Who are bloggers in real life?
2 December 2007, 2:00 pm. 17 Comments. Filed under Web-related.
What type(s) of people hang on the Internet? Who in the world would own websites not for the sake of commercial work? Why would anyone blog about his/her personal life and who the heck reads?
When people in real life hear about me blogging, their expressions tell me they're probably expecting something along the lines of the typical heaps-of-pink-and-glitter blah. But after the select few proceed to my website, it's the whole "Did you do this by yourself?" "Yeah." From here onwards, I'm seen as a no-life web geek who's going to fail her exams—until I actually don't. It's weird, because there's that whole bunch of young bloggers here and there who are apparently top students here and there. Now we're all just no-life web geeks. You could argue that geeks are perfectly fine (as they are), but I do actually have a life.
I don't like the tone certain "friends" use when they say: "What are you up to in the holidays? Doing your websites again?" Yes, yes, to those crazy binging party-girls, I'm just a boring loner who refuses to skateboard across busy roads and would rather do part-time work or sit at my computer during the holidays. But when I do have a choice, of course I would ditch the web for some fun day-out with better friends.
So who are we bloggers in real life? According to those parents of mine who still have their minds stuck in the 20th century, people who roam on the web are either slackers, pedophiles, rapists... or all of them. As for me, I am who I am and I'm none of those (only a bit of a procrastinator which I wouldn't quite classify as a slacker yet).
Are you content with your image amongst the offline ignorant around you? But who are you in real life? If you really are a rapist, well, I wouldn't know until you try to rape me. So before then, you can be who you claim to be—just another blogger like me who has a life to blog about.
Stuck for words
22 November 2007, 8:47 pm. 10 Comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Web-related.
You're asking "WTF". Being a nice person like always, I have provided answers to your questions:
- WTF? My eyes.
- What are they doing? Moooo... ving.
- Woooo... ai? Looking.
- For what? Tips on how to stalk you.
- Be serious
Don't look at me like that! Fine. Stuff to blog about. - Can you make it stop moving? Still looking!
- Why don't you have a mouth? Cause I'm stuck for words.
- Are you stuck for breathing too? Can you shut up?
- Why do they look so ugly? ...
I was collecting information on this topic I wanted to blog about, but I decided it wasn't "the right time" to so it's been delayed to December. However, I just had this urge to blog. I went back to read up on Jordie's Blogger's Block tips again but couldn't really come up with anything.
So here are some questions:
- What do you do if you want to blog but don't know what to blog about?
- Any suggestions as to what I can/should blog about?
- How are you crazy NaBloPoMo people finding life?
To be fair to my own eyes though, the real-life ones are definitely prettier than the ones up there. 
How the Internet kills time
20 November 2007, 3:13 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
This is a breakdown of how I currently waste my life on the web.
Profile sites
- Facebook: I log on at least once a day. The Facebook applications are such life-wasters, but I still love them.
- Bebo: to be honest, it's boring. But I log on whenever I get an email notification for a new comment, etc.
Forums
- Snark: we all love Snark. How can you not love Snark? It's one place where people actually understand what you're talking about. (Because everyone pretty much speaks the language of gibberish.)
- Happy Mapling: lots of idiots, lots of bums, lots of fun.
Bookmarking sites
- del.icio.us: now when I search for things, I tend to look in del.icio.us first, Google second. Because the sites bookmarked by more people tend to be better, I guess.
- Digg: not so much actually, but there can be interesting articles around.
Art communities
- deviantART: always new additions, always amazing hence I always visit. I'm not quite happy that it's usually just the popular and "well-respected" artists that clog the front-page. It's harder to find other new but great artists.
- Skyefairy: for an art community much closer to the web circle I'm in (or was in). It covers up for the downside I pointed out for deviantART.
For most of the above, my username is wildx22. Actually, that's my username for almost anything.
That doesn't seem like a long list, but I sure as hell spend hours on them each day; plus the MSN, reading other sites I subscribed to and of course, recently admiring Rikkye's new layout... I have no life because the Internet sucked it away from me.
So how does the Internet kill your time? (That's laying the blame on the Internet, not me. )
