Personality thief

That guy or gal you met on Match.com or MySpace who you were drawn to by the quirky humor and sparkling intelligence displayed in their personal profile could turn out in reality to be a personality stealer who ripped off that "About Me" section from someone else. In a article last week called "The Cut-and-Paste Personality," the Wall Street Journal reported that a growing number of people who are either too unimaginative, too boring or too lazy to come up with an interesting personal profile of their own are stealing them from other people. The Post reported that a search on MySpace turned up more than 700 recent comments accusing other people of stealing headlines, user names, songs, background designs and entire profiles. And even if that profile that caught your eye isn't stolen, it still may not have been written by that person, as there are many services and people out there who are paid to write engaging personal profiles for online daters.