It's often said that the Internet allows you to reinvent yourself. Even if that's your game, upgrading your identity through a digital persona takes work and some talent.

Setting up your goth-themed MySpace page is one thing, but consistently posting believable, angst-ridden declarative statements in the voice of The Cure's Robert Smith can frankly be a little draining. Witticisms in 140 characters or less only count as clever if delivered in 7 hours or less. 'Hotpants147' on Lavalife, whose pants are, in reality, neither hot, nor pants, but an enormous floral-patterned muumuu, best brush up on Photoshop.

But as any YouTube mash up artist knows, the creative components for appearing smarter, funnier, more creative or weirder when crafting your personal web brand without breaking a sweat already freely exist online, and beckon you in the name of social media success.

Ever wonder how that otherwise dull acquaintance of yours manages to tweet several links a day to those preciously ironic sites, illiciting multiple re-tweets from friends ROTFLing?

There's a decent chance they've happened up StumbleUpon, which serves up highly rated web sites within any given category in random fashion at the click of a mouse. Tell StumbleUpon what categories you like, say Humor, Music or Self Improvement, and it will generate a seemingly never-ending supply of great sites every time you 'Stumble'. It also lets you vote on each site, and thus quickly learns and delivers what kind of sites you like, and what your friends probably like, who haven't heard of Stumble Upon, and now think you're the funniest human alive when sharing your stumbles while still managing a full-time job, marriage and little league soccer. Give it a whirl, in under 30 seconds I generated these 3 destinations:

#1: Bound to garner knowing chuckles from my buddies via its Girls are Evil equation ,
#2: A mouth watering, easy to prepare chicken recipe I can share with my frazzled soccer mom crew.
#3 A site that creates the illusion that I am thoughtful and environmentally conscious.

If cutting and pasting links on your way to the top of your social media tribe leaves you breathless, there is Social Status Generator: pick a category and the tool plays on your sloth and/or natural lack of panache by randomly generating social media status updates for sites like Twitter and Facebook.

Assuming the prefix 'Dave is', The 'Funny' tag gave me '...mostly made of water' - perfectly droll. 'Wise' allowed me to bestow this kernel of wisdom upon my circle: 'The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.' Hmnn, indeed. Or for my mother: (Dave) '...Thinks that a day without sunshine is like night.'

I could go on, researching and supplying any number of the tools out there that will aid in your quest to to be all you hope to be online, but wouldn't all that work be counter intuitive to the spirit of this post? So, I end with my personal fave: Retweeting Fake Onion headlines without the 'RT@' acknowledgment nor article link. Here's how funny people think I am as of late:

Nation Gears Up For Annual Carny Migration.
Run-Down Amusement Park Owner Now Lives Out Of Bumper Car.
Man Escapes Eritrean Civil War To Clean Martini Puke From Back Of Taxi.

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