When I was a kid and my friends and I got into some kind of trouble that landed us in a heap of shit my mom would inevitably ask the age-old question, “Well, if everybody jumped off a bridge, would you jump also?” And the answer, in my adolescent days, would probably have been “Yes, I would jump off a bridge if everyone else was.” Fine, you don’t know any better at that age, and that doesn’t make it ok, but you’re supposed to learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others right? So you would hope that by the time you’re an adult you’ll have a decent enough filter to know right from wrong.

Apparently that’s not the case because somehow many adult men think it’s acceptable to take a picture of themselves with their shirts off to use for their Myspace profile when they’ve surly seen the tragedy that is the shirtless profile pic that is rampant on Myspace.

Dudes…..just because one guy did it….doesn’t mean you should too. Don’t jump off that bridge….please. Do us all a favor gents and keep your tops on no matter how ripped YOU think your abs are. If you’re snapping shots in your poorly lit, roach-coach basement apartment, do yourself a favor and keep the shirt on. No amount of Photoshop can hide your desperation.

Going bare chested won’t hide the fact that, sorry, but you’re kind of a loser. You couldn’t even find a friend to help you take your photo; you had to either hold the camera yourself or put it on the desk and hit the self timer. It comes off completely desperate and pathetic, like a little mouse that just ate a plate full of D-Con but has just enough life to claw his way under your radiator to die and stink up your apartment for a week.

There are exceptions to the rule though. If it happens to be a snap shot of you at the beach or something like that and you happen to have your shirt off….well I can deal with that. Or if it’s a joke, like this guy who took the time to set up a Myspace profile just to have this great snapshot of himself with “I love beer,” written across his chest. He doesn’t care, that’s what makes it funny.

Bottom line, if you find yourself asking the question, “Shirt or no shirt?” You SHOULD now know the answer! We can only hope.