go back and forth on the reasons I wish to provide certain tidbits and hide others from my "friends" and random strangers.  Aside from the obvious, I generally don't want to be misrepresented by a few likes or dislikes as I've certainly made a face value judgement based on what a person lists as their favorite this or that.

I was thinking just now about what it is that makes me who I am.  If I were to write an actual descriptive "About Me" (I never really do), what would it need to include for others to get a true sense of who I am?

Would I need to list the genres of music and movies that I enjoy?  The artists and artworks I admire?  Would I need to include a brief history of the negative things that have happened in my life so the person would get a sense of why my psychological edges are rough?  Do I include personal victories over some of those demons?  Should I list the fact that I'm autistic or that I have seizures, a bad stomach?  What about a physical description, just in case my photos are unclear?  Should I include a rundown of my personal style and the things I find fashionable in that description?  Would it be best to describe my basic religious beliefs (and history) and my political leanings so that it never had to awkwardly come up in conversation?  What else?

This is what I think about each time I look at any profile, particularly my own: what image is this projecting?  But really, is it even remotely important?  Does anyone (besides me) look at it and care?

Probably not.

Ha!