Friendship is a complicated thing. Over the years I have gained, and lost, many friends. I have a fairly specific definition of what friendship is.
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Online behavior, hiding behind the keyboard
You know, one of my favorite pastimes is arguing with people over the intertubes. I’m not sure why but it’s always fun to verbally assault people when there is no risk or repercussion. I have to say though, that recently I feel this once fun pastime has taken a turn for the worst. I feel like almost everyone on the internet is a guy like this: I have spent a lot of time on message forums, IRC, online games, and where ever else you can chat with people online over the years. It seems though, that as the generation of kids after my generation is beginning to mature, absolute ignorance is beginning to run incredibly rampant online. It started out with innocent abbreviations, you know LOL, BRB, OMG, things like that, now online language has turned into a completely different animal…I am honestly not sure sometimes if the kids even […]
Why can’t I just be successful online?
Why?! Not for lack of trying thats for sure. For the past seven or eight years, I have tried time and time again to fulfill my life goal: Becoming so successful on the internet that I can quit my day job. This might sound unrealistic, but is it? How hard can it be to make enough to earn a living online? I’m not trying to become a millionaire, just maybe $80,000 would suffice. So why can’t I do it? I think I know. Long-term motivation. Let me go through a list of projects I have attempted and why they failed: WerkkreW Productions This was the original reason I bought werkkrew.com. It was a joint venture to support and promote local music. Essentially we were a miniature record label/record promotion company started when we were all about 16 years old. This company lasted about 4 years actually but it never did […]