Camgirls and Avatarred and Feathered Chat Rooms; an examined life might be worth reading about, but...
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
The web is a place your mother would have warned you about if she had only known.
There is a new site in Latvia, put together by some graduate students from Maine. It is called Crippo and you trade organs and body parts for furniture or new organs and body parts.
Your avatar is designed from a personality test you have to take to join the site. The site computer then decides what you will look like and what will be wrong with you and which language you will speak.
If you don't like the language you are given, you can trade something for lessons in another language or another mouth that speaks another language. A basic feature of the site will be 'what you are really thinking' balloons.
On Crippo, the only moderation is the fact that you will lose a body part or a brain function if you are caught misbehaving.
Camgirls: like camboys, only more interesting. Females, in a room, doing relatively innocuous things, over and over and over and over again. Now, to be fair, some of them are pretty. Would have been without a computer or a cam. But now millions of bored idiots can email them about how pretty they are and ask them questions about their clothes. Camgirls: like girls before cams, only more 'more'.
Camgirl blogs: like camgirls without blogs, only more chatty about being chatty.
Camgirl wishlists: me, me, me, me, you will get this for me, won't you, to prove you like me? Me, me, me, me....
Webdesigners with webcams: I make a living sitting on my butt. I want to prove that I sit on my butt. I will show you me sitting on my butt. You have to sit on your butt to watch me sitting on my butt.
We are all buttheads.
Chatrooms: What more can I say? People stay at home to socialize with strangers in a truncated, stilted, vulgar, silly way. Unless they are talking to people they know in RL, in which case it is just plain stupid. Sitting at a computer chatting about nothing when they could be doing it at the mall or the local fast food hangout. One nice thing about it is that they are not on the roads....unless they are chatting on their cellphone while driving... Ick!
Web journals: I can type. Let me prove it. Now that you have seen me type, why are you still here? You like to look at what I type? Then here, look some more.
Archives: Why? Don't your parents have enough pictures of you? Or do you think a crime will be committed while you are on line?
Everything you write will disappear some day. Print it out now and amaze yourself with how boring you are. Twenty years ago you would not have done so much typing unless you were a secretary or a novel writer. And you might have written things that were so much more interesting...
There is a new site in Latvia, put together by some graduate students from Maine. It is called Crippo and you trade organs and body parts for furniture or new organs and body parts.
Your avatar is designed from a personality test you have to take to join the site. The site computer then decides what you will look like and what will be wrong with you and which language you will speak.
If you don't like the language you are given, you can trade something for lessons in another language or another mouth that speaks another language. A basic feature of the site will be 'what you are really thinking' balloons.
On Crippo, the only moderation is the fact that you will lose a body part or a brain function if you are caught misbehaving.
Camgirls: like camboys, only more interesting. Females, in a room, doing relatively innocuous things, over and over and over and over again. Now, to be fair, some of them are pretty. Would have been without a computer or a cam. But now millions of bored idiots can email them about how pretty they are and ask them questions about their clothes. Camgirls: like girls before cams, only more 'more'.
Camgirl blogs: like camgirls without blogs, only more chatty about being chatty.
Camgirl wishlists: me, me, me, me, you will get this for me, won't you, to prove you like me? Me, me, me, me....
Webdesigners with webcams: I make a living sitting on my butt. I want to prove that I sit on my butt. I will show you me sitting on my butt. You have to sit on your butt to watch me sitting on my butt.
We are all buttheads.
Chatrooms: What more can I say? People stay at home to socialize with strangers in a truncated, stilted, vulgar, silly way. Unless they are talking to people they know in RL, in which case it is just plain stupid. Sitting at a computer chatting about nothing when they could be doing it at the mall or the local fast food hangout. One nice thing about it is that they are not on the roads....unless they are chatting on their cellphone while driving... Ick!
Web journals: I can type. Let me prove it. Now that you have seen me type, why are you still here? You like to look at what I type? Then here, look some more.
Archives: Why? Don't your parents have enough pictures of you? Or do you think a crime will be committed while you are on line?
Everything you write will disappear some day. Print it out now and amaze yourself with how boring you are. Twenty years ago you would not have done so much typing unless you were a secretary or a novel writer. And you might have written things that were so much more interesting...
