Love for Reddit

I'm dedicating this next entry on a community site called Reddit. It's a bit hard to describe, but essentially it is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page. Just browse the site it's very simple.

In this day and age, where time is limited, people have far shorter attention spans. We want that instant gratification of entertainment. This sites allows you to keep up to date with current internet trends, such as memes, news, and generally funny or interesting content. Knowing that all the decent content is already being voted high for everyone to see, whereas all the boring bad content would be voted down. It's a fantastic system, and due to the size of the site there are many subreddits for specific themes, topics, genres.

The most popular sub reddits are Pics, Funny, Politics, Gaming, World News & Ask Reddit. I like them all but I especially like AskReddit. For me Ask Reddit provides soo many interesting personal stories, and can provide many interesting facts I never knew. For instance one particular thread was most interesting, yet quite depressing. Someone asked the community 'what is your secret that would ruin your life if it came out?' It made me realise how much pain some people are going through, withholding certain information. For your perusal: Askreddit thread

What's great is that in one comment you'll read the most depressing, sad story, and then in next minute you'll read a comment and laugh about it. The community is great in that regard.

Sometimes obscure questions asks can lead into great comments, providing great stories. Like this one: Today you...Tomorrow me

And times when some answers provide some truly sad moments I geta bit teary eyed:
Moving comment (In fact, just read the whole thread there are still many moving/tear jerk comments!)

I mentioned in my previous entries about a subreddit called Seddit, which the community is based upon helping each other seduce one another. I find that this is also a very interesting read now and again too. Reading other people's experience in failed/successful attempts at wooing the other sex is quite compelling. The community behind it and the slang that is used, provides insight of a culture that can has developed on just getting with someone.

/Athiesm/ is an interesting forum for those curious enough to question their faith. I shamefully laugh on some of the content there, as there seems to be an elitist, superiority circle jerking there, that can be down right rude to fundamentalists/theists etc. However there can be some thought provoking quotes, content that is interesting to learn from. I mean I learned a lot from this one page than I ever did from Religious studies class back in school.

There are many sub reddits, in all shapes and sizes. There's a /Nosleep/ reddit page for horror, scary stories. There are other subreddits I won't link that are adult related content, for those who are abit horny, to down right weird ones in which I would never go on. I mean the WTF subreddit can be crazy enough with some Not Safe For Life content, but /Spacedicks/ and /Gore/ and probably other specialised niche groups that exist, I would avoid.

I should mention other sites that are similar to Reddit. Well known internet communities sites such as 4Chan and to a lesser extent 9Gag, which is a more child friendly version. Regarding 4Chan, even though I like how anyone can post on there without the requirement of registering, providing anonymity & they have created a lot of the internet culture you see and here about now, and provides dark, edgy humour you wouldn't see anywhere else. I can't seem to be able to navigate on 4Chan very well as it's not that user friendly, and the content on there is pretty much anything goes. So I stick to reddit.

So go on Reddit, if you're not on already. Great addictive site, when you are procastinating, and want some instant gratification.

Here we go again!

It's been awhile but I think it's time to hit my blog again. Mainly because I find it is very therapeutic to write about myself and just reflect. Also I have some time again now, that being I'm single again, and that work is a bit slow at the moment.
I can say that I've been very busy this past year and a half. So I think I'll slowly write and tell exactly what has happened in my life since then, as well as write about my current thoughts. I’m pretty much the happy go lucky type still, nothing that much has change, in fact, I feel like I’m back where I’ve started but with more experience and a more mature outlook in life. Yet I’m still immature when I can and want to be.

I’m not too sure where to start but maybe will talk a bit about everything for now and then go into more details later. For now I'll start with:

Girl troubles

It’s very hard to say, because I feel it’s like a very complicated issue in why we couldn’t work it out. I suppose I am still not sure exactly what went wrong with our relationship, but I can say that we tried. Even though in her eyes I probably didn’t try hard enough. I tend to agree with her to a degree, yet ultimately it felt that what I did was never truly enough to satisfy her needs, and she has many needs and deserves much better than I could give to her. She rode me hard (literally as well, ahem) which was unnecessary and arguably unreasonable. I was not able to reason with her and I feel that was the ultimate downfall. I was always the one to give in, but whenever I stood my ground we would have the worst possible fights. Should I have to be the one to be constantly be abused? Sigh, I‘ve not put her in a good light already, when in fact she can be the most lovely girl. She has problems and I can look past them, but she is not reasonable.

I suppose more later, details and more personal stories, hopefully a bit more positive.

More recently I went out on Friday night with a few friends because my mate just wanted to, and it was the first time I went out in quite a while for a proper drink session. Met a new girl and she seems quite nice, but I'm not interested. I swear players can easily pick up girls who are looking for a guy. I feel it can be quite easy sometimes, as all you have to do is show a lot of interest and treat them out and give them plenty of attention. Not saying all are like this, but there are plenty that are. I'm not the best looking guy, but when someone has a slight interest in you, you have to grab it by quickly or it'll slip away. I normally always let them slip away. The girl has to impress me as much as I have to impress her.

Of course she could just be very friendly and I’m being deluded, as per my blog, hehe. My friend says it’s all a numbers game, he’ll just print off a ton of business cards and just hand them out to random girls he sees on the street. Which is hilarious, I don't think he'll go through with it but I'd be interested in the results, purely for science. ;) 

First world problems at its finest. In this day and age living in a fast moving city in the age of the internet, it can be a strange time to try and find love. Internet dating seems to be the current trend, but I don't quite like the forced environment, I feel like nothing quite beats actually hooking up with people randomly. The trouble is meeting those specifics to create a random environment for a particular outcome to happen. No matter what, it’s really down to you controlling what you do, if you don’t get yourself out there, then you will not get anything. Go out there and make a fool of yourself in a bar/club, go to many social gatherings, join clubs, etc. It’s down to having fun though, regardless if it’s outside your comfort zone. I hear and see people moaning about being single, but normally it is themselves to blame. Make your own luck.

I’ve liken to a website called Reddit, which I will probably dedicate a blog entry all on its own. In particularly I’d like to point out a sub group, solely for sharing experiences in the art of seduction, or at least tips and experiences in trying to get with the other sex. They refer themselves as Seddit. It’s enlightening and very interesting.  It’s like they have create a new language for themselves when talking about how to woo the other side. The game is always being played, and it’s quite fascinating. Even if it's a bit crude and they're solely in it to get as many as they can. They do tell much truth.

In any case my point of view at the moment, is that I’m not going to make effort for now, I’m quite content with where I am with my life right now, amongst other things to sort out. Women can come later, or it can hit me in the face or not regardless how much older I'll be getting. Love as they say can come at any age.