Tentatively getting to know Livejournal...
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For the past 20 minutes I've been poking around the FAQ page of LiveJournal. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I have a strange love/hate relationship with places like Facebook, Myspace and LiveJournal. On one hand it's kind of fun to think of sharing ideas with people from all over the world or at least, friends that you've made on the internet. You can meet people with similar interests and make friends.
Then again, the idea of people I don't know looking at me REALLY creeps me out.
On a different note I feel anxiety about how I represent myself. LOL! Seriously. I agonized over the background for my Myspace for a LONG time. What song should I use? Then I just give up and choose something happy. I decided to use Nikka Costa's song "Everybody's Got Their Something" and my background was an overwhelming collection of obnoxiously bright oranges. LOL! I haven't been to my Myspace page in probably over a year. I wonder if it's still there.
Facebook was a much better expirience. I quickly linked up to tons of people I went to college with and high school. You can even find celebrities on there! I found Aaron Ashmore but I would never add a celebrity. I don't really know them. I did add myself to his "are you a fan of..." page. The problem with Facebook is that ... there are some people I just don't want to spy on. You know? There's this one girl I know who is very happily domestic. She's a house wife and she's very busy with all sorts of things. She bought a new camera, and went out shooting for the first time, made an omlet for her stepson and blah blah blah ( her husband is a woodsman ) I love her but... I could look her up maybe once a month and be good. She's actually someone I know pretty well and like. But there are other more superficial aquaintances that... I REALLY don't want to see their christmas pictures.
That's not even the worst thing. People started sending me flowers and animals and tufts of grass. They started asking me of I were a detective or a ninja or a vampire. They started asking me to save the environment and the world... I was just... I mean I got millions of these things. I liked the flowers until they started sending me flowers with human faces. !!! I don't want flowers with human faces. A work collegue told me that all of this isn't even close to being worth panicking over. He told me to just go in and change the settings. I haven't yet. I've just avoided Facebook. I'll go back with some upbeat music when I have the energy.
But in the spirit of his advice I decided to look around the FAQ a bit. I'll do it a little bit every so often. It was fun. I added some more pictures. I get six total unless I add advertisements to my page. I don't want ads and I don't want to pay. So I'll just satisfy myself with my six icons. I named my page and my friends page. I didn't really want to link my page to any particular fandom because I'm kind of lukewarm about my biggest fandom - Smallville - at the moment. So I chose "The Rain Queen of Balobedu."
I was trying to think of a strong, inspirational, black woman. So naturally my thoughts turned to cartoons. LOL! I don't know what that says about me. But there's something about fantasy that takes you into a realm of infinite possibility. So I thought about Storm. I've never read any X-men comics but I would love to read about Storm. She's gorgeous. I fell for her while watching the cartoon. If I were going to cast her in a film, I would cast Iman - David Bowie's wife. Oh the glorius WOMANNESS of that woman.
So I googled Storm and on the wonderful Wikkipedia I learned about an area of South Africa that was traditionally ruled by the Rain Queen. I suppose she has magical control of the weather. The last Rain Queen died in 2005 and her daughter's father was a commoner so... it's not likely that they will crown her Rain Queen. Who knows what will become of the office. Anyway I decided to name my journal after the immortal Rain Queen of Marvel Comics. <3
For the past 20 minutes I've been poking around the FAQ page of LiveJournal. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I have a strange love/hate relationship with places like Facebook, Myspace and LiveJournal. On one hand it's kind of fun to think of sharing ideas with people from all over the world or at least, friends that you've made on the internet. You can meet people with similar interests and make friends.
Then again, the idea of people I don't know looking at me REALLY creeps me out.
On a different note I feel anxiety about how I represent myself. LOL! Seriously. I agonized over the background for my Myspace for a LONG time. What song should I use? Then I just give up and choose something happy. I decided to use Nikka Costa's song "Everybody's Got Their Something" and my background was an overwhelming collection of obnoxiously bright oranges. LOL! I haven't been to my Myspace page in probably over a year. I wonder if it's still there.
Facebook was a much better expirience. I quickly linked up to tons of people I went to college with and high school. You can even find celebrities on there! I found Aaron Ashmore but I would never add a celebrity. I don't really know them. I did add myself to his "are you a fan of..." page. The problem with Facebook is that ... there are some people I just don't want to spy on. You know? There's this one girl I know who is very happily domestic. She's a house wife and she's very busy with all sorts of things. She bought a new camera, and went out shooting for the first time, made an omlet for her stepson and blah blah blah ( her husband is a woodsman ) I love her but... I could look her up maybe once a month and be good. She's actually someone I know pretty well and like. But there are other more superficial aquaintances that... I REALLY don't want to see their christmas pictures.
That's not even the worst thing. People started sending me flowers and animals and tufts of grass. They started asking me of I were a detective or a ninja or a vampire. They started asking me to save the environment and the world... I was just... I mean I got millions of these things. I liked the flowers until they started sending me flowers with human faces. !!! I don't want flowers with human faces. A work collegue told me that all of this isn't even close to being worth panicking over. He told me to just go in and change the settings. I haven't yet. I've just avoided Facebook. I'll go back with some upbeat music when I have the energy.
But in the spirit of his advice I decided to look around the FAQ a bit. I'll do it a little bit every so often. It was fun. I added some more pictures. I get six total unless I add advertisements to my page. I don't want ads and I don't want to pay. So I'll just satisfy myself with my six icons. I named my page and my friends page. I didn't really want to link my page to any particular fandom because I'm kind of lukewarm about my biggest fandom - Smallville - at the moment. So I chose "The Rain Queen of Balobedu."
I was trying to think of a strong, inspirational, black woman. So naturally my thoughts turned to cartoons. LOL! I don't know what that says about me. But there's something about fantasy that takes you into a realm of infinite possibility. So I thought about Storm. I've never read any X-men comics but I would love to read about Storm. She's gorgeous. I fell for her while watching the cartoon. If I were going to cast her in a film, I would cast Iman - David Bowie's wife. Oh the glorius WOMANNESS of that woman.
So I googled Storm and on the wonderful Wikkipedia I learned about an area of South Africa that was traditionally ruled by the Rain Queen. I suppose she has magical control of the weather. The last Rain Queen died in 2005 and her daughter's father was a commoner so... it's not likely that they will crown her Rain Queen. Who knows what will become of the office. Anyway I decided to name my journal after the immortal Rain Queen of Marvel Comics. <3