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Well, my honest opinion of them is that they are very trendy and everybody and her sister has decided at some point in the last ten years that they have to have one. This seems to have created a culture where more people than not have holes in their tongue and various parts of their face. I think it's kind of weird when something that changes your body permanently becomes so popular...I mean it's one thing to wear a certain style of clothes or dye your hair - you can always change that later. Tattoos and piercings are more lasting. As for socially, I'm pretty much indifferent to them, and they certainly don't cause me to become fearful in any way. Of course, keep in mind that 80 or 90% of my friends and neighbors have one though. Personally I'm grateful that I never succumbed to the trend and got a tattoo or stretched my earlobes or whatever. I value my capability to change at will without a permanent label of some kind on my body.
That has nothing to do with you or your motives personally, that's just my overall opinion.
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