Wow, ita, you're seriously Mondayed. Sorry.
don't really share my online life with my other friends
I guess that this is what I find interesting - it seems fairly easy for (some, certain, obviously not all) online-freinds to become face-space-friends, but it seems quite difficult to go the other way around, in a way.
Oh, and each face-space person who heard about b.org and actually got on the front page, at least, returned to me with questions about "what's that town with your name on it? What's the deal?". They never got far enough inside (other than the 3 specific friends, on the specific threads on my USA trip), so I never had to explain the whole verb thing. I have no idea how I would have done that.
I never had to explain the whole verb thing. I have no idea how I would have done that.
"I'm not really sure how it happened - I was so drunk that night - but the next morning, I woke up verbed."
"Tips for Men" from Dinosaur Comics:
Tip One: Grooming is important.
This means that you have to shower and if you always wake up with food on your face then you have to understand that you have a problem. We all have problems, but yours is that you go to sleep beside bowls of wet salad and then in your sleep, you tip over the bowl. You need to work on that. I don't know what to tell you.
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My parents will never get a link to my lj. Never, ever. God, no.
However, I did show my 80 year old dad how to use Amazon.com to find all those out of print books that he's been trying to get his hands on. And Dad was all, "Being forgetfull's great! By the time these get here I won't have any idea why some stranger in Iowa's sending me used books. It'll be like a really confusing Christmas. Also, don't bookmark this thing if you want to have any inheritance left."
Timelies. And Hippo Birdies to Plei. That is all.
And Dad was all, "Being forgetfull's great! By the time these get here I won't have any idea why some stranger in Iowa's sending me used books. It'll be like a really confusing Christmas. Also, don't bookmark this thing if you want to have any inheritance left."
Heh. My dad took to Amazon like a duck to water. He's dangerous with it.
This is my mother and ebay. Though she goes in spurts.
Most of my old friends just aren't very web-oriented. Nobody would be interested in spending 8 hours at day at b.org the way I do. Several read my LJ every couple of weeks, because it's a good way to keep in touch with what's up with me and the family and of course I never call or write, but they aren't interested/can't be arsed to start their own.
Current local acquaintances/friends don't get the LJ link, because there's too much about work/my neighborhood/etc.
My mother knows about b.org, because Nutty occasionally leaves herself logged in of mother's computer. This is bad, IMO. She MUST NOT learn about LJ. Oh, the filtering there'd be. Nobody else in my family cares or knows, as far as I know.
My parents know I have a lot of online friends, but they aren't interested enough to ask about a link. Which they wouldn't get anyway. Also, my mom just learned how to send email this year.
Meatspace friends, for the most part, have no idea how much, or where, I'm online, and I'd rather keep it that way. Also, knowing them, it's not something they'd be interested in doing.
My parents and grandparents know about my Invisible Friends: I'm not sure about the more extended bits of the family. I anticipate that my brother will eventually get a log-in here and/or on lj, but he's not there yet. My grandparents don't really Internet, and Mom and Dad raised me around theatre people, so they don't get to object (although I did explain about "It's not really like other places on the Internet. Everyone I've met after the first meeting had already met someone I'd met in person. And there are pictures! It's all verifyable! None of them are elderly Dutch Women! Oh, you guys really aren't that worried, are you?")
