didn't realise the Fster expiration date on my ass was showing

since this anonymous soul was kind enough to pity 30-year old me after diagnosing me with an addiction to friendster (hey dr. anonymous, what DID you get on your MCAT, btw?)  i wonder if they'd be charitable enough to also pity this guy. 

you see, alok is ALSO 30 (not to mention married + a new daddy)...and get this-- he ALSO wrote a post about Fster, even though he's too ooold to be on there.  you can find his pity-worthy piece over on his new group blog "Blunt Instrument".

what's that you say?  that blog sounds familiar?  'course it does.  "Blunt Instrument" was originally SJM's blog; now he's playing nice and sharing it with his two soulmates, alok and ankur.  (p.s. no word yet on what this means for ankur's typepad blog...that's a point of information for me and his other two readers.)

anyway, since our busybody doctor was so concerned about me, i thought i'd send them another patient to advise.  one caveat:  have some of your surgeon-friends at the ready.  i'm a hissing little kitten compared to Alok et al.  they'll flay you, salt you and THEN flame you. 

so have at it!  i can't WAIT.  bitch.

Comments

[hunter thompson]

Okay. Just because there are other 30 year old losers wasting their time with Friendster, it doesnt justify you. If you're going to stick up for yourself, tell us why it's worth your time - don't use reasoning such as, "Well, he's doing it, too! See?" It makes you look unintelligent, which you are not.

Secondly, why don't you just say what you really want to say: "I got a [insert number] on my MCAT's. I'm doing just fine." As if a good MCAT score makes it all good. Or what? Is it a gauge of something? Again, you're just making yourself feel better by justifying it with something irrelevant. The point is that your time on Friendster could be better spent.

You're an armchair warrior, Anna. At best. You go with the the flow. You have this forum to make yourself believe that you are expressing yourself creatively, when you are really just incorporating other peoples thoughts into your own, and posting it to get reassurance about your own insecure life.

You can do better. Say something. Be something. Who cares about the lol's and the way people write testimonials on Friendster? It's not even an amusing morning read.

With all the shit going on, THIS is what you write about?? And then you scoff because someone calls you a loser for the post?

When you write about a subject, it invariably reflects upon what you have been doing. Even if you only posted your top 5 movies of the year, you would contribute more to society and culture.

As an editor of a paper, I must say that you deserve some criticism. I was referred to your site in earnest, but it turned out to be no better than the casual spam that enters my mailbox at night.

And please, have respect for language and grammer. You should capitalize. To not do so is not "being you". It's a slap in the face to literature, language, and writers world-wide. It's a detriment to the English language and it's history.

ee cummings did not capitalize his name because he felt as though we are all part of one collective human population, and that the 'Ego' or the 'I' did not exist. After his wife's death, he wrote his name and poems as such, due to feelings of insignificance.

Perhaps you can incorporate that idea as your own basis for not caring enough to capitalize? Either that, or you just dont have the time or thought to do it, huh?

Ah, but alas, there is time to surf Friendster!

[A N N A]

anony-pussy
(i shan't sully hunter's good name like you did):

a bit of "constructive criticism" for YOU.

if you truly feel averse to something, indifference is the cruelest reaction you might express. your volumes of blathering nonsense speak...volumes. about YOU.

[andrea]

please, have respect for language and grammer
As soon as you have respect for spelling. Actually, Anna DOES have a healthy respect for grammar, thanks. I purposefully don't write comments in SMS-speak here due to her grammargoddessness, although I will do so elsewhere with impunity.

Have you viewed her other blog? just take the /diary off the end of this link and you'll be there. This one is all about her because... it's a DIARY! it is SUPPOSED to be all about her and the random thoughts that pop into her brain. This is for her friends and family to read, so they know what is going on in Anna-dom. It is not for you.

you are really just incorporating other peoples thoughts into your own, and posting it to get reassurance about your own insecure life
Please remember that calling someone out on their supposed bad traits is only exposing the things in you that you are deathly afraid of.

Wouldn't your time be better spent surfing Friendster than trying to make people feel bad?

[hunter thompson]

If you truly feel adverse (in opposition) to something shouldn't you speak up, Anna? Isn't that what YOU do?

Andrea - I understand what you are saying. And, of course, you are correct. It's her diary. But this is a part of her diary, too. A sub-section, if you will. And anyone who pleases can post opinions anonymously or otherwise.

This is my worth to you. Love it or leave it. I'm not here to flame anyone, just give a slightly idealistic, crude opinion, and rustle some feathers. Is that not how magazines also publish letters to the editor? This is a negative review. Not everything here has to be RAH-RAH ANNA! If so, there are plently of sites that edit, delete, require registeration, etc.

Is this site really just for family and friends to keep up on what Anna is doing? Why not privatize it then? Why put it up on the world wide web (of all places!) for the world to view? I dont think Anna is naive.

PS - Hunter Thompson absoltely loathed sites such as this.

[andrea, annoyed]

I'm not here to flame anyone
Yeah, you are. Please ask yourself why.

just give a slightly idealistic, crude opinion, and rustle some feathers. Is that not how magazines also publish letters to the editor? This is a negative review
It is a "review" that wasn't solicited. No one on here writes "rah rah anna, we love your site! keep it up!!!!11!" These comments are not for reviews. In comments, those of us this site is directed to converse with Anna, snark about Friendster, discuss the movies and music she posts about... you know, CONTENT. Until someone comes along and says "I hate you anna, you are stupid and insecure"... at which point posts degenerate into the troll-feeding that I am currently doing.

