| "Introduce Yourself": Social Networking Experiences Share your social networking experiences in various platforms. This also serves as your introduction. No need for details about yourself (like you would usually impart in other clubs or forums)--that's what your profile's about section is for! ~,~' 2012-12-26T15:44:50+08:00 2013-01-26T10:26:11+08:00 |
weakwithwordsJan 25, 2013 6:27 PM
| Naysayers almost effortlessly make the possible seem impossible since they usually just parrot generalized, oversimplified, or uninspired arguments. However, the proper, but significantly more difficult way to refute an idea is to discredit all major and most minor cases. In contrast, a single convincing solution can prove feasibility though it isn't a trivial pursuit either. |
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| Naysayers almost effortlessly make the possible seem impossible since they usually just parrot generalized, oversimplified, or uninspired arguments. However, the proper, but significantly more difficult way to refute an idea is to discredit all major and most minor cases. In contrast, a single convincing solution can prove feasibility though it isn't a trivial pursuit either. |
I also started my computer life with a IBM Clone in the late 80's early 90's. I remember being so jealous that my friend, now brother in law, had a 28.8k modem. It was so fast back then. LoL We used to run our own BBS with three lines so people could play Trade Wars and chat. Eventually we became part of a larger BBS called Club BBS. I just Googled it and it appears that now it's a Spanish site? Back in the day I think they had a 100 phone lines hooked up to there house. Really is crazy to realize how far we've come. My next computer online social blogging addiction wasn't really until 2006 when I joined Netflix. And yes it used to be a really great site that allowed you to make friends, write reviews, make lists, and a lot more social functions. I still talk with people I met there once upon a time. During being the primary administrator of NTZ, I was also pretty active on Anime News Network for a while. Much more than today. I don't remember when or who exactly introduced me to Myanimelist, but once I was introduced, I quickly found it to be an immensely useful site to log the anime I'd seen, verses more traditional methods like using a word-processing program. Before then I had also begun building a list on ANN but it's user interface wasn't as friendly or easy to use as MAL. I had been using AniDB for quite some time to find info, but was not all that thrilled with the idea of installing some of their software that was basically a worm that looked for all the anime on your computer. I think they might have changed that but since but it was too late. My list had been slaved over on MAL by then. Toward the end of NTZ is when I discovered the group here on MAL called Critics & Connoisseurs. It quickly became a place where I could challenge myself with other great intelligent anime viewers with more than just a completely subjective method of discussing anime. I've learned a lot in that group and my writing has become stronger for having been a part of it. Recently, I've been putting my years of Netflix addiction and Japanese film viewing to use as an administrator for Cinema of Japan group here on MAL. Just in the few months that I've been active in the club, I've learned so much more about Japanese Cinema. It really has been a great avenue for finding great Asian film. I have one yes, really never put any work into it other than a poem. Like that you could create anonymous account names. Ultimately I enjoyed Ning a lot more and never really got into myspace. A mistake and a blessing that I'm still unsure if I should keep contributing to, or erase my account and sue them for invasion of privacy. The only reason I'm really on Facebook now is to keep in contact with my international friends that I've made over the years. But lately it really has just become a photobucket for me. I actually had the thought the other day while looking at the timeline that people might literally be creating computer avatars of themselves and all there life experiences, much like a picture biography. In those terms it really seemed to have a lot more potential, but at the same time an chill ran down my spine when I realized how it could be used against you someday if you were actually honest. That's just the thing. No one would be honest, so this image begins to look extremely fake and fraudulent. And for some reason it just reminded me of the I vs. Me psychology. Face book. It became a bit scary to think that zuckerberg might have actually had this in mind all along. Facebook really is just a reflection of ones ego. It makes me dislike more and more. There is more I'm sure including such places as Boxtorrents/BakaBt and the Internet Relay Chat on the Rizon network that I started around the same time as NTZ in 2008 lets say but I'll leave some of this info untold for now. However if you ever really want to talk with me, IRC and Skype would probably be the two forms of technology I use. Can't believe I just typed all this. LoL Hope you enjoyed reading some of my internet evolution. I'm curious to read others too. Please forgive for typos right now. I will eventually clean them all out. I am a person who strongly practices the use of revision. Cheerio for now. :) |
Orion1Jan 4, 2013 2:25 AM
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