Dinosaur talks Net

Many people say to gain sales, friends and more is to use the internet. "Just put out there what it is you do, and they will come." I find parts of the internet to be quite amusing as the people who are interested in what you do, do so from a common thread. I'm quite a dinosaur when it comes to certain parts of the "net"; and I certainly don't speak "text" well. Figuring that if one wishes to get a little attention, one needs to 'go out there, and do what you do' and hope to find someone (besides myself) who enjoys it as well. Get real lucky and perhaps one can score a job from it!

This article is about the life on the internet from the view point of a gullible dinosaur. They need to put 'levels' on some applications as they do with video games; then people who didn't get a degree in 'net speak' know what's going on. I rate 'My Space' at ages 10-60, (only because I have a 65 year old friend who "don't get how to use it". I will give 'Face Book' a rate of 3- 55; some things are simple to do but it confuses older 'pen and paper people' just a bit. 'Twitter' I give 5-45 because I'm nearly 43 and I don't really understand it, but I'm holding out to see what happens.

Each has a certain oddity about it. Twitter lets you follow who ever you like, no one has to follow you and you get "news stories" from the people you like (If you can find them). Both My Space and Face book ask, do you want to be friends with Joe Schmo before they get the updates or send you letters. The older friends I have say "I got an invitation to be friends with someone I don't know, so I didn't let them." Then complain that they don't have friends. My favorite overheard thing was, "Oh, you use Face book? Why didn't you add me?", as if all I do is sit down typing in friends and family to see if they exist on a particular network. I ask, "If you knew I used it because we have three mutual friends, why don't you add me?" Their response made me think, "Because I don't go looking people up on the internet."

This made me question again the "popularity issue", people are so popular in real life that they don't bother to look for friends? I pose as a question because, well; I'm not. I'm one of millions out there who HAVE to search for people to follow. Ok, having a 5000+ name doesn't help. (A name that is so common many people have it) So I began searching for celebrities. They seem to accept many fans as friends to keep their ticket prices up. Interesting enough many celebrities have people who wish they were them and thus if one looks they see over 50 people claiming to be 'Johnny Depp' per page with many entries claiming to be "the real Johnny Depp" for example (which incidentally has twenty of those). Then, if you 'follow' them; they get upset in a short while and delete the account because it reminds them how unpopular they really are comparatively.

I posted on all my Net sights a question and the Fake Johnny #456 (randomly picked number ) posed the same, and I saw the difference in popularity immediately. So later I did another (not wanting this person to do it) I only asked for a comment on my act. I gave it a week, got zero responses and got angry. (hence this blog) Fake Johnny #456 deleted his account so I am guessing he got sick of the 2000+ fans always eager to respond to him.

I posted a series of self made jokes and as a result got ads. Here's a paraphrase of one. I wrote, "Looked at the back of the furnace filter to see it will save me from car emissions, when did I start living in a garage?" Twitter then says I have a new follower who writes to me personally, "Need good quality furnace filters? We have the best prices." Didn't they see, Clearly I have a good furnace filter.

So if people seem more depressed than usual, it may be because of the internet. I'm a fair musician, creative artist and clearly no good on the internet.