Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Self Expressive Quality of Ringtones

Admit it...



If you are one of the countless throngs of people who has purchased or downloaded a ringtone for your cell phone, you probably already know that there is a certain amount of vanity involved. “What’s that?” you say. “What does vanity have to do with how I choose to alert myself when a call is coming in?” Please...who do you think you’re fooling?



The very nature of personalizing anything has it’s roots in vanity. Small mirrors designed for just one person are known as vanity mirrors. The most pretentious, hipster to yipster to decade long mid-life crisis baby boomer oriented magazine on the planet is aptly named Vanity Fair. License plates that proclaim what must be a message of great importance View the rest of this article


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