Site Pimping and Social Networking

Scientists say that 7% of the Internets is all about asshattery and dickery, while 3% is serious business. The remaining 90% is porn. I can attest to the porn number, and this blog more or less falls under the Asshattery & Dickery category. For the serious business side of the Internets, though, I have the perfect examples. I know this for I have firsthand accounts. Yes, ladies and gentlecreeps, all this bogus statistics bull is just an introduction to my pimping of the following:

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Now that I’m all pimped out, let me tell you about this woman:

She single-handedly convinced me to delete my accounts on several social networking sites. I mean, Jeezaz Cries, woman! Have you no shame?!

OK, I’m exaggerating. After the awesome (well, at least for me) announcement I made last week, I decided to update my relationship status in my social networking accounts. Because really, how else can I let my friends know about my love life? You can’t expect me to talk to them in person, right? Intimate talks between friends and family are sooo last decade.

So anyway, as I was about to change my status in Friendster, I realized I have a lot of social networking accounts. Half of them bring me in contact with psychos and weirdos. Newly Girlfriended And Now Elitist Baddie will have none of that! As a result, I deleted a few accounts.

Hi5 and Netlog both look cool, but they also feel so highschooly. And Tagged? It just feels crappy all over. So, yeah. Deleted 3 accounts. I managed to hold off on deleting my accounts in Yahoo! 360, Zooomr, and Wakoopa. I don’t have plans in maintaining them anytime soon, seeing that Yahoo! 360 will be reincarnated next year, and Wakoopa and Zooomr quite possibly may offer me some value in the future.

Here are my remaining accounts and a few comments on why I kept them:

• Facebook – Come on. Where else can you poke hot chicks without being slapped square in the face?
• Multiply – By far, this is still the most popular and useful social networking site out there. And by “useful”, I mean “you can upload all the crap you want to upload”.
• Friendster – I haven’t been logging into this service as often I used to, but I still see it as my main resource of connections. Meh.
• ComicSpace – Because I’m a geek. ‘Nuff said.
• Eskwela – I dunno. Maybe because it’s Pinoy? Also, they gave me a shirt.
• LinkedIn – All business here, kids. Move along.
• MySpace – As much as I loathe the horrid blinking backgrounds and appalling customized themes, I somehow wanted to keep my contacts here. Probably because they’re mostly hot chicks.

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What. That’s it.

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