Everyone knows Facebook is the new MySpace, a place to publicly air your personality in the hopes of reeling in a few new friends or potential dates. The difficult thing is tailoring your interests, highlighting the best parts of your personality, all in a few short keystrokes. Your tastes in music, television, and movies can make a strong first impression, and it's important to make it a good one.

Your real friends probably already know your tastes, so this section of your Facebook profile can be carefully designed to portray nearly any attitude. But beware of the pitfalls of the Favorite Movies section of the profile! Put down too few films, and you run the risk of a friend or internet stalker attempting to figure out your personality from only Sweet Home Alabama, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Goonies. Hardly enough to figure out if you're soul mates or not. But if you list too many? You come off as an indecisive people pleaser with bad taste. While the references to the Brothers Quay and Kieslowski may delight your obscure film friends, you run the risk of seeming pretentious. (Although if you put down Kieslowski, the chances are high that you really are pretentious.) Newer films such as Batman Begins or Knocked Up are great, and provide a good common ground for conversation.

Girls, if you are currently single, it might be best to ensure that you don't err too heavily on the side of the romantic comedies. Endless entries of Love Actually or Legally Blonde tend to overwhelm the senses, but one or two is perfectly acceptable. Fellas, say you put down American Psycho, you're letting all the ladies know you’re into violence, but intelligent violence. Same with war films or thrillers, less is more as one can go so quickly from "tough" to "creepy."

For either gender, instead of listing every single film from a director -- for instance, with Woody Allen people tend to list everything from Annie Hall to Match Point -- perhaps write something simple instead: "Anything Woody Allen" works just fine. Even if you don’t love "anything" Woody Allen, it still gets the point across. In that same vein, a period piece or two shows that you’ve got refined taste and can appreciate timeless stories, while listing a few basic foreign films such as Amelie shows you're open to new experiences and ideas. Bonus: anything subtitled proves that you can read!

The most important thing is to be yourself, but the most interesting version of yourself! All in all, you need a few classics, a few modern epics, a period piece, one or two foreign films, a few newer hits and you are ready to come off as cultured, fun-loving and cool. A difficult balance must be struck, but with these few handy tips you will be ready to impress both possible boyfriends and girlfriends, as well as the most staunch film buffs.

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