aren't you ....?

someone told me once that i didn't look like what they had imagined i would look. i'm not quite sure what that means. i really don't imagine what people look like when i talk to them via email/im/phone (for work)/forums/blogs. maybe you think it's lie, but it's not. maybe you think it's weird, it may very well be.

so i was thinking, that maybe it would help to have some sort of distinguishing tell each time you conversed with someone via any of the above blind ways. maybe we should have descriptions of ourselves ... in our own words ... before we start chatting. example:

• phone rings at work
• before it clicks over to me a voice comes on and states:

"inkeddaisy: goofy, funny, compassionate, friendly, smart"

now the person calling has in their head a vision of someone like drew barrymore or carol burnett or janeane garafolo (until they hear my voice which never fails to produce one of two comments: is "your mommy there?" or "you know you should do voiceovers in cartoons"). which is sort of what i want to convey anyway. no messy wondering, no conceptuals based on whomever you happened to be thinking about at that moment, and better than that - no surprises.

now, you may be saying to yourself "BUT inked, you don't look like drew barrymore or carol burnett or janeane garafolo" - so yes there is ultimately a flaw in my thinking (not entirely unheard of). but i still think that you get to have the general idea of what i find most pressing about myself up front.

wouldn't it be great to have honesty like that in the cyber world? i mean you would be able to know that the dude who is posting in your thread is basically NOT a bad guy but just lacks certain social skills that most people have so you would be more understanding towards him. you would know before each person posted what they thought of themselves and what they thought was most important so you could actually see if you wanted to engage in a conversation with them. the possibilities are endless.

of course this is all based on the assumption that people are going to be honest, cuz:

inkeddaisy: 38DD, tall, blonde, rich, thin

it's a recipe for disaster