Super Poke Me!
I’m lame. Let me just preface all the ridiculousness that will follow, with that. I know it, you’ll soon know it. I’m ok with it.
MySpace. When I first created an account there- I was addicted to it. I had tons of “friends”, put my shit out there for the world to see and was pretty shameless about it’s use. Thankfully, the novelty of that wore off and I stopped the abuse. Now my profile exists as a way to stay connected to friends that have moved away. Phone calls, texts and emails are all fine and dandy, but they don’t compare to being able to hop over to someone’s life in the form of photos, blog posts, bulletins, etc. Thanks to MySpace, I knew Ally was coming to town this weekend and- although she actually calls me when she’s here- I was able to plan accordingly. Not a big deal, but handy.
My profile is private, and only people I actually know outside of the Internet, have access to it. I log in every so often to look at photos (and steal them if I’m in them- ha!) and read random bulletins and blog posts. I’m over MySpace. I get in, I snoop, I get out. (I still fill out surveys though- but that’s a whole other Oprah show.)
Now, I have discovered Facebook. I think it’s been around longer than the other, but I don’t really know because it’s new to ME. And here’s where my lameness is about to be even more obvious: I am addicted to it. I have actively pressured my friends to join it, be my friend on it and learn to Super Poke.
Super Poke! Soooo stupid, yet soooo fun. Ya see… There is regular ol’ poking (getting a member’s attention) and then there is SUPER Pokin’. That let’s you do all kinds of hilarious virtual things to your friends. Stupid things, yes. But funny nonetheless. My gay boyfriend and I spent WAY too much time online yesterday Super Pokin’ each other:
I spanked him, he threw a chocolate cake at me. I trout slapped him and he sucker punched me. Then I bit him. I’ve also thrown sheep, sent flowers, hugged, drunk-dialed, body-slammed and used The Force on various friends. I’m honestly not sure what I’m actually addicted to- Facebook itself, or Super Pokin’. Lame. I know. I told you.
If you’re feeling silly (or lame)… go there and be free.
And there’s my randomness for the day.
Peace and social ridiculousness.
Tags: Facebook, fun, lame, MySpace, Super Poke
March 27th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
You are soooooooo lame, LOL! As am I. I am on Facebook also but my profile is a bit dusty. I get in, I snoop, I shudder at pictures of me, and I get out. I was using it as a method of keeping in touch with people because I am so bad at keeping in touch in real life, but it is quite unsurprising that I am horribly bad at keeping in touch electronically as well. But when I do, I usually Hug and that’s about it. All those other actions, I’m never sure what they mean, or if they carry some horrifyingly embarrassing significance of which I am unaware. So I stick to Hugs.
But Facebook is MUCH less annoying than MySpace. MySpace is for maladjusted kindergartners who run with scissors. Facebook is for angsty, pimply eighth-graders. Blogging is for adults.
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March 28th, 2008 at 7:44 am
I was on Facebook for a while but recently shut it down as it was filling up with soo many people claiming to be my friends coz they had seen my blog…
It’s fun and can have it’s uses but like all things, can sometimes get too much.
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March 28th, 2008 at 8:53 am
This was a hilarious post!!! I’m a newbie to all this stuff. I’ve never heard of Facebook??? I know of Myspace and actually have one - sort of. My husband put together one with him and I and honestly I never check in to it. Just when he’s on it and every once in awhile he’ll tell me that so ‘n’ so say’s “Hello!”. I love to read blogs though. I have to say I’m addicted. Hearing about you being “Lame” was cool to me ;o)
March 28th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Corrina I feel the same way you do about myspace. I was addicted, but I spent too much time there. anything more than 15 minutes was too much time. I wrote my last blog post there and said they will have to come over to my main blog, i can’t post both places. an old school friend found me through MS, so for that I’ll keep it up….just to chat with friends, but I’m free of worrying about trying to keep up with it. I won’t look at facebook for the fear of I might like it. I dont have time to like nothing else, well almost nothing.
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March 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I confess. I am a facebook addict as well. My family, friends, and online friends are all there. It’s tooooo much fun and I have to force myself to leave and do some real work…
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March 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’ve been afraid of Facebook—afraid of getting addicted (like you, I’m a former MySpace junkie). But this Super Poking you mention…sounds intriguing. What else have I got to do today?
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March 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I use MySpace basically how you describe, most of my friends there are people that I know in real life. I created a Facebook account a year or two ago but mainly to look around. I’m not friends with anyone from high school and don’t really care for them to know about my life now so it’s a little inhibiting for me (since they block off so much unless you contact people). But, when I read about how some people are so into Facebook and keep up with friends that way, I always think it’s cool.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Marvin - I TOLD you I was lame! LOL… Luckily, I have the attention span of a tse-tse fly so my addiction to Facebook is fading quickly.
Lady Banana - Yeah, I am keeping my friends to a strict “know you in real life” limit. Plus I don’t put a link to it here, nor a link to my blog on there.
Lisa Lisa - Hi again! Normally I would try to lure you into my social networking web, but it IS really kind of lame, so fight it! LOL Blogs are better for you anyway.
Natural - It’s nice to have MySpace as a means to keep in touch with old, far away friends, for sure. That’s the only reason I still have it. Facebook, however, is completely useless- yet there I am. lol
Dawn - Eeeeee! Yay! Another Facebook-a-holic! LOL… I’ve pretty much played with everything there is to play with, however- so I think I’ll be moving on soon. Which I’m sure will irritate the friends that I peer-pressured them all to join. HA!
JD - Be afraid! Be very afraid! And although I may be growing a little tired of it already… Super Pokin’ still has my attention!
Jaime - Hi there! Thanks for reading my blog.
Yeah, I joined Facebook once before, a couple of months ago, but I didn’t see anyone on it that I knew so I deleted my account after only a couple of days. Then my bff said she had one, so I signed up again and went nuts with it! LOL… All I needed was ONE friend! Now I have 10! Oooooo!
April 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I have a MySpace page that has a total value that equates to the spam it sends my email - advising me that “Sally-luvs-Seamen” wants to be added as a friend for the 12th time. I know better than to hope there’s a real Sally…damn it… So it ends op being more of an annoyance for me.
Then again, the ability to poke truly vivacious, fun loving beauties like Corrina has promise - if only in a rhetorical sense. Sigh. =)
MySpace has provided one perk for my blogs - which I’ll soon be utilizing far more frequently… And that is, the idiots who make it to The Vice often have MySpace pages - which emphasizes the one bad thing about MySpace. When someone screws up, they might as well be paraded down the city street nekkid…..
Wait. Did I say that was a bad thing?
April 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Oh Danny, how I love when you visit my little blog and leave fab comments like that.
If you ever find yourself on Facebook… we’ll Super Poke! But beware… I “trout slap” and “bite” with wild abandon.