This is a kind of blast from the past in this class’ material. I found this surprisingly extensive website, Muppet Wiki (logo is Kermit the Frog’s eye! Very clever…) The site is separated into 3 main muppet categories, “The Muppets”, “Sesame Street”, and “Fraggle Rock” as well as episode guides and Muppet news. There are over 22,000 pages on this Wiki as well as a “Random Puppet” button to randomly select a Muppet Wiki to share with you. At the top of the site, it says the page is sponsored by Wikia and next to that there is a button that says “Start a Wiki”. Of course, I clicked on it to see what the deal is. All that is required is a name, desired web address, category, language, and birth date. Bam. You have a Wiki. Couldn’t tell whether you have to pay for the Wiki or not, I’m sure it’s some deal like the social networking site creator we were shown in class, there’s a basic Wikia then an advanced version with more features for money.
Also, on a creepier note- the ads on the Wikia pages were all for things I’ve googled recently…
I clicked Random Muppet and got ol' Large Marvin Fraggle
"Large Marvin is the fattest Fraggle in Fraggle Rock, due to his love of snacking. He is a bit dimwitted, but is also athletic and a feared swimming opponent of Red Fraggle."
In the past year, two people I knew passed away and both of their Facebook pages were memorialized.
One of the two was a 20 year-old woman who I had only hung out with 2 or 3 times through a mutual friend when she passed away. As you know, I'm not a huge Facebook person so we hadn't yet become friends on Facebook. Her page was memorialized and since I wasn't friends with her, I couldn't search for her profile on Facebook. I wanted to look her up. See her pictures. See what people were writing to her. I wanted to appreciate a person I had enjoyed hanging out with, someone I could have become good friends with. I wanted to write something to her, let her know in some cyber phantom world that I regret us not meeting earlier. I feel like because of the way Facebook has decided to memorialize pages I'm cut out of that group.
The other person was a 20 year-old man who I had gone to elementary and middle school with but hadn't ever been extremely close to. His name was one I'll never forget, with a face to go along with it. He is someone I've grown up with although not someone I'd necessarily call a friend. We were friends on Facebook but when he passed I felt I was again, cut out of knowing the person as they were at 20 years-old. I couldn't see his interests, I couldn't see his groups, I couldn't see his photo albums. I could see the photos he was tagged in and his wall which was really nice because I was able to see what he had been up to since middle school. I was also able to write a message of thought and love to him and his family on his wall.
I understand there has to be guidelines on what happens with a memorialized Facebook page but personally in both of these instances it makes it more difficult for me to agree with them.
So since I couldn't link to people's blogs on my Live Journal account, I've switched to Blogger. I like Blogger. Dr. Akhavan was right, you can create more than one blog per email address so bada-bing, bada-boom! Now please comment, classmates so I don't feel like a waste!
