squishings!
The year has started, officially. I again have the next two months already filled with plans which appeared on my agenda magically (well not really, they were forced on me). This means bonking and banging MS Office Outlook in the evenings, instead, because of meetings during the day. But before I leave my child, this blog, I’ll post one more as an interim eulogy. Till then, till then. Baboosh.
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Can I just say how much I adore this ‘web social networking’ phenomenon? I have never been this connected to friends and acquaintances which helps me a lot — being here. Even if my profile remains private and mostly my friends are filled with people I already know – there still are some interesting people to meet (though I don’t get especially excited about the opportunity to uplift the ego with messages that contain, hey momma wanna get together?). Had I been 10 years older, maybe I would not even think of setting up an account. I would have missed the chance of finding sandbox/kindergarten friends; I would not have gotten the chance of developing friendships which I did not think would have worked before; I would have missed out on all the entertainment I get from reading profiles, testimonials and blogs. When you are in strict orders of the doctor to stay and rot at home like I did a few days ago, it’s a great alternative to amuse yourself. How can friendster (or any social networking site, for that matter) pull you out of boredom?
1. You get the latest updates from friends, where they are, how they’re doing and if you would like to connect with them on another level, you can write them a message or send them a smile – how cute is that? Nyaha. I wasn’t born to be cute, but when I send a smile, I get to be a bit.
2. You can live vicariously through blogs, watch some amazing videos and listen to peole invent the soundtrack of their lives.
3. You can count how many times the words ass and bitch appear on photo captions. Snoop Dogg, not very proud of ya. Your influence on the youth went straight into their mouths. Where have I been? Oh and I didn’t notice when bitch (or its more angsty ghetto – yet a tad more glamorous - version ‘biatch’) became inanely popular, that everyone says it like its some other word like… I don’t know… uhm… ‘like?’
4. You can see how some people really don’t know what to put on their photo captions. Like me. So, I ended up listing events or when and where the photos were taken. When I don’t know what to put, I leave it alone. Or maybe I will start to make a plea for people to make my own captions, but I imagine at this point… everyone else has better things to do. Maybe.
5. You will notice how it has promoted personal expression. More like, hi this is me, I don’t care if you like me, you’re visiting my page so… eat this. It has made everyone at least one ounce more confident of themselves. I know someone who once said friendster has made her like herself more. She wasn’t able to grasp how nice it would be to see herself on a website and be seen in turn by her network. Now she does. And she’s not at all scared to say –I’m sexy, I’m pretty, I rock – which I think is just grand. (I’m not there yet. As for me, I still see myself in the morning mirror and say, I would have looked nicer if I were a guy. Besides, we cannot all rock, if everyone did, nobody else would be watching, right? I like to watch – nyaharhar – how’s that for creepy?). I think its cool that it has boosted morale in a way, I really do. And hopefully soon, even honesty.
6. I love profiles. Reading, that is. I couldn’t make my own profile properly so I excused myself and made this blog instead so I wouldn’t have to explain myself. I hate explaining myself. My absolute awe goes to those people with wonderful quips on themselves, either just a line or a bullet point list. I’ve seen one profile though which I think used up all the characters, I was looking at it completely astonished at how well he knew himself, much more write about it. And it wasn’t an easy read .. it wasn’t one of those which said ‚‘likes sharon cuneta, hates andrew e‘ or anything like that. It looked to me like a rosary prayer so I didn’t really have the time nor patience to read it. But when I did, it was quite disappointing because it wasn’t saying anything much more than,“I’m like this, but not really, I believe in this, unless, my philosophy is like this but maybe sometimes this‘ so in total, I really didn’t get it.
7.The photos are the best. Love it.
8.I know of real life romances springing from friendster or some other circle of friends concept site thing. =)) what did I just say?
9. Friendster is valued at usd53 million, not bad. My Space has apparently taken it over on 2004 in terms of page views. Who cares though, I only need one and… I truthfully am lazy to make another.
10. The best thing about friendster is… You’ll never know what is real.
