I was asking myself whether I’ve ever been ambitious with social networking. This blog subject popped up on my mind after I’ve seen what have happened around this internet world.
1. Friendster
When friendster was a trend, people seemed to have a match in gaining more friends and they’ve added a completely strangers as friends. At that time I didn’t even know how I could add friends, all I did was accepting friend’s requests and honestly, I didn’t bother whom I’ve added on friendster (except for sex seeker, of course!), I just didn’t care and I still don’t. I also have never provided a complete information about myself, the only information I’ve added is where I’ve studied, and the rest is a general information I don’t mind everyone to know about. Other than that I am being selective about the information I add, like my blog’s URL. I do have weblogger’s friends on my friendster, but I have never published my blog’s URL in my about me section on friendster because I assumed they already knew it via my blogwalking, even though I don’t do blogwalking that often, and because I think that those strangers on friendster don’t need to know it. Actually, it doesn’t matter whether they know it, but I’m just being selective because I don’t think friendster is safe, they can even access private photos without asking for a permission. I’ve never been ambitious to gain more friends on friendster because I find it stupid; Like people who want to let the others know that they have more friends, are hypocrite douchebags to not realise that it’s fake.
2. Facebook
Facebook is more secure, you won’t get any info of someone if you haven’t added him/her as friend, you can also decide who can see your certain information (by first making a group, adding friends into that group, then go to private setting). On facebook I do have (almost) complete information about myself, I also have family members on facebook and I ignore stranger’s friend requests. This will say I care more about facebook. But nowadays there’s another match in facebook, for instance a company has a match and tells people to add its company brand as friend on facebook, the person who got the most friends within certain time after s/he has added the company as friend will win a blackberry. If it happens in this country I don’t think I’ll ever do as it will be a chaos, I don’t know whom I’ve added. Maybe removing strangers after the winner is announced? It will be a lots of work to do and it only wastes time!
3. Plurk
Plurk was a trend, or is it … still a trend? I have joined plurk on June 2008, I currently have 102 friends and 199 fans on plurk, I have invited 12 people to plurk and my plurk karma is 80.38. My plurk karma isn’t that high because I have frozen it, which has taken me -1.00 karma point. I used to get addicted to plurk, couldn’t imagine my day without plurking and I always nagged when my karma point got lower, and if my karma got lower and lower, I’d lose certain features as: emoticons, and the ability to change theme. During the time I found plurking a waste of time and my real activities got abandoned, also, the karma is like feeding a baby, I had to feed it every day, every moment. It’s simply annoying! Now, most of my friends already have 100.00 plurk karma and guess what….they are still addicted to plurk! While every time I visit my plurk’s page I’m like: “what the hell was I doing, all the time?!?” Hence I’ve frozen the karma and abandoned my plurk.
4. Twitter
I adore twitter more for its simplicity, lots of famous people and webloggers are on twitter! I twit every day, especially after I got my Max. The most useful information I got is from twitter. I went back to twitter after I got enough with plurk and I realised that twitter is way better as it has no karma point and it has no comment link as what plurk has. What really caught my attention is that people want to gain more followers and they seem very ambitious that they got trapped into sites that tell that they can gain more followers! That kind of site usually uses your private information, just like twittercut who has stolen it. I’ve warned a few people but to no success they still believe those promising sites so don’t tell me that nobody has ever warned you if you suddenly followed more people and if you got: “I have found a way to get THOUSANDS of followers” thing on your own twit. I know that everyone (almost, then!) want to have more followers, I personally like to get followers, too, but I want to do it in a healthy way: whether they like my timeline, or they read my weblog, or they’re just a followhore? Who knows! I don’t follow people’s timelines for fun, though.
5. Weblog
Whether I’m ambitious? Whether weblogging is involved in social networking? I am not sure, but there are some weblog’s etiquette which is called netiquette (this term is not only used in weblog’s world, though). I think you don’t have to ask me whether I’m ambitious with weblogging, because I am! Prove? I’ve purchased my own host and domain name for my weblog! Since 2002 when I first started blogging I didn’t blog because it was a trend, I didn’t even know that it would become a trend. I like to share, I like to give my written opinion on the net and let the world know that I exist! ;-) But my ambitiousness hasn’t led me into getting weblog’s awards, it’s just that I don’t think I’ll ever stop blogging and I do really, really hope that this URL will still exist in the next 10 years as I’ve changed my past URLs for a couple of times I eventually got sick of moving and fixing my databases.
So, internet completes my day! Me and the internet have become one body! ;-)
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