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Posted by: aku
Anyways, I don't think it's a bad idea. True, many people don't look at the profiles now, probably, but that might change if there was actually a reason to do so. And it might just help with the idea going around of making accounts a bit more personal. I don't think that it would require much more space, if it were only more room for text. The bigger issue would be the coding changes. I have no idea about what that would take.
Also, you could always leave it blank if you didn't want to use it.
As I said before, who is really so interested in me that they want to know as much as they can about me? Hopefully no one. If no one cared before that you could tell what the other person's taste in games are (which could, theoretically tell enough about the person if you were willing to investigate), why would they care now that they can find out what that person likes and dislikes?
Of course, you might be tempted to say that friends would use it to learn more about one another. But friends can learn about one another now, and usually do, with a healthy dose of conversation.
And I think the "making accounts more personal" wish is one that is based more on changing the account in two ways:
1) Making it more personal, which this would do.
2) Making it a "one-time deal."
The wish dictates that both should occur, though I think the second point is supposed to be more important than the first. Since people would still be able to make extra accounts with which to spam, it doesn't happen to fix any problems we have.
In the end, all you get are more things that few people care about and that remove the friendship capability among members (since now you're getting to know the person by a few lines that person wrote months ago as compared to trying to get to know the person through conversation).