Sunday, April 17, 2011

in the mood for a free movie and you have the patience to watch it in 10min. parts ??

This is the reason why Blockbuster ran out of business, Redbox can be blamed also. But YouTube makes so many videos readily available to anyone. I love YouTube. I don't remember the last time I rented or even purchased a DVD because people upload full movies onto YouTube (although you might watch a movie one day and then the next day the audio has been removed because YouTube saw the video was copyrighted). This video sharing site is awesome and immediately customizes itself for the user by displaying relevant videos on the side if the screen, making the website addicting and difficult to leave. Therefore, YouTube deserves a hug.

research project due tomorrow ? time for wiki !

Wikipedia has to be the most  addicting site after Facebook. Almost everyday, I fall under Wiki's powerful spell. I will be wanting info on something like an actor's bio, and then end up somewhere totally irrelevant to my original search. This is because throughout the article I found that was relevant to what I wanted, there are highlighted words that have become hyperlinked and its just so tempting to click. So I will start off with Paula Dean and end up at how 85% of Americans are obese and overweight. Ironically, you have to find back-up for what you've read on the site because there is a good chance someone submitted false info. Besides that, Wikipedia's got my top vote for  most distracting site.

From everyone's space to everyone's face.

Everyone and their mother and father should be able to relate to this one. Facebook has definitely taken over the competition for world domination against Disney. As for me, Facebook and I have a love/hate relationship. I've deactivated mine so many times. Even as I was working on this blog project, I keep scrolling through people's status updates and the humorous like pages. This networking site is so awesome, that a movie was made for it. Tom never got a movie, MySpace died. Sold its soul to Facebook (so maybe Mark really is the devil). Facebook may be a conspiracy, but who cares really? If this were proven to be a cult, we wouldn't oppose to it at all. Facebook is here to stay.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

tweet tweet tweet & i obviously love stalkers . so be sure to follow me.

I can't make an example of a personal experience with Twitter because I don't have one. But, I have been put under the impression that Twitter is a cult, because everyone who has one and finds out that I don't tells me I need to get one. But I truly know that having a Twitter is not going to improve my health at all. I've seen a Twitter before and it seems to be becoming as popular as Facebook. The purpose of Twitter is make SMS posts on your profile so that your followers can read whatever it is that you posted. I don't know much about what it means for a topic to be "trending". But I do know that Twitter is a very distracting site, because it is actually appearing in the media, for example on 106&Park there is always a trending topic of the day and for the entire show, on the bottom of the screen they show people's tweets. As if I care, I don't like little blue birds anyway.

From everyone's space to everyone's face.

Its sad but true, MySpace once controlled the globe and our lives. My MySpace was never perfect. I was constantly looking for html codes to customize my backgroud, border color, font size, page layout, hide the ads, and make sure the song on my profile played automatically when someone visited it. I have to admit that I spent majority of  middle school on MySpace, Tom had me in the palm of his hand. Glad he was proven to not be the devil (Mark Zuckerberg is still unknown). Although it has been many years, I'm sure we all can pinpoint a specific incident where we spent the whole day in the same seat numbing our butts on MySpace. If you didn't at least do that, then you commented on everyones profiles, pics, bulletin posts and filled out and reposted those lame surveys that took four thousand hours to complete.

Keep scrolling on this site, and you will FAIL

I assume this site is for the slower crowd, because its majority images and not words, unlike fml.com. Also createed in 2008, FAIL Blog or epicfail.com was launched and similar to how FML is operated. People visit the site and submit images of failures they happened to catch on film that would have gone unnoticed. Sometimes, I can't tell what the fail is, which results in me scanning the picture, and a good ten minutes goes by of me just staring at the computer screen until finally someone asks "Did you read that assignment the professor posted on blackboard?". Of course not, and continue trying to find the fail. I especially like the ones where the fail is circled in red or is surrounded by arrows. Those are always helpful. Then I can easily find the fail. WIN.

Lets spend four hrs reading about tragic events in a strangers day.

Created in 2008, FML, or F*** My Life became the hot spot for people to post their embarassing mishaps of the day. I am proud to say that I don't have these pathetic posts sent to my phone, but I'm not to proud to admit that I've had my phone taken away many times in high school because I was reading posts on fml.com and not solving quadratics. This blogging site is both hilarious and a time killer, but not if you visit it everyday because then you can only the posts that have been submitted since the last time you were on. This site became so frequently visited by both those who's lives sucked and those who read about these anonymous losers, that the posts were published in a book. Don't buy the book, the website is free. And funny. I have had to stay late after class numerous times because I needed my phone back after being caught in algebra guffawing about the idiot who sent a picture of his male-member to his boss by accident. FML.