Flattery

Is imitation really the best form of flattery? I don't think so...

In college I had a classmate who practically did everything I did, bought everything I bought, talked the way I talked and even did her hair the same way I did mine. At first it was amusing, then it just became frustrating. I couldn't make a statement cause the next day it would be moot. I had no control over it so I let it be.

That was that...today I find myself in that familiar situation only this time it's completely different. They've taken imitation to a whole new level. Impersonation. And I hate it.

There's a person pretending to be me on a popular social networking site and it's getting to be frustrating. I chanced upon this profile when I was using the bu's itouch and was searching for my profile to show him something. When I searched my name, lo and behold there was another account in my name...with my picture. There are 3 actually, one didn't have a photo so I wasn't going to assume right away that I was the only living person in the planet with the name. So I let that be, but the other account. It was a poser account with pictures of me lifted from different sites on the net. Some were from press releases. Others were from blogposts, others just from plain stalking my account. It's really annoying. I reported this already and although they did manage to take down the account after almost half a year. Here I am in the same situation again. The faker account is back with the same annoying grammar and the same modus, taking my profile photos. I hope whoever it is gets a life. It's frustrating.

So there. I just needed to rant. NO. Imitation is really NOT the best form of flattery. Leave me alone poser!