| Remember the old days of the Internet, before | | | | statement being even remotely true probably |
| the MySpace and FaceBook social-boom, when we | | | | sent you on a psychotic friend requesting |
| would all flock to join Rate My Picture | | | | frenzy. |
| websites to befriend strangers and | | | | |
| egotistically rate pictures on a scale from | | | | While your friends will all tell you you're |
| 1-10 to determine if we were hot or not? If | | | | cute no matter what, strangers with no |
| not, then it was before your time or when | | | | ulterior motive generally will speak the |
| computers cost more than used Cadillacs. | | | | truth. Your average picture rating website |
| | | | may no longer be hip in 2008 but there are |
| Oh those days of Rating Pictures! You use to | | | | still modern alternatives out there to get |
| check your account religiously just to see if | | | | your pictures rated and ranked that are still |
| you received new votes with the hopes of | | | | cool to use. |
| being scored high enough to earn fame on the | | | | |
| websites top list. Those were the good old | | | | Traditional rating websites give you a 1-10 |
| days of social networking and | | | | rating based off anonymous voting. Your score |
| self-indulgence! | | | | is misleading because you will have no idea |
| | | | who voted for you. You wouldn't brag or |
| But times have changed with the new | | | | complain about a vote from someone if you had |
| generation of the Internet. With websites | | | | zero interest in their opinion, would you? |
| like MySpace, FaceBook, and YouTube we no | | | | Only if you knew exactly who voted for you! |
| longer barter with strangers for votes to | | | | |
| earn a spot in the top 25, we now harass our | | | | A modern rating website called PicFights |
| friends to comment our pictures and profiles | | | | offers a unique spin on rating pictures. |
| with compliments so we can smile and secure | | | | Members aren't voted on a 1-10 scale. They |
| them a spot in our own Top 8, 16, or 124. | | | | are matched up against other members in |
| | | | picture competitions. Once a match is drawn a |
| There is no longer a need for picture rating | | | | random member decides the winner. All members |
| websites. Because between bottle highlights, | | | | can view who they won and lost against, and |
| fake tanning sprays, and diva knock-off Prada | | | | even who judged the match. It's this in your |
| and Coach sun glasses we are ALL hot! And we | | | | face approach that once again makes rating |
| are all hot because under every photo on our | | | | pictures fun, addicting, and sometimes even, |
| MySpaces and FaceBooks 106 guys and girls | | | | emotionally damaging! |
| agree. | | | | |
| | | | So take a few minutes away from annoying your |
| Half of you are sitting there smiling and | | | | friends on MySpace and reminding your |
| shaking your heads in agreement. The other | | | | ex-classmates on FaceBook that you really do |
| half are rolling their eyes and thinking 106 | | | | plan to see them this summer, and go register |
| guys? More like 313!. Just because you have | | | | an account on PicFights, or a similar website |
| 6,000+ friends on MySpace that all tell you | | | | to not only see how hot you are but how |
| you're hotter than Paris Hilton to get your | | | | truthful your friends are the next time they |
| number, doesn't make you any hotter than the | | | | leave you comments! |
| next girl! Ouch. The possibility of that | | | | |