Hello hello hello hello helloooooo! Yes I thought I'd add another blog, it's dawning on me that a blog is much harder to get fans for what with there being so many blogs out there and it being mostly about ones self peoples interest are not always there, unless of course you talk about many things other then just your life, maybe someone reads something they like and tells their friends "Oh that's a good read." Lord knows. I mostly just post blogs for my friends to read while in hope that I'll get more views from several people one day all of a sudden.
However with the new feature on Blogger I have been able to see that I have been getting views from several places including Slovenia and Russia. Goodness knows why people from those places are interested in a 20 year old that gets childish items for Christmas who is a huge gamer and has a near-vendetta against Gaia Online for.
See to get something really going a person needs a catch, and not just a catch, several catches! Blogs, vlogs, Myspace, Twitter, websites, a paranormal investigating team (In mine and Dans case) and a popularity increase in many a forum and places. At least that's what I've seen and think. I can't just hope to get popular on a blogging site alone. So right now when I think of my blog I'm thinking, it's just fun to write and see how many people actually view it and for those to who do just to enjoy reading it.
As for wanting to be well known yes I'd very much love so, for my writing, for my style, and just in general. It's not a bad thing, if anything it's a good thing as long as you're not a huge egotistical maniac. Afterall, isn't a little recognition part of the fun for a blogger? Comments at the bottom of a bloggers blog is very much appreciated by a blogger as for when blogging it is an ambition. Sounds like Sims 3. SIMS BLOGGING! 'Nayfin got a comment on his blog +500 ambition points'.
In short: Real life and internet popularity can be difficult! Blogging is fun!
Crank calling!
I dunno what made me talk about popularity over the internet for. My original aspect was to talk about a recent crank call I received and how stupid some people who do it can be. The call came at 2:30am in the morning. It woke me and my boyfriend as we were sleeping, y'know, at a good time to do so at 2:30am. First time I missed it as I left it in my trouser pocket, then it went off again. So I picked up the phone, put it to my ear and then "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" followed by an instant pressing of the hangup button, and the act of me turning my mobile off. During the morning I had a message on the answering machine which I could only describe as some kind of Satanic subliminal messages involving death metal.
So I'm thinking whoever it is obviously dislikes me and wanted to scare me after probably having consumed several tankards of alcohol - that or a wrong number. Now this first reminded me of a person I shall label as John Hog (So as not to say the persons real name, and yes the name is fitting). John Hog is the type of person who thinks calling Person A when he is taking a shit and ringing Person B to ask him if if his girlfriend Person C is there are the funniest forms of crank calling ever. So I don't think it is John Hog.
Now John Hog has a brother who was in the closet about being gay and was interested in meeting me ages back. Except he was so deep in the closet that the monsters that used to hide in there are now unemployed (Sorry closet monster!) It was about the time that he started avoiding me that I started getting weird crank calls, but at the same time I was being bullied by chavs in school. So it could well be him for some reason, or just a chav who somehow got my number. It could well be a friend of mine who just got so drunk he didn't even know he made the call.
Whoever the person is all the same, screaming down the phone is not a funny crank call and if you think it is then you're probably thinking you're a magnet for jokes the amount of times people scream at how stupid you are.
There's a good crank call and a bad crank call. Bad crank calls often involve acts of simply just not being funny, or trying to scare the person you're calling. You're a bit of a prick if you think calling someone to scare the shit out of them is funny, especially if you're pranking random numbers and happen to pick up an old ladies number. Actually I just found out the difference between a prank and a crank call.
Prank Call = Funny, Light-hearted, Day Making jokes.
Crank Call = Usually unfunny and often hostile and stupid.
Now I've made my fair share of prank calls, usually towards places where it's their job to answer the telephone, that way they still get paid, it's not technically going out of their way, and sometimes it can be funny not only to you and your friends but sometimes the receiver of the call; in other words like the lady who picked up the prank call from Luke that one time at my place. (Thanks for the laughs Pizza Hut call receiving lady)
In short: Prank calls are awesome if it's done right and to the right person. Crank calls suck wrinkly rhino balls.
Pessimism about 2011
I'll make this short. As much as I love all my friends, it does piss me off. "Oh today I broke a nail, 2011 is going to be the worst year ever." or "Me and my friend had a fight, 2011 is so shit." Sure most of my friends who are like this are teenagers and going through their shit sixteen moments (Or younger) and the other half actually have a reason to do so...kind of, I'm not getting into it.
Yes life can be tough, but how the hell can you think it's so bad you have to blame the WHOLE YEAR where only 18 days have passed so far. I mean talk about giving up too early. I mean things get bad but they also get better as well, unless you're Dan's fictional Unhappy Man. Plus since when did bad times have a schedule. "Ahh it's January, time for your life to become a living hell, but don't worry you have a good week in July but it fucks up soon after." Sometimes people make it sound that the bad things effect their lives in so many ways that they can't use their own free will to make things better. When life closes a door it opens a window (That's not a phrase or excuse to start doing criminal acts for when life gets you down)
In short: Cheer the fuck up and get off your fat ass and make life good and happy for you, don't just wait.
So there we have another blog done, I never cease to amaze myself about how much I type, I just won't stop. Which is probably a negative more then a positive but I think as my blogs go this was probably one of my shorter ones. Still hopefully it was an enjoyable read. Untill next time!
I know what you know about the angry people! or sad people rather, already my facebook is littered with people saying 2011 is gunna be the worse! Jeeeeez lighten up,
ReplyDeleteI'm lookin forward to 2011 myself!
Indeed Dan. I too am looking foward to it!
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with the "2011 is shit" people. Also! It's annoying me when I see people say things like "Just finished my cornflakes before they went soggy: 2011 is going to be MY year". Clearly not the cornflakes part, but the 'my year' part.
ReplyDeleteGood read, keep 'em coming!
Yeah I know what you mean by that. I've known myself to say it'll be "My year!" but what I mean is "I'm going to make it work." course I obviously recognise it's by my doing and not because of some amazing cornflakes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Dan!
That's 1000 ambition points right there!
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