Technical Difficulties

[vovat]

Yeah, I know I just posted recently, but I thought of a few more things I wanted to say.

Is it too much to ask that the Internet actually work the way it's supposed to? Just recently, I ended up posting the same comment eight or so times to revme's livejournal. And Hotmail, which had actually been working all right in the past few days, decided to reverse my messages again. It was easily fixed, but I don't know if the problem will happen again. I certainly wouldn't doubt it.

Speaking of the Internet, can anyone explain the appeal of Friendster and similar services? I mean, I'm on there, but all I've ever done was add people I already knew from elsewhere. Other people seem to love it, though, so I wonder if I'm missing something. As far as meeting people goes, it strikes me as much less effective than livejournal, or, for that matter, just an old-fashioned mailing list. At least in those places you can find out more about a person than what can be found in a brief list of interests and other people they know. Maybe the Friendster appeal is more of a collecting thing than an actually-meeting-people thing. I don't know.

By the way, I'm not a big fan of the fall. I'm usually kind of depressed around this time of year. The cold weather and shorter days probably have something to do with that. I didn't realize how cold it was going to be yesterday, and I ended up walking around Great Adventure in just a T-shirt and sweatshirt (on my upper regions, that is; I'm not implying that I wasn't wearing pants {g}), which wasn't very comfortable. Cold weather requires too much preparation just to go outside.

Comments

[tisok.livejournal.com]

haha, honestly, over the last few days, i've been using myspace way too much. for some reason, i've been getting like a billion friend requests. and it's just kind of interesting to look at who all these people are that want to be my friend. i'll probably grow tired of it soon, though.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know what you mean, though. I use Comcast. (Although, to be fair, it's actually been behaving pretty well lately. But, yeah. I have had my fair share of Billion-Comments/Not-going-through/etc.)

And, not really. I just joined Friendster because a friend of mine who's currently in Japan said it would be a good way to keep in touch. I am basically taking her word for it. (There's not, like, a client or anything, right? It's just the website? I'm not missing some Big Vital Portion or anything and then wondering why it's dumb? It's not, like, say, getting an ICQ number and then never installing a program, thinking it's like some sort of massive White Pages, right?) But I know folks who've met over Friendster, and some of that sort of stuff is vaguely neat from an outsider. Since I'm all "Oh, you're that person that our mutual friend was always talking about how cool you were!" and whatnot.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

The being-sad-in-fall thing could be Seasonal Affective Disorder.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's possible. I'm not sure what I could do about that, though.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

I think in some cases medication can help, and they also do something called light therapy.