More and more people seem to want to define themselves with verbs, e.g. "writer of blogs" or "lover of dogs." I see it everywhere. Not one of them, though (at least not that I've found) has defined themselves as a "mounter of bandwagons" or "follower of herds." But they must be, since I can't believe that so many people came up with this same annoying practice independently.
The only explanation I can come up with for this phenomenon is that most people want to feel like they belong to some group or something, and to simply say "I love dogs" doesn't make the speaker seem part of the group of dog lovers. Perhaps they are concerned that using the word "I" would make them sound self centered. But then, telling the world what you love, or what you do, kind of already tells the world exactly that. Well, whatever, I don't like it.
And of course, I put that wrong. This isn't defining oneself in terms of verbs... rather it is defining oneself in terms of nouns. We use the verb "to be" way to often, and it's no where near as interesting as other verbs.
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