[size=m]not myspace[/size]
Okay this may read as rant like because I am really annoyed right now. I went to myspace to read their privacy policy after reading (e:alison)'s myspace excitement [inlink]alison,99[/inlink] and "Robby" some random guy's profile located in the "cool new people" section crashed my browser in the middle of this entry. It hung for about 30 minutes after which I gave me control back. But not before I had completely re-written this text. I don't know if I hate the Mac or the myspace of both.
[size=m]elmwoodstrip.org[/size]
So now how is this related? Finally, I will have the funds, what the hell should I do with the site. Part of me is pro-expansion. The side of me that wants to add more features (mobile especially) and get a lot more Buffalonians in here talking about life in Buffalo, to try and work with other groups like Artvoice and Buffalo Rising, and to generally advertise and reach out to a larger audience. The other side of me that asks at what point does it become something anonymous like friendster, and myspace. Basically a tool that is used to get a date or to shop around the sex circuit. Does it happen at 500 or 1500 or 3000?
I was speaking to (e:shawnr) the other day and he helped me realize that the reason I am uninterested in those communities is because of the fact that they are all centered around hooking up and I am already taken -twice over. He has the same issue as he is married. Like how many people do you know that are dating seriously but are really into craig's list friends, myspace or friendster. It just loses it's draw.
Not to mention that it drives me crazy that all of those type of communities are like a front end for data mining and selling that data to marketers. How does everyone forget that. I mean it isn't like I am selling people's personal data to marketers and I am not looking for a date, so there is no advantage to the creation of that type of community.
Won't it be weird when we start having MyBabies (coined by Paul Visco 11/2005), children born out of a myspace hookups. The implications of all of this online social networking is overwhelming. Maybe I am just bitter because I lost my best online friend to craig's list and myspace. I can't wait until she gets a partner and settles down.
I guess I am just afraid (e:strip) will turn into the online old pink and that was never my intention. So where was I going with this. What should I do with the site? What is (e:strip) v4? Maybe it will just stay like this forever.
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11/09/2005 09:57 #32335
Not MyspaceCategory: web
11/08/2005 20:19 #32334
Voting for JudyCategory: politics
[size=m]Voting for Judy[/size]
I am going to vote for Judy
tonight. As always I am going to vote for who I believe in rather than against the person I want least. I remember when I was a kid that my parents would never tell me who they voted for. Somehow that confused me and lead me to become a staunch republican as a child. I had no idea what it meant. I just liked the elephant tie clip someone got me and I was mesmerized by Ronald Reagan. As an adult, I know my parents were/are not republicans.
I am going to vote for Judy
tonight. As always I am going to vote for who I believe in rather than against the person I want least. I remember when I was a kid that my parents would never tell me who they voted for. Somehow that confused me and lead me to become a staunch republican as a child. I had no idea what it meant. I just liked the elephant tie clip someone got me and I was mesmerized by Ronald Reagan. As an adult, I know my parents were/are not republicans.
11/07/2005 22:22 #32333
IndiaCategory: love
I was checking out an Indian site refering to the release of the new Microsoft Products today when I saw this advertisement.
hodown - 11/08/05 11:25
Maybe I should arrange my own love match!
Maybe I should arrange my own love match!
11/07/2005 22:04 #32332
Paul's Taxi ServiceCategory: travel
I spent the day as a Taxi for (e:lilho) and and (e:terry). It gave me an excuse to spend the day borders surfing through math and computer books. I ended up spending another $90 on computer books. Some more javascript - I think I may know it all now, a ruby on rails book, and a trigonometry book just for fun.
I felt like sucj an idiot in the math section because before I found the remedial books I was in the math theory section and I could not understand anything. Math is my weak point. Not because I am not capable but because I never tried.
I drove a lot, the clouds were beautiful
(e:lilho) goes to school
(e:terry) gets his dinner
Today's Light paintings
I felt like sucj an idiot in the math section because before I found the remedial books I was in the math theory section and I could not understand anything. Math is my weak point. Not because I am not capable but because I never tried.
I drove a lot, the clouds were beautiful
(e:lilho) goes to school
(e:terry) gets his dinner
Today's Light paintings
11/06/2005 21:37 #32331
GoodlebergCategory: dead
We went to (MAP TO: GOODLEBERG) goodleberg cemetary [inlink]matthew,665[/inlink] to visit the dead children. It was much smaller than I expected it to be. Maybe we didn't see the whole thing. It was very stormy out. In fact the ghost children saved our lives by stalling us an extra minute while a giant tree fell in the path the car would have taken.
More light paintings
(e:terry) with (e:mike)'s cam
More light paintings
(e:terry) with (e:mike)'s cam
(e:strip) is a lot differant then myspace. I like them both for differant reasons. The reason I joined it originaly is because a band I like (the juliet dagger and also last conservative another good band) are members. I like the [message boards groups] (like about buffalo and wrestling) then they have forums wich can be fun also. If my computer loaded pages and handled streaming music quickly I would use it to discover other bands. There have been a couple people who I would e-mail with. But it is verry differant. I'm not sure in wich direction you want to take (e:strip) but maybe expand it slowly. Maybe make it so if you click on a Journal topic it would list every journal enerty under that topic my tittle and writer. That way if someone wanted to read journals about hockey they could do that with out searching each user. I think that as the site grows as long as you guys keep having parties and get togathers you will keep your vision of it.
(e:drchlorine) and i had a huge debate about this last nite: yeah, myspace is a total piece of bullshit. it's like having a personal billboard and advertising yourself as the sexiest, most seemingly appealing version of you you can conjure up. and i likes it.
on another note, (e:Strip) is nothing like that -- most people are good friends with outher members and there is very little self-promotion going on, i think.
and anyways, an online pink wouldn't be so bad.
I never had anything to do with myspace! You must be thinking of some "composite character" online friend, lol. Hey, did you finish your thesis yet? If you're going to take liberties with history, I'm going to have to edit that thing for accuracy. ;-)
(e:Paul), (e:Paul), (e:paul).... (e:Strip) would be much more popular if you made it into a hooking-up site. That's what sells, man! Bring the (e:hotties) back, have a pajama party :::link::: or two, and let the fun begin! ;-)
I was talking about you twisted, lol. I don;t have any other online best friends.
I thought I was your "best online friend?" Ha! I guess you say that to all the peeps. Anyway, my obsession with estrip has absolutely nothing to do with hooking up. So, does that mean anything? You know what, fuck this. I'm outta here.
btw, what was the online old pink like?
ok, i wont argue with you on the data mining stuff, but i will argue with the hooking up statement. i somehow don't get that impression from the people i saw on there. it's mostly to show off and have people comment on your pics and how beautiful they are and to show people how different you are from others by posting quizzes and fun snippets about yourself just like everyone else. and most of all, it's there to show how popular you are and how many friends you have and who are their friends and how horribly cool you are by not being cool.
but then again i only look at the freaks (in a literal sense) and all their friends, so the average joe and jane might be all about hooking up, while the freaks all about saying fuck you and fuck off and contemplating suicide while flicking you the finger in a red corset and pink hair.