Posted by: ratobhaley December 18, 2007
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There is other side of the coin too.
No matter how much we make fun of people who love to have their photos taken, at the end of the day we love looking at photos. Look at one of the most popular Nepali site cybersansar.com. The only reason it's popular is because of the model photos. Look at ramjham.com and see the number of hits on photos. That site has nothing but photos and there are few thousand people looking at god knows how many photos every day.
I guess there is a reason why digital cameras are popular and that is because the general population loves to see pictures. Now that there are hundreds of public sites to share picture albums such as hi5, myspace, facebook, etc, there is more reason for people to take pictures. The more their profiles get viewed the more the general user feels empowered. My sad entry into the social networking scene ended when my profile received 57 views in 6 months. Some of the friends request I sent didn't even get accepted. One of my cousin sisters has received over 2 thousand views in as little as three months. This confirms the fact that males are discriminated against in the world of social networking. I am guilty of this too. When I have absolutely nothing to do. I sometimes log into my hi5 and check out my ever expanding network of friends. The number of my friends remain constant at 7 but it's a nice feeling to know that my network is constantly increasing. I feel a sense of popularity. It never ceases to amaze me how many hot girls are in these social networking sites. One could waste a lot of time just browsing through the network of friends and checking out some hotties.
I was so happy few days back to see that my profile got viewed by this arab girl who was stunningly hot. I had butterflies flying in my stomach. I even held my breath when i clicked on her photo to go to her profile. She had few more photos and I was filled with romantic notion of dating a hot arab chic. I didn't care whether she had operations to restore her virginity or not. But my short day dream came crashing when the profile description read "I have stopped updating my profile, click here to vising my website" - which when I clicked ended up being some semi-porn site - it looked semi porn I didn't have the enthusiasm to find out if it was fully porn. Damn spammers. These damn spammers get into everything. I even got spammed from my well intended matrimonial entry in sajha. Ms. Bertrice Okorie from Nigeria wrote her family fortune was stuck in the bank account held by her expired father who used to work for Tsa Tsu Ngong who was the Prime minister for 15 years before being deposed by Umaru Yar'adua. She asked me to be her savior and help her transfer 35 million US dollars to my bank account. All my correspondence was to contain the reference number (VE/S/09/99). How organized a woman she must be? She'll have all my apartment in order when she gets here I thought. I thanked my stars at my luck. I've been working all my life to hit that million dollar mark but my bank account had always fallen behind by two measly zeros. But finally my dream was coming true. Further communication with Bertrice revealed she needed me to send her all my personal details including bank account as well as a deposit of initial $200 as a sign of goodwill and to cover the cost of the final whopping 35 million dollar deposit. After few coordial exchanges of emails, I decided I was tired of yanking her chain so I went on to delete my matrimonial profile. Such a stupid move, I mean trying to be friendly with a damn spammer.
Talking of stupid, two actors in Angola got shot recently by the police. The ill-fated actors were acting their part in a movie where they were supposed to be robbers. Unfortunately for them, couple of real angolian policemen saw them and shot them point blank thinking they were real robbers. I'm having trouble deciding whether the movie director was stupid or the policemen.
Loving the extended holiday vacation. Have a good one folks.
No matter how much we make fun of people who love to have their photos taken, at the end of the day we love looking at photos. Look at one of the most popular Nepali site cybersansar.com. The only reason it's popular is because of the model photos. Look at ramjham.com and see the number of hits on photos. That site has nothing but photos and there are few thousand people looking at god knows how many photos every day.
I guess there is a reason why digital cameras are popular and that is because the general population loves to see pictures. Now that there are hundreds of public sites to share picture albums such as hi5, myspace, facebook, etc, there is more reason for people to take pictures. The more their profiles get viewed the more the general user feels empowered. My sad entry into the social networking scene ended when my profile received 57 views in 6 months. Some of the friends request I sent didn't even get accepted. One of my cousin sisters has received over 2 thousand views in as little as three months. This confirms the fact that males are discriminated against in the world of social networking. I am guilty of this too. When I have absolutely nothing to do. I sometimes log into my hi5 and check out my ever expanding network of friends. The number of my friends remain constant at 7 but it's a nice feeling to know that my network is constantly increasing. I feel a sense of popularity. It never ceases to amaze me how many hot girls are in these social networking sites. One could waste a lot of time just browsing through the network of friends and checking out some hotties.
I was so happy few days back to see that my profile got viewed by this arab girl who was stunningly hot. I had butterflies flying in my stomach. I even held my breath when i clicked on her photo to go to her profile. She had few more photos and I was filled with romantic notion of dating a hot arab chic. I didn't care whether she had operations to restore her virginity or not. But my short day dream came crashing when the profile description read "I have stopped updating my profile, click here to vising my website" - which when I clicked ended up being some semi-porn site - it looked semi porn I didn't have the enthusiasm to find out if it was fully porn. Damn spammers. These damn spammers get into everything. I even got spammed from my well intended matrimonial entry in sajha. Ms. Bertrice Okorie from Nigeria wrote her family fortune was stuck in the bank account held by her expired father who used to work for Tsa Tsu Ngong who was the Prime minister for 15 years before being deposed by Umaru Yar'adua. She asked me to be her savior and help her transfer 35 million US dollars to my bank account. All my correspondence was to contain the reference number (VE/S/09/99). How organized a woman she must be? She'll have all my apartment in order when she gets here I thought. I thanked my stars at my luck. I've been working all my life to hit that million dollar mark but my bank account had always fallen behind by two measly zeros. But finally my dream was coming true. Further communication with Bertrice revealed she needed me to send her all my personal details including bank account as well as a deposit of initial $200 as a sign of goodwill and to cover the cost of the final whopping 35 million dollar deposit. After few coordial exchanges of emails, I decided I was tired of yanking her chain so I went on to delete my matrimonial profile. Such a stupid move, I mean trying to be friendly with a damn spammer.
Talking of stupid, two actors in Angola got shot recently by the police. The ill-fated actors were acting their part in a movie where they were supposed to be robbers. Unfortunately for them, couple of real angolian policemen saw them and shot them point blank thinking they were real robbers. I'm having trouble deciding whether the movie director was stupid or the policemen.
Loving the extended holiday vacation. Have a good one folks.