Doppelganger Week! Facebook Helps Us Get Our Priorities Straight

It’s Doppelganger Week! (Doppelganger? I don’t even know ‘er!) Just kidding, of course you do — she’d the celebrity everyone’s told you looks just like you! Now you should tell the world! Because looking like a celebrity is cool.

Sigh. Facebook giveth, and Facebook taketh away. Yes, it’s a platform for wonderful things, but it’s also a platform for idiocy like Doppelganger Week. From Urlesque:

IT’S CELEBRITY LOOK ALIKE WEEK!! Change your profile pic to a celebrity that people tell you that you look like. If you have more than one, change it every day, until Saturday! Let’s see if we can all still recognize each other! Re-post this on your status, and see our celebrity look alikes!

J.D. Salinger would totally be all over this.

Actually, the juxtaposition is sort of crazy. Can you imagine how catatonic Franny would be if she had Facebook? There’s pretty much nothing Zooey could have said to her — as Seymour or otherwise — to overcome the supreme vapidity of something like Doppelganger Week.

And there you have it. The modern age, distilled in that one depressing comparison: Somehow finding a way to apply Franny & Zooey to Doppelganger Week. Gimme a moment, I’ll figure out what Holden Caulfield might have RT’d on Twitter.

p.s. I totally look like Megan Fox.

Doppelganger Week on Facebook – Have Your Friends Become Celebrities Yet? [Urlesque]
Interview With Bob Patel, Creator of “Doppelganger Week” on Facebook [HuffPo]
Doppelganger Week On Facebook: What Celebrity Do I Look Like? [NowPublic]

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