Plurk - Addictive Menace or Tedious Chore?
Tenshi is: trying to avoid the great Plurk web 2.0 MMORPG
by Tenshi Vielle
Have you tried Plurk? Don't. All the cool kids are on it,
and consequently, all the cool kids have forgotten any other life
they may have had before Plurk's conception. Dishes? They can wait,
someone just said they can't get into SL. I must react! Laundry?
Pfft. Someone just plurked a Youtube video. HA HA HA “I'm the
Juggernaut, Bitch!”
Don't get me wrong -- I love Plurk -- but it's eating my life, RL and SL. I don't do much else. In a digital world where logging in is becoming a chore, and I have RL memories to avoid (hello abandonment, goodbye trust) Plurk is the perfect solution. It's also made me some new friends - and showed me that some of the old friends I had aren't so hot after all.
Plurk reveals a side of people you may otherwise not know, and it's way better than Twitter because once you Plurk a comment, a drop down menu appears where you can view replies to your comment and comment once again in response.
It's obsessive, but at least the Plurk developers know how to fix the program's issues. I'll just leave THAT comment open-ended and allow you all to fill in the blanks.
Plurk up your life in an endless quest for online Karma
ITT Tenshi thinks she's one of the cool kids.
Also, forgetting to do dishes because of this type of faggotry makes you e-pathetic.
"What's this crusty shit on my plate mommy?"
"Why do my underpants still smell like my ass, mommy?"
"Cuz I'm too busy playing "Plurk" and being all e-popular, hanging around on the internets with other pathetic people without lives. LULZ. HAHA I just said a 4chan meme! What a proud day! Almost like when I was first potty-trained!"
Amazing! I can't believe that you publicly admit shit like this but then you act like you think you're all e-cool. Everybody knows that if you had any kind of social life whatsoever you'd be spending far less time on the internets, much less blogging about fucking fake clothes and plurk.
Man, am I glad I'm not you. Being e-cool in your world is like being king of the retards in mine. The other retards might respect you for it, but everyone else has to look away in order to avoid being embarrassed for you. It's like watching a 40 year old fat guy freak out and start crying in front of 300 people because someone hid his candy bars or something. Not cool. Not cool at all.
Posted by: lol | March 03, 2009 at 08:09 AM
"MMORPG" erm... Plurk is a social networking website, not a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. I don't see a thousand furries all running around on plurk. At least not yet.
Also, if your not stupid enough to follow 10,000 people, Plurk is enjoyable and manageable. I probably spend 10-30 minutes a day there and still feel caught up.
Posted by: Some Guy | March 03, 2009 at 08:47 AM
Plurk is an addiction, plurk is evil. hold on, new plurks to check out....
Posted by: plurkmaniac | March 03, 2009 at 09:46 AM
wow that looks kinda sad. you should try a place called www.4chan.com you would love it. tell them all your emo troubles over there, they like to help people like you. yes they will help you a lot. check it out. rawr. narf narf.
Posted by: longcat | March 03, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Go read Forster's "The Machine Stops" sometime:
http://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.html
It's also a free audiobook so you can Plurk while you learn about dependency.
I've too little time plotting world-conquest for social networking on top of SL...and I don't get this phenomenon..."Oh, I wiped my butt. Nice new brand of paper in the office restroom. Best tweet about it."
"Oh, little Debbie just plurked about her brand. Best reply."
Say...new social-networking tool for snark commentators! TOOT. Steal my idea and I'll eat your brain.
Waiter! Strong drink! NOW!
Posted by: Gutterpup, former CEO | March 03, 2009 at 01:32 PM
interesting how 'lol'
automatically assumes that
female over 18= mother with children
Posted by: Corona Anatine | March 03, 2009 at 02:22 PM
I guess I'm kickin' it old skool with my Second Life. Don't need to plurkin' or tweetin' 'round heyah! Holla back! LOL :P
Posted by: Darien Caldwell | March 03, 2009 at 03:55 PM
Myspace is for fags.
Facebook is for fags.
Twitter is for fags.
All social networking sites are for fags. They are an absolute cancer to the internet and humanity as a whole, conning idiots into thinking there are people who actually fucking care what colour their shit was that morning.
'I HAVE 400 FRIENDS ON E-FAGS DOT COM!'
'DON'T YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING POPULAR I AM ON THE INTERNET?'
Posted by: Alyx Stoklitsky | March 03, 2009 at 05:55 PM
I'd never have kids, because they'd be mouthy little bastards like lol.
And I'd be forced to kill them.
Posted by: childless by choice | March 03, 2009 at 05:55 PM
lol's just an angry kid cos he has a small penis.
It happens.
Posted by: Blue | March 03, 2009 at 09:37 PM
nah that can't be it, my penis is small too
Posted by: Nidol Slazar | March 04, 2009 at 02:45 AM
@Corona Anatine
Maybe because it's not an assumption and I know for a fact that this particular person has a kid. Don't take my word for it though, ask her. Fair enough?
@Blue
You get marks for originality. Not. Am I supposed to be offended because someone over the internet said I have a small penis? I'm absolutely enraged. I'm like so enraged that I might just go tell someone on the internets that they have a small penis, you know, because that's what enraged people apparently do on the internet or something.
Posted by: lol | March 04, 2009 at 10:33 AM
@childless by choice
I believe what you meant to say, is that you'd never have kids because you're too busy playing with Second Life and Plurk all day and thus, are unable to get laid. Sounds like Blue and you may have something in common there. You should try and hook up. Might hit it off.
Posted by: lol | March 04, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Alyx, it's obvious that you posted that because ..
.. you know, I was going to post some sort of snappy comeback, and I can think of so many.
But I'll think I'll let you go on this one. You've done yourself so much damage already, it would be like pouring mud over mud.
Posted by: Witness X | March 04, 2009 at 01:00 PM
@lol
Don't you mean "engorged" instead of "engraged"? LOL
Posted by: Ava Cartier | March 04, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Er...make that "enraged". Got a little excited by my funny, there...
Posted by: Ava Cartier | March 04, 2009 at 02:43 PM
"Got a little excited by my funny, there..."
If you can call it that. Enter the pathetic category with your friends.
Posted by: lol | March 04, 2009 at 02:51 PM
'it would be like pouring mud over mud.'
Doesn't that process eventually result in some of the most valuable chemical and mineral substances on the planet?
Posted by: Alyx Stoklitsky | March 05, 2009 at 07:23 AM
Conclusion:
Its just bloody annoying.
:END:
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Posted by: Gabriel Weinberg | March 17, 2009 at 01:40 AM