tragicallyhipuk

I think I'm starting to undertand how this online journal and 'friends' thing works (both here and MySpace).

You write a journal, and if people have noticed you they leave comments (unfortunately for me no one seems to have noticed me on here yet and on MySpace it's usually my friend Tris leaving a witty remark or some band wanting me to check out thier page which wouldn't interest me as I'm not into their kind of music - which is strange seeing as I like all kinds of music, just never by the bands on MySpace who leave comments - though the ones I've listed as friends rock... and I'm rambling now).

And so you go about leaving comments for strangers as if their friends, not that they really are (this is the bit I always struggled with, leaving a comment in the same way you txt a friend to say 'keep your chin up' or whatever, but this is for a stranger who you pretend is someone you know when in fact you don't know them at all - and it used to spook me a bit that I could be inviting myself into a group of friends where I'm not wantd, when infact everyones welcome as long as their friendly and act as if they are your friend).

And once you've been about a bit leaving comments, then people do notice you, and they can become a friend, but not a real friend (at least not yet) but one like Tom on MySpace. And then you can exchange comments, and maybe become real friends - although lets call that being 'mates' as some 'bonding' has taken place to make you more than just friends in the new cyber-sense of the word.

And the other thing that seems strange to me is the fact people post replies to comments from their page on the other persons page. So you read someones journal and then the following comments where everyones saying things like "yeah, cool tattoo" apart from one person who put "thanks for the kind words, my neice would certainly find it funny" and you think to yourself, what on earth does that have to do with a tattoo of a skull with a snake in it's eye holes... but you then realise the comment is a reply to another comment somewhere else on the site... oh this is all too confusing for me (I don't even use txt speak when texting, but then again I like the english language and try and use it as often as possible)

So if anyone reads this, Hello, why not say hello back and become a friend. I don't bite. I can be quite active on the comments front if I feel like it. And I don't have that many friends on here yet, with the lovely Sinope being the only 'friend' to have posted anything on my page.

So Hello friends, potential friends and any mates who have found me on here, please feel free to leave comments and tell me more about this mysterious world of journals, blogs, comments and friends.

"What'cha talkin' 'bout Willis?"