What do you do when your 8 year old cousin emails you? Obviously you reply, but, what do you say? They’re 8. I don’t exactly want to talk about how GCSEs are hell, my recent drinking escapades, or even discuss favourite TV shows or bands with them. They’re half my age. Half…oh my gosh, they’re half my age. I feel old.
Anyway, so that’s going to be a new experience for me. Emailing an 8 year old.
But don’t you think that’s kinda strange? I mean, I got my first email account when I was 11. 8’s kinda young, and is it really that safe for them to have one? Next thing you know I’ll have them adding me on Facebook or MySpace. Or they’ll be selling their old toys on eBay, uploading videos of themselves singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on YouTube, or even…starting a blog. I don’t know, young kids and the internet scare me. Maybe it’s just me being an old fart. I even got weirded out when I saw said cousin playing on a Nintendo DS. They’re just little kids, they’re supposed to be running around in the garden, playing with soft toys and drinking apple juice. Their minds shouldn’t start getting corrupted until they’re at least 10 or something.
LiveJournal has taken the monetizing road. It no longer offers the free accout option when new users sign up. What is up with that? Don’t they know it’s possibly the stupidest thing to do? I get that they want to make money, but seriously, I can see their rate of users signing up come plummeting down.
Don’t worry though, you’re not missing out on much. There are plenty of alternative blogging websites such as WordPress or Blogger that are just as good, if not even better then LJ. What sets LJ aside from the others though, was its ‘communities’ – I guess you could say they’re the equivalent of having groups on social networking sites. But no worries there, unless you’re a comment-type person, you can still look at them without an account as far as I know – or back when I didn’t have an account. Other then that, there’s not much else, layout could do with some improvement, navigation is fairly decent and compared to its competitive partners, well, it doesn’t really compare. Those of you who have already signed up under a free account will remained untouched, and nothing exciting will happen, so they’re not going to force you to pay any time soon (unless they have another evil plan coming soon to cinemas near you).
You remember in my last post about how I was saying my room was excruciatingly, unbelievably, something-other-ly freezing? Well, now I have a cold. I wasn’t kidding around y’all.
Any of you guys like/heard of Digg? There’s a sort of music equivalent to that called thesixtyone. It’s a place to discover new independent musicians, and what happens is, is that you ‘bump’ musicians’ songs that you like and the songs that have the highest ‘bumps’ end up on the homepage. There’s a point system that fits in there somewhere, but…that’s that. I haven’t had the chance to fully check out the music on there, so I don’t know if it’s actually any good. It just sounded like a nice and good idea. But if you like music and listening to bands that people have never heard of, then you might as well check it out if you’re bored.
Anyhoo, I need to go. Need to buy food to make lunch, buy chocolate to…eat. Have a good day, try something new, whether it be food or sky-diving or emailing your 8 year old cousin, and have a go at making a rubber band ball – you know you’ve always wanted to.
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