How to Tell if Someone's Emo

Ways to Tell if Someone's Emo (gathered from various websites)

1. While most of us balance our emotions, someone who is Emo tends to be overly extreme on one end of the spectrum: pity, self-loathing, low self-esteem, paranoia. Tend to be overdramatic about everything, "the burning embers of my soul."

2. Your hairstyle is dyed black at least up to the collar bone and tend to have bangs covering your eyes. Rest of your hair is an odd color - platinum blonde or hot pink.

3. Wear the same type of clothing that has you wondering why they need three belts, why their color scheme is all the same, etc.

4. Follow one stream of music - usually punk or whiny though they consider it good or "indie."

5. Tend to write sad and depressing poems, songs, diaries, journal entries, blogs, etc. Attempting to gain attention from others. Subject matters include heartache, ex girlfriends, ex boyfriends, hurting themselves, feeling sorry about themselves or small glimmers of hope, "today I felt kind of smart."

6. Tend to have a certain posture.

7. If most of your clothing is from Hot Topic.

8. Your username has a lot of "X"s in them.

9. You like hearts (especially the broken, bandaged ones)

10. You think Fall Out Boy is punk.

11. Your band name is long and makes no sense (i.e. Robot Graduation Party)

12. You're getting pissed off at this blog entry and will tell your friends to go read it, inevitably text or blog about it and how wrong I am on your blog/on your website.