submission from tinytinee
The 30 Day Blogging Challenge
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WRITE A LETTER TO THESE PEOPLE :
Day 1 — A Best Friend
Day 2 — Your Crush
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you kissed
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror
Internet World and the Social Networking City
I feel obliged to say something on my new tumblr. I don’t have a reason for getting one, and I don’t have anything particularly interesting to say. I also have a sad lack of followers. I am involved in the internet culture though, which is probably why I have made a tumbler. Internet culture is curious thing. It is made up of lots of different subcultures, or, in my mind, internet cities. The City of Social Networking is made up of many different suburbs: Myspace was the first social networking site I got into in a big way. At least the first one that didn’t involve looking after pets and making guilds. It was during my high school years when everyone was angsty and emo. We took photos of ourselves and looked sad. I sent hundreds of long messages to my emo friend and anticipated his emo replies. Bebo was next. That was my first year at university. It was a new and exciting time. Bebo was all about spreading the love. I nearly had 1000 loves before bebo got lame and we all stopped using it. Some loves were special. Your first love, your one hundredth love, your lucky number love. And whenever the boy you were currently crushing on gave you love you would wonder if it meant something. It usually didn’t. Now, I use facebook. Facebook doesn’t have any surveys or loves or awesome layouts. Facebook is grown up - but the weird thing is that young people are using it too. It’s not just the people who ‘grew out’ of myspace and bebo, it’s just a new internet sub culture. Suddenly it has become acceptable to ‘chat’ instead of send mammoth messages to emo-myspace-boy, and we share pictures of holidays, friends and adventures instead of our pale, eye-lined faces. These various social networking sites are like different suburbs in Social Network City (in the internet world). But, in Internet World, people can flit between these suburbs at the click of a mouse and adapt very fast. This is different than the real world. In the real world, people grow up in a community and their culture and identity is at least partly determined by those surroundings. If that person moves away, they will take some of their culture with them. But on the internet, people can move between different cultures: emo on myspace one day, happy on facebook the next. No one these days would post a survey in a facebook note without considering the fact that they would be judged by many ‘friends’. It would look weird. But those same people would post 30 of them in a night on myspace. The cultural differences between the suburbs in Social Network City are obvious. The strange thing is, they are often made up of the same people. The internet has flipped things around: we don’t need to adapt to the community. We can just find a community that suits our present needs and moods. I am not sure where Tumblr will fit into all of this just yet. I suspect that it will be a place where I post pointless shit in an effort to get my mind of fourth year law. It is working out well. 
You look very gangsta in your photo. What gang do you affiliate with?
The awesomeness gang, obviously.
I like your theme. What is it called and where did you get it? I've been wanting one that has picture and details on the side.
I got it from the drop down list of themes. I changed the background colour and the font though.