Additionally, magazine reviewers generally include their name and credentials. Letters to the editor must include a phone number or email address to be printed. Through your anonymity, you are only labelling yourself as one of lakhs of sad internet trolls.

Why do you believe that your unadulterated opinion - which was written rather hurtfully, I may add - is the antidote for the problems you perceive in Anna? That your wise words will make her see your light? There is a time and place for good, reasoned debate, but not about someone's LIFE, for crying out loud. You can't do anything but START with the logical fallacy of ad hominem attack, and it is therefore useless before it even begins. Sometimes, the phrase "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" actually applies. That is called "discretion." In cases where lives or ideals are not at stake, it is a good thing to practice.

Is this site really just for family and friends to keep up on what Anna is doing? Why not privatize it then? Why put it up on the world wide web (of all places!) for the world to view? I dont think Anna is naive.
Nice job of framing, but it would be a logistical pain in the ass to give that password out to the hundreds of family and friends Anna has across this country and internationally, especially those she doesn't always keep in touch with, but other family members do. Easier to tell someone a URL when you run into them at a wedding and inquire about Anna than to remember a URL, username and password.

PS - Hunter Thompson absoltely loathed sites such as this.
You could have at least waited until his family had time to mourn before appropriating his name. How disrespectful.

I will feed the trolls no further. Feel free to have the last word.

[not hunter]

I wasn't going to say anything when I first read this post, but I have to say..I agree w/ "Hunter Thompson". I had the exact same thoughts as Hunter when I read the post, but figured I would keep them to myself. Why am I airing my thoughts now, you ask?

Because I think Anna is such an amazing writer, that I don't even know her yet am compelled to come to her website often to see what she has written. Many of the times, it is brilliant. Sometimes, it is so hurtful and critical of others w/o reason. Who cares how people write their Fster testis? Everyone doesn't have the same style of writing. When Anna writes like that, she comes of as some faux elitist, like the "sonnigirl" she wrote about a while back.

Peace to all.

[Alok]

Why Anna, my first ever rendezvous to your infamous diary and what’s this I discover? An articulated reference to moi as a failure, by the Great Gonzo, himself?

Posthumously, no less! Wow. I *never* realized entering the brave new world of the blog just this week would so instantly gain me such notoriety.

Show thyself, Coward! Else your opinion remains of complete insignificance. To borrow your own words, “You can do better.”

And Anna, even though you’re 30 and waste your time per our Shadowy Authority here, it would be an honor if you became a Friendster of my first born.

- The “Other” 30 Year Old Loser

[anon]

trolls one and two
go away
don't come back
any other day.

thanks to "clueless asshats" like you two, she'll probably password her site-- something she was thisclose to doing last year. we BEGGED her not to, and that's why she left the door to her place open...for you to walk in and insult her.

anna, i'm sorry. you didn't deserve this shit disguised as "rational discussion". i'll remember whatever pw you come up with...

[anonpussy]

rah rah ANNA! yay anna!

[A N N A]

all:

anonpussy is "not hunter". same genuity IP addy. you know, the guy who supposedly praised my writing before questioning my "elitism"? he seemed to take a concerned, high-minded view of the situation, right before he bid us adieu via a "peace to all".

ha.

amazing how these people work. cloaking your nastiness in kind words doesn't work when you pull shit like this. why are you here? why even bother? do i need to pull a dooce and TURN COMMENTS OFF?

yes, i am considering that, or pw'ing the site. a few of my family members (who are my INTENDED audience) are not happy with this atmosphere. they are so unhappy, they are finally willing to not be lazy, and remember passwords, something they weren't willing to do last fall.

kali, amietoo, rose et al...i'm sorry if it comes to that.

[Salil Maniktahla]

"rah rah ANNA! yay anna!"

That's your real beef, isn't it, jerkoff? That people tend to rally around Anna, and you can't fathom *why*. Worse, you can't figure out why people don't rally around you. You had a bad day, and you go home all alone.

*sniff*

People flock to AJP for a variety of reasons. I'm going to guess that most of them do not apply to a bitter vindictive assclown like yourself. Step up, take the challenge. Come over to Blunt Instrument if you want to talk smack, instead of scrawling all over someone's goddamn diary, ya bleepin' wuss.

Go on, I dare you.

What's that? Too much? The idea of flames getting a little scary?

Yeah, that's what I goddamn thought.

[nothunteragain]

Okay, if your gripe this time is that I said something nice..and then I turned around and said "rah rah anna", that is simply because of the way everyone reacted to MY comment. I was trying to be decent about the way that I made my comments, unlike others.

I wasn't trying to be nasty, I was just being blunt like I would be with a friend. Perhaps that is the problem. People read your diary and feel like they "know" you...so they make comments that you wouldn't expect strangers to make.

[Maddox]

Hunter, not Hunter, anonypuss and every other dipshit:

"(Jealous women with)shriveled, dry vaginas everywhere salute you. Keep up the great work, you fascist cocks.

Anna, Get those bastards off your nuts."

[nothunter]

From "Maddox's" website:

Lazy soccer moms with shriveled, dry vaginas everywhere salute you.

Webmasters: take my lead by blocking websense from visiting your site. Get those bastards off your nuts.

Hmm, could your insults be any more original? how hard was it to copy and paste?

[A N N A]

if you "love" me, then enough with encouraging this negative, nasty atmosphere.

if you hate me, enough with instigating it.

just, enough.

enough, enough, enough.