serious question is serious.

[zarahjoyce]

First off: IT'S A BOY! I'm gonna have a nephew again :D :D :D My supposedly prophetic dreams have lied to me, sob.

ONTO THE QUESTION: I am a noob to social networking sites and mostly disinterested in them, which is why my Friendster and FB accounts had to be made for me by friends desperate that I get accounts and why they remain untouched for so long. kung nababasa mo to, sorry ka na lang at oo, tungkol sayo to. Now though, I keep hearing about Plurk and Tumblr, and I know some of you have accounts there and I was wondering, what are their advantages/disadvantages? Which is better? What should I actually expect if I get one? I am just really curious because it seems like everyone and their mother has one and, as usual, I am very late to the ~trend.

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[polina-slosvau.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! ♥ When is the baby due?

I did have a Plurk account, but playing in Amat basically put me off it completely so. >_< I am no help.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Sometime in July :D :D :D

Wait, why though? If you don't mind telling?

[polina-slosvau.livejournal.com]

:D

... well. I think the design of Plurk is a bit annoying. The timeline function feels clumsy to me as does the comment function. Apart from that, though, my dislike of Plurk probably has more to do with Amat than anything else.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

I visited a Plurk account and got promptly confused, to be honest. It resembling Twitter is a bit of a turnoff since I really don't see the sense in Twitter, but that's just me :\

Aww, I'm so sorry to hear that! I have read that a lot of RP-ers seem to have moved from LJ to Plurk and/or couldn't stop talking about their games and I was like ...how?

[polina-slosvau.livejournal.com]

I don't really see the point of Twitter either, so that makes two of us.

I'm probably just too wordy for Plurk. XD Shoutouts seem slightly useless to me.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. Most of my rl friends can't exactly explain what the appeal of Twitter is, so I remain wary of it :D

Another setback is the word count. Shortcuts are okay but some of them, I don't even know what they're supposed to be anymore.

[solarsparkle.livejournal.com]

I have never used Plurk or Tumblr, sorry. I think Plurk is supposed to be a little like Twitter?

Congratulations on the baby~

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ♥

I haven't either, and Twitter is like an extremely foreign thing and I still don't see the sense using :\

[solarsparkle.livejournal.com]

I don't like Twitter~ I don't see why people want to talk about every important thing on there instead of sending an email or talking normally or making a press announcement. But, Koike Teppei has a Twitter account now, maybe I should get one ...

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Koike Teppei?

[solarsparkle.livejournal.com]

He is a TV star in Japan, I think he's very cute! But, yes, not a lot of people I like are on Twitter. Even if you go to movie stars' Twitter or something they are all "This is what I had for breakfast LOLZ", so boring, just like everyone else's

Do people not use Twitter in the Philippines?

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

They do! A lot of local stars use it, which is always the source of gossip and whatnot. I agree, updates like that are annoying because most of the time I'm like, "And I should care why, again? :\"

[ice-cobalt.livejournal.com]

YAY ANOTHER NEPHEW! XD Congrats! :D

Plurk and tumblr are quite different--tumblr is more of another form of blogging service than anything else. Plurk is kind of like twitter in that the messages you can send are limited to 140 characters, so it's kinda like SMS, only anyone can see it, unless of course you have a private account. I've stopped using Plurk now since I don't find it as appealing as twitter. I use twitter to follow my friends and the news, and if you have a favorite author/celebrity/whoever, they most likely have their own twitter. :D

I've had all three (including twitter), so I'm quite familiar with them. I guess if Livejournal's a journal, tumblr is used more as a scrapbook. You can reblog something you've seen in another tumblr account with just a press of a button. It can get quite addicting at first since most tumblrs are used to spam post pretty pictures, but then the novelty of it wore off for me.

And is it weird that I have tried almost every social networking site there is but have NO Facebook account? XD

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Lol, I wouldn't have an FB account if one of my friends wasn't so horrified to find out I didn't and she was like, here, I made one for you! This is your password and ADD ME!' I found that funny :P

I actually do visit a few tumblr pages (like fuckyeahfriendscaps.tumblr.com) and yeah, it does resemble a scrapbook! Plurk is the one I'm completely unfamiliar with, sob.

[ice-cobalt.livejournal.com]

Lol, ALL my friends are horrified that I don't have a Facebook account up to now, much to my amusement. Even my dad has one, and he's always been skeptical about social networking sites. He didn't see what was so appealing about FB...then he saw some of his elementary and high school classmates and BAM he was sold. XD

Plurk is cute for a while, with its quirky timeline...but it gets old and clumsy really fast. Some people who haven't used Twitter don't see its appeal, but believe me, it's quite useful. It's not just for 'what are you doing' stuff, but for answering questions, following the news, stuff like that. Because the tweets are updated really fast, you get instant replies from people you know.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

My mom is really, really addicted to FB, actually. Like she checks it all the time. She has more friends than I do, lol! It's cool though, because some of her friends she hadn't heard from in 40 years or so, so it's understandable :D

Hmmm. Maybe one of these days I should try those, hehe :D

[atraphoenix.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

♥ Thank you!

[very-verydanger.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS ♥

III have no idea how tumblr works. But! I do have a plurk! Mostly I just follow other people there and make tremendously nerdy plurks about pirates/OOO rumors.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU MUCHLY ♥

Ahaha! I undoubtedly would do the same thing if I ever do get a plurk :P

[very-verydanger.livejournal.com]

I think the rule is that you are not allowed to know anything about how plurk works until long after you get one, because that's how it has gone down for EVERYONE I KNOW? I still have no idea wtf I am doing, so \o/

Except that I have the greatest name ever, oh yes.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

SOB, is this true? Kinda like my FB account, then! :P

WHAT IS IT NOW I AM CURIOUS.

...also, wtf? My download of ep 3 stopped and now I am stuck with an unfinished ep. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[very-verydanger.livejournal.com]

I GUESS SO? Except I can't work facebook either, but that is because mine is set to pirate ...





My display name might be Cptn★Marvelous WHAT NO THIS IS A TRAGEDY man I need to download 3 when I get home from work, I need me some PIRATES and Don being sworn at (by me, DAMMIT DON).

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

I ONLY HAVE LIKE UNTIL 14:31 OR SOMETHING WHAT IS THIS THE END OF THE EPISODE I SHALL NOT SEE IT. Sadness :( And it's so late to start a new download meh :(

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT WOULD BE YOUR DISPLAY NAME. Self, duh. :D :D