Over the many years of being on this site I've seen many friends log in and check out with a final "why I now hate SG" post. I sort of promised myself I'd never do that. After all, I've always had a sort of ambivalence towards this place and didn't really feel the need to force my disparaging opinions on anyone else. However, increasingly now, whenever I log in here, I wonder why I bothered.
Perhaps I'm just older and less in touch, or perhaps I don't get much out of this place because, lets face it, I don't put much in, but I have noticed a number of things.
1. My friends list gets smaller and smaller. This is because most of the people on it are inactive or grey. I don't really find the new (and when i say new I mean three year old) layout conducive towards meeting new people,
2. I don't blog enough, and even if I did there are precious few to read it.
3. The average SGer nowadays has so much less in common with me than they used to (partly because I have changed, partly because the demographic has changed).
4. If you're a hopeful or an SG and your last three or more blogs have been about what set(s) you are planning or shooting then you are a very boring person and need to rethink your life.
5. The people who run this site are not very nice.
6. I keep on getting friends requests from people who've never bothered to comment on my profile or, most likely, even bothered to read it. Most of these are hopefuls of course. Spamtastic.
7. Most sets nowadays are glossy... and boring.
8. Alternative is the new mainstream. When I was younger the alternative scene was the preserve of intelligent free thinking people who had something to say. Nowadays it's just another club to join, often because the cool kids won't let you join theirs. This is why so many SG's are spiteful bitches: now they've found their minor celebrity status they're going to milk it for all they can in order to make up for the years that they were the person being picked on, not the picker. How nice.
This place has turned in to an 'alternative' myspace with tits. The only reason I am here is because there are a precious few people I care about on here, and want to keep in touch with. They too are getting fewer and fewer, and a number are either on my facebook or i actually speak to in the real world. My reasons for staying are getting fewer and fewer.
It's not all bad though. I've made some great friends, and met some wonderful people. One person in particular (she knows who she is) I feel exceptionally lucky to have met and been in a relationship with. Despite the fact that it's no longer the case I'm happy to say we're still friends, which is fantastic- as fantastic as she is.
I've had a lot of fun and learned loads in the photography group. The UK politics group has had its moments as well, although it's far less active.
This isn't my goodbye speech. This is my "I'm not always sure why I'm here" speech. I'm not going anywhere just yet
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Perhaps I'm just older and less in touch, or perhaps I don't get much out of this place because, lets face it, I don't put much in, but I have noticed a number of things.
1. My friends list gets smaller and smaller. This is because most of the people on it are inactive or grey. I don't really find the new (and when i say new I mean three year old) layout conducive towards meeting new people,
2. I don't blog enough, and even if I did there are precious few to read it.
3. The average SGer nowadays has so much less in common with me than they used to (partly because I have changed, partly because the demographic has changed).
4. If you're a hopeful or an SG and your last three or more blogs have been about what set(s) you are planning or shooting then you are a very boring person and need to rethink your life.
5. The people who run this site are not very nice.
6. I keep on getting friends requests from people who've never bothered to comment on my profile or, most likely, even bothered to read it. Most of these are hopefuls of course. Spamtastic.
7. Most sets nowadays are glossy... and boring.
8. Alternative is the new mainstream. When I was younger the alternative scene was the preserve of intelligent free thinking people who had something to say. Nowadays it's just another club to join, often because the cool kids won't let you join theirs. This is why so many SG's are spiteful bitches: now they've found their minor celebrity status they're going to milk it for all they can in order to make up for the years that they were the person being picked on, not the picker. How nice.
This place has turned in to an 'alternative' myspace with tits. The only reason I am here is because there are a precious few people I care about on here, and want to keep in touch with. They too are getting fewer and fewer, and a number are either on my facebook or i actually speak to in the real world. My reasons for staying are getting fewer and fewer.
It's not all bad though. I've made some great friends, and met some wonderful people. One person in particular (she knows who she is) I feel exceptionally lucky to have met and been in a relationship with. Despite the fact that it's no longer the case I'm happy to say we're still friends, which is fantastic- as fantastic as she is.
I've had a lot of fun and learned loads in the photography group. The UK politics group has had its moments as well, although it's far less active.
This isn't my goodbye speech. This is my "I'm not always sure why I'm here" speech. I'm not going anywhere just yet
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Nah I can agree with pretty much everything you've written, I've heard a few people talk about number 5 but no one seems to elabrate why?
I enjoy this site though.. Admitedly I'm not the most social of people but the groups are good the interviews interesting and well tits are tits
I think people get fed up with sg and leave because They read to much into it and give it illusions of grandue, it is as you said pretty much a myspace with tits n not much more than that.. But whats wrong with myspace with tits ^^
I don't have any RL friends on sg yet.. either they want to but can't for one of a few reasons or they don't want to pay for what they think is just a porn site.
It makes it more interesting for me though.. I like reading about whats going on in peoples lives it's almost like a group of stories RL can be stranger than fiction no?
anywho hope you're well dude.
I really cannot believe it love, I was convinced I was gonna get a letter through the post saying they didn't think I was suitable. I'm one step closer but still have a loooooooooong way to go
Hope you're doing ok honey, you've been dead quiet again lately and I've been crap at keeping up with my SG friends xx