Pinoy Wasteland

This Facebook Sabbatical made  me go back to my neglected online activities like blogging, twitting (or is it twitter-ing?), and so on. The reason behind the FB boycott is a long story.

My online life was never the same after college. Maybe because I did not have much of a social life, just always waiting for the next birthday so that I can find a reason to get drunk.

Like I was browsing through Pinoy Exchange, and I was thinking, they are annoying. I never considered myself (maybe a little) a good debater but recent arguments on my former favorite threads are insipid and lame. Where have all the great PExers gone? Maybe I outgrew it and heard most of the arguments.I was grossed out.

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We tried playing literati a few nights ago.

Pansin nyo napaka-chatty ko sa YM. Hehehe.

Anyway, it was fun. It’s like scrabble. Unfortunately, I lost.

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I always hear people these days go: Friendster, yuck! or Friendster Baduy!

For years, Friendster has been the number one social networking website in the country. Myspace was not able to topple it, Multiply threatened it. But Filipinos just love Friendster…. until now.

So enters Facebook. More interesting, interactive and user-friendly. It is uncluttered. It has apps that you can use personally and you can play games. You can catch up with people you know. Classmates from so long ago can track you down so easily.

Now Friendster is forgotten, almost to the point if disgust. Friendster, that was soooo last year. Duh.

When Myspace and Multiply came out, Friendter competed by allowing personalizing the themes. Made things cluttered but it did work. Now what they doesn’t work.

That is how easily people can discard a habit (even a lifestyle) for something trendier. Sure, we can go for the innovation but do we have to feel aghast? Why are we so engrossed by the number of people using something better and be disgusted by something new?

Like Twilight,I think this tells us something.

Something about human nature. Sure, it’s Friendster. It doesn’t really qualify as tangible. But it was a part of our life before.

Someday it may go to the ranks of  passe things in the Internet, the way how mIRC has been forgotten. But at least it’s still there.

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OK, sige wag seryosohin ang buhay!

Because my girlfriend has no Internet service at home, I got into the habit of opening her Facebook account (this is with her permission of course, di naman ako tulad ng iba dyan, I trust her). The Reason: Farmville.

I told myself that I will not get addicted to any of those apps after manakawan ako ng eggplants sa Barn Buddy na binura ko sa sarili kong account. But I am getting addicted. Level 10 na kami at andami naming pera! Yehey! I was really planning to make it look like a farm surrounded by a forest of trees (syempre mga fruit-bearing trees lang, gusto ko pa naman lagyan ng balete, weeping willow or cypress). She kinda likes it. Sabi nya organic farm kunwari ng mga small countryside farmers!

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I was not able to go to work Friday, 2 AM because of the rain. It’s not that I am lazy… it was scary! The raindrops sounded like coins falling down the roof only replaced by the strong winds bringing sounds of falling debris. Isipin nyo naman ang byahe ko from Antipolo to Ayala, madilim at sa payat kong ito baka dalhin ako ng hangin na parang saranggola

I mentioned  to my girlfriend that I am looking at books by Malcolm Gladwell from a comment I received recently. She knows the writer and talked about Blink. It’s funny that I have a geeky girlfriend, she knows almost all the writers I mention.Nag-download ako ng eBook, made me realize that my intuitive repulsion from a recent post is not as irrational as I thought it was.

Blogger’s block. Just look at these links.

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