Posts tagged ‘urban dictionary’
Yet another pointless update
I haven’t had time to post a real blog. The latest ones have sorta just been update/recap posts. This one is too. I don’t even have a DailyBooth picture to go with it. Anyway, I have ideas for a few blogs so maybe I’ll post them sometime this week. One will be a video blog, and the other will be just a blog. Before I make the vlog, though, I need UrbanDictionary to approve a word I just sent. haha.
Alright. It’s almost 10pm on a Sunday night. I should start working on my homework.
Later, reader.
My relationship with the internet
reyna… do some volunteer work, get a job, anything, but the the fuck off your computer! i’m concerned. anyone can stalk you. you’re a blogger and you’re obsessed. that’s lame… what about real physical contact..? you text a lot. why are you always on the internet? why do you go on blogtv? blah blah blah. fuck you all. hahahah. let me live my life.. even though i’m not doing much with it right now.
The Urban Word of the Day last Thursday was Social Notworking. Pretty good timing on their part, since I was just thinking this week about how much I got on social networking sites while I’m at school. I’m always tweeting during geography lectures, facebooking in my math class, and youtubing when I get bored elsewhere. (Yes, I managed to turn those site names into verbs). Regardless where I am, I always have some sort of interaction with the internet world. People have told me I’m on my computer way too much, and that I should be doing something better with my time. They ask why I have so many accounts on online websites. [As opposed to offline websites?] They tell me I have an addiction. Even in person, they say I talk like I’m on a computer. (Whatever that means). Even my mom asks why I’m always here. She should know the answer to that better than anyone, but I guess she doesn’t see it.
Why are you always on your computer, Reyna? I’m not sure. I don’t think it’s an addiction, though. It’s just something I got used to over time. I remember when I was around eight years old and would go into chat rooms, play online games on Pogo, and whatever else I did. I always liked the internet; it gave me something to do at home. I was never one to go out and play sports, or hang out with a big group of friends. Middle school was sort of the same way. Except I had things like drill team practice, after school classes, and little things to keep me busy and away from home. Away from a computer. Plus, my time online was limited to one hour per day. Regardless, I always enjoyed my time online back then too. It mostly consisted of me going into Pokémon RPG’s or chat rooms to talk about Harry Potter and whatever else I was into back then. Sometime in 8th grade, I got DSL and the amount of time I spent online was no longer limited. I began to spend more time on my computer since I was never much of a social person anyway. I never had money, and my parents would rarely let me go out. (Not that I’d get invited many places anyway.) I mean, I was barely allowed to go to the Tower Dance — my middle school version of the prom — that year. I eventually had enough time on my hands to learn the basics of web design and a little photoshopping. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, the internet had changed and reached out to pretty much everyone I knew thanks to a man named Tom Anderson. I was glad everyone was in on it nowadays, but also a little bothered because the internet always seemed to be my thing; not everyone else’s. Whenever I wasn’t busy with school, homework, or band practice I would usually be at my computer desk contacting people, working on layouts, or finding new little addictions here and there. Since I had joined marching band I had a lot less time to be online, but I saw that as a good thing. It gave me something to do and an excuse to use when I wanted my parents to let me go somewhere. Sometimes I wouldn’t even tell them I was going anywhere and they’d simply assume I was at rehearsal. It was great. Nonetheless, I still had enough time left on my hands to be considered a computer junkie. I got a little better at coding and photoshopping, but was still pretty much a newb at web design. (I still kinda am.) I even made a website for the percussion ensemble and all.
Today, I’m not too into web design and all that. For a long time, I wanted to major in computer science. Then I came to realize that it was a hobby more than anything. I didn’t really enjoy making websites for other people most of the time. It was such a drag. The whole internet thing was just something I liked doing for myself. I guess I grew up with my computer and the internet because I had nothing better to do sometimes. My computer was just always here. It just became sort of a daily routine to go on it as soon as I got finished eating dinner, or completed my homework. (more…)
