My dad taught me to never give out my real name, age,
address, or photos. This seemed obvious to me. My fake
birthday entry was always my crush's birthday plus a
random year from the early 1900s. I spent hours making
my avatars look like everything, anything but myself. It
didn’t matter how people (mis)pronounced my name, how
young I was, how squinty my eyes were. I can't remember
my crush's birthday anymore. He was a Gemini, but that
doesn't help enough. According to my fake birthday, I'm
dead, anyway.
Grade levels
7-9 / Sec. 1-3
10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1
Tags
Common Poetic Terms and Forms
Contest Criteria
Setting up an internet profile makes the speaker question everything she knows about herself.
Bibliographical info
Sennah Yee, “Internet Safety” from How Do I Look? Copyright © 2017 by Sennah Yee. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Source: How Do I Look (Sennah Yee / Metatron Press, 2017)
