I went on a blog search.

Not just on TakingITGlobal, but everywhere else. MySpace, Diggit, and anywhere else that popped up when I put 'blog' into the search engine. I searched for the most popular ones. This is what I found.

The most popular blogs were the ones who had a pet hate/many pet hates. They could expand on these hates almost endlessly, they could reference them, create metaphors AND similies out of them, make stories of huge length and even get human AND animal examples of these hates. Sometimes these pet hates would consist of people (George Bush popped up quite a bit), or things (I particularly liked one that focused on grammar), sometimes it was behavior ('Why Men Are Stupid', 'How To Be The Worst Girlfriend') , but in general, the most popular blogs all talked about something they hated.

Then I wondered 'why?'.

Then I realised 'why?'. People read blogs about hated things because a)they agree and don't have the courage to speak out themselves and this is like a secret release for them, b)they enjoy getting worked up about this imbecile that thinks they know everything when really they're just opinionated gits that are only doing this for attention, c)they're actually interested in what other people in the world think and even thought these might be a bit of an extreme example there must be some truth in there and d)they think that they're funny.

I must admit, I'm in d). There's something about someone trying to enforce upon you the strength of their opinion by using references to Star Wars and the Killers. Unfortunetly my research is incomplete because I can't read any other language except English, so maybe in French, the references are to other things, like Moulin Rouge - the cartoon.

However, blogs are still a good way to get your voice heard, just it seems the most effective way to do it is to bring in the stuff you hate. Maybe its bad drivers, or the way people smile at you on the street. Anyway you do it, the longer you can go on about you're hate the better.

May Hate set your blog on the top 40 list...

Falaya
[blog walker extraordinaire]

"First impressions count"

That's what my parents say to me all the time.

"People don't like to think that they do, but they do."

So, I thought about it.

And its true. Thankfully though I don't make up my mind completely on my first impressions. If I did, half the friends I have today wouldn't be my friends. But still, if I do judge a little sometimes, I'm pretty sure everyone else does too.

What do they see?

I think about what I see. What I judge. Idiot, annoying, stupid, gay, retard, bogan, emo, skank, tart, hot, thick, smart, cheeky, clever, funny, homie, mean, geeky, nerd, gimp, loser, loner, cool, awesome and many more not so savoury comments.
So many words that I shove people under, like the words are great big neon signs outside a shop telling you whats inside. But the people aren't shops, one word can't sum up whats inside these people, so why do I shove them under them?

Maybe its so that I don't have to try. Try and get to know them, try to get them to know me, try to get them to like me, try to like them. Perhaps its pure laziness.

Sometimes though, you can't help but judge. There are those people in this world that you will just not get along with. The people that right from the start they grab your hair and shove it the way it wasn't supposed to go. Their gigantic feet trample all over your toes. Their very voice makes you feel like jumping on them and clawing their eyes out.
Sometimes these turn into lasting friendships. Often they do not.

I usually shove these sorts of people under a very unsavoury heading.

But, what about the people w/no sign above their head? I can't decide whether its worse to judge someone at face value straight away, or to class someone so unimportant that they don't even get a flicker of a light on a sign above their head? Maybe I have self esteem issues, but personally I would rather someone immediately hate me than to not even realise I existed. Probably if i was a spy thats exactly what I would like.

Thank you for reading my ramble.
Please exit to your right, and have a nice day.

Wow.
How exciting is this.
My very first blog. Lets treasure this moment...

[treasuring moment...]

[still treasuring moment...]

[this is a really long moment...]

[treasure...]

And we're done.

Now I'm not sure really what to write in this. Do I talk about my day? Do I talk about my past? Do I create an alter-ego similar to Beatrix Kiddo mixed w/ Spiderman on crack at a school ball, and write from their perspective? Do I talk about the future of the world? Or at least what I think is going to happen to the world in the future? Considering that this is a site to get 'youths' involved globally I'm pretty sure that's the one.

I have many theories on the future of our world, to tell them all would take a lifetime, and considering the fact that they change and contradict each other w/each passing day...I'll just start shall i?

Theory 1: The Ender's Game Future
Has anyone read Orson Scott Card's books? Ender's Game just so happens to be one of my all time favourite books. And in it, is what I believe is one of our possible futures. Many of the things are happening now, or on the verge-interactive debates on the internet, online newspapers that people can actually write for and get paid like a normal newspaper, overpopulation, the list goes on.

Theory 2: The Aztec Myth Future
The Aztecs believed that before their 'age' there had been 4 ages before them, where everything and everyone had been wiped out by a natural disaster, except for 1 man and 1 woman, who rebuilt the population again until the next destruction [very Adam and Eve] Now I believe at times that this could be a variation of our future. And who can blame me w/the recent natural disaster fest the world has been having, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes. What next? Simultaneus avalanches?

Theory 3: The Nothing Future
What if, in our future, nothing changes, at all. Like, I mean, what if we don't discover any planets that we can live on, we don't get attacked by aliens, we don't become overpopulated, we still create new technology - but no major super powers break, no Hitlers come along, we actually manage to get close to world peace, global warming stops being a factor because of new technology? What if in our future, it comes about, that we have nothing to worry about?

Theory 4: The Terrorist Future
Terrorism turns into an organisation that basically becomes a country - a super power one at that - and joins in on the Olympics and everything and gets into it all by terrorising countries. I'm thinking it would be called P.O.W.F.O.P [Protecting Our World From Over Population] or something just as impersonal.

And last, and the least [cough silliest cough]...

Theory 5: The Digital Future
We find out that we actually are in the matrix, and half of us rise up against the poor, discriminated robots, and the other half [mainly those that loved the matrix] remember just how sweet it was to be in a virtual reality and the only thing we ask of the robots in exchange for our heat, is to give us wings to fly with so we can play a mixture of rugby, football, appaloosa and Quidditch w/out the brooms.

Over and out [Direct quote from just about every movie/book/play/radio piece/record/entertainment thing involving a radio/walkie talkie] until next time.

Ellard