I’ve just been talking to a friend about how they play games online to occupy their time and put off doing their uni work. But I’ve never been the sort to do this. Except maybe when I was 13 and always used to play on this:
Apparently though, I’ve missed out on a major part of my childhood by never playing Habbo Hotel?!
But after talking to my friend, I’m going to give it a go to help me procrastinate even more from doing uni work (even though my deadlines are next week). Any suggestions?
“Writing a blog post on the a commonly used hashtag because #YOLO.”
No, but seriously, #YOLO (you only live once for those people who are either old or live in a remote part of the world where there is no internet), is probably one of my favourite things about the internet.
Do you find it funny?
Decided to not double-knot my shoes today. #yolo
— 6TH GRADER (@6THGRADER) May 5, 2013
Saying the Dark Lord’s name. #YOLO
— Harry Potter™ (@ArryPottah) April 23, 2013
I’m a student, but I’m a lucky student who still lives at home where my parents pay for my TV licence – that’s not to say I don’t make use of online catch up TV – if I didn’t, I would spend my nights bored stiff.
I’m also lucky in the sense that my brother lets me use his Netflix subscription. I don’t know if id necessarily pay for Netflix myself – I’m not totally bought on the idea, or the idea of LoveFilm (not that I’ve ever gave it a try), but for me there’s only a limited amount of things that appeal to me on it – I think the deal breaker was when I realised it didn’t have The OC on it.
BUT – I’m 100% sold on the idea of BBC iplayer and all the others like that. I think having these catch up things online is the best thing to happen since sliced bread. Thanks to the genius invention I don’t have to cry over the episodes of Masterchef I’ve missed.
What are your views?
Following on from my last post about milking, it made me remember another fad which was all over the internet a couple of month ago, which hilariously, but tragically ruined some of my favourite songs.
I don’t think the share button on Facebook has ever been used as much. I couldn’t be on any form of social networking sites without seeing a video somewhere at the top of my feed.
Even though I did find it funny, I’m glad this fad is over and done with – I don’t think I can handle hearing another goat screech in the rest of my lifetime.
Have you all seen the craze ‘milking’?!
Well here’s a YouTube video showing you what it is:
It’s yet another internet craze which you can find all over the internet – just like planking. Started off buy a bunch of boys at Newcastle Uni – they go by a 4 pint of milk or whatever, stand in a random public place and pour it all over them. Pointless, ridiculous but quite funny.
There are an endless array of sites on the internet – literally about anything and everything. But I got told about this website off my friend called ‘Stumbleupon’- you narrow a search engine down to any particular topic or topics and press the ‘stumble’ button and it generates random websites to meet the criteria. Sound dull? Well that’s probably the way I’m describing it, but in all honesty its a good way to become an even better procrastinator – trust me!
To test it out I choose the categories ‘bizarre’ and ‘humorous’ – flicked through and found this page of ‘Nerdy Days Out’:
I also found a page wish was a list of ways to annoy people:
And by far the best page to help my procrastination was most definitely a site which tells you to draw a storyboard and gives you a narrative to follow… kept me from doing any essay writing for about 15 minutes:
Don’t know if ill ever get any work done with the infinite amount of sites on the internet I can flick through. HELP!
I don’t know about anybody else but when I’m bored (or trying to procrastinate from essay writing to be more precise), YouTube is my perfect answer. Like tonight, for example, I’ve sat for roughly the last 2 and a half hours looking for funny videos or watching music videos or in all honesty, any distraction in video form. You can even watch step by step tutorials to do the most pointless things (yeah, I actually do sometimes watch these).
I think everyone has their own favourite videos but here’s some of mine (feel free to comment on them to tell me if you like/dislike them) :
MAFIA BABIES (Brock’s Dub) – Its cute, and funny, what more can you want?!
SCARY CAR COMMERCIAL – the old-school scary car commercial!
SNEEZING PANDA – it’s just so adorable.
FRIDAY – REBECCA BLACK – I’ve got to admit, I have a soft spot for this – how can anybody hate such a ridiculous song/video?
If you like YouTube, you should check out this blog – http://viewtubeblog.wordpress.com – it pretty much covers the whole diversity it has to offer.
Ok, so its been a little while since I last blogged about my love affair with the internet, but it doesn’t mean I’ve not been using it. It just means I’ve had a busy Easter seeing friends, getting drunk and having fun (and working and other boring things like that). Basically though, I realised I’m like a bit of a needy girlfriend when it comes to using the internet – I’m never off it.
I’m constantly harassing it to find out what’s on at the cinema or to find out what time the bus is due so I can arrange my plans accordingly. Sometimes I even cry over it – but that’s only when I go on my online banking after a night out and realised how much I spent. I even came close to death when I online diagnosed myself with cancer when in fact it was just a common cold I had. But you get what I’m saying – I’ve pretty much spent the last few weeks relying on the internet. Imagine how much more strenuous my life would be if I had to go to the cinema in plenty time just so I know what time the screening is on. Or if I was hanging around at the bus stop for half an hour, waiting for the bus. Or if I actually had to make the trip to the doctors. IMAGINE. I don’t think I could anymore, not when I could just get my phone out and take 2 minutes to check these things.
Life is so much easier now. I’m pretty sure most of you would agree.
The internet is used for pretty much everything – to provide humour and poke fun at things being one of them. Internet memes have grown in popularity recently and now I see them all over my Facebook timeline and Twitter feed. It seems to me as if there is a meme for everything. I even unintentionally used one in my last post. Some are funny and some aren’t, but there are thousands of them about any single thing you could think about. We seem to live in a meme culture.
There is loads of different types of memes – here are a variation of ones from http://www.policymic.com/articles/11844/what-is-a-meme-and-what-are-the-50-most-popular-memes-online
There is also a meme Facebook page for practically every uni – here are a few of the ones uploads to Sunderland’s (http://www.facebook.com/sunderlandmemes)
(being from Newcastle I especially like this one)
What do you all think of memes? Like them? Or don’t find them funny at all?
Nearly everyone has an internet profile of some sort – even my Dad has a Facebook site. Social networks have exploded over the past few years and even I admit to jumping on the bandwagon. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that we are growing into an era where people seemingly care more about how their internet profiles represent them than how they represent themselves in their day to day, active lives.
But is this going to far? Well I hadn’t thought much of the negatives to having online profiles – until I watched Catfish – The T.V Show. This show totally shocked me. If no body has seen the show its about online relationships where the other person (pretty much always) turns out to be a fake. I’ve attached a clip just to highlight some of the extents people to go to for their fake persona to be believable. It’s crazy.
Video – Catfish: The TV Show | Season 1 | Episode 7 Exclusive – Catfish: The TV Show – Max….
Well anyway, this got me thinking – and I googled it, as I typically do for anything which I want to find out more about and read an article from the Guardian about a Facebook report which said “the company said 8.7% of its 955m global users were not real”. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/02/facebook-83m-profiles-bogus-fake?INTCMP=SRCH)
I’m astonished by this figure. Its almost scary – but thinking about it, this just highlights how easy it is now for people to get immersed by the internet and the various sites on it. Please say I’m not the only person who finds this all too alarming?!
Popular Internet Culture 