I was thinking about this for a while; how to deal with people to the point where it will not drive me insane? People think that I should just be the listener and agree with them. When I address my opinion I get ignored and that person simply changes the subject like whatever I said is completely unimportant. Also, they keep talking and expect me to agree with them all the time. It gives them the satisfaction that I am just the listener and I obey them. I am just totally fed up with people’s behavior and wondering what I can do to stop it in a better way. Ignoring didn’t help. Anger didn’t tell. A shocked face and stuttering to answer anymore didn’t help.

Here are a few scenarios that I had to endure the past few days.

1. I was talking to this person about random things I usually don’t have anything in common, but friendly talk to pass the time when he brings up a subject. I listen and I answer. However, when I start a subject, he completely changes the subject back. Although the conversation ended and it was becoming repetitive. It is like I am not allowed to state my opinion or bring up a conversation and I am immediately disregarded. Why the hell are people like that?
2. A friend of mine keeps calling me with her problems and life events. A lot of them are repetitive events and mistakes she continues to make without thinking. Maybe it is her luck. I am not sure. To me I don’t agree with her lifestyle at all, but I just listen and I tolerate her because I know deep down inside she is better than that, and she listens to me whenever I need her. However, she calls and tells me almost the same story and same problems again early this morning. I just listen, and I kept saying, “ok”, “why”, “didn’t that happen before”, “are you ever going to get over him?” After a few minutes she realized I completely lost interest in her conversation. In reality, I just couldn’t stand listening anymore and I wondered how long do I have to endure listening to this. If I tell her to stop, she will think I am a bad friend and I am ignoring her. At times she doesn’t tell me till after the event by a few days cause she knows I seldom agree with her actions and it gives her time to get over her problems first before she tells me. At that point I am completely appalled at what she did and I just tell her, “what do you want me to do now?” In reality, what am I to do? Sympathize? Have pity? Talk some sense into her? I tried it all, but no use. Born a stubborn goat will always be stubborn goat.
3. Continuous ridicule by my mother. Dear God when will it stop! I keep telling her to leave me alone. To stop telling me what to do and what not to do. She doesn’t understand why I get mad and yell back. It drives me insane. It got to the point where I immediately snap before she finishes the sentence. What does she do after? She gets mad and starts praying to God to help her deal with me and it is better off she is dead and not have to deal with such rotten kids. Etc, etc.. You know how Arabs are. They can’t smack their kids after a certain age, so they start throwing blasphemous phrases to make the situation worse! God when will it end!

Why are people like this?

I need to meet new people who just want to talk normally and actually want to have a unique and different conversation from day to day!

Blah Blah, Random Thoughts, They said what?

I have watched some bad movies in my life but the movie “I Know who Killed Me” tops them all. I decided to watch it out of curiosity. I never questioned Lindsey Lohan’s ability to act. I loved the movie “Mean Girls” and thought it was well done. However, this crappy movie I saw was her all time low. I was surprised by the way this movie really was messed up. The actors were unbelievable. Lindsey was the only person in the movie who was believable as an actress. The plot was stupid and messed up. It was seriously gruesome and I wanted to throw up. I couldn’t stand watching about 15 – 20 minutes worth of it. I had my eyes closed! It was too gruesome and disgusting. I am not into killing and stuff. I mean it depends how it is made. Some action/adventure with graphic scenes are not THAT gruesome and you know it is fake.

However, in this movie it was disgusting because she was tortured and her hand and skin was disgustingly tortured, and the fingers cut off. Also her leg! I was like wtf. This is beyond graphical and beyond gross. I can’t believe she decided to take on this role. No wonder she is on drugs. Acting in such a movie can send you to rehab. I bet she didn’t watch it again and threw up and would rather stay in rehab.

Also, don’t forget the semi porno in this movie too. I think they added the porn scenes to grab the audience and have some people coming out to watch Lindsey Lohan show her body. Not only that, the story was too predictable and the ending sucked. I just hated it. I want two hours of my life back!

I can’t wait till next weekend. I will go watch “Star Dust”. I am excited about that.

Ranting as usual!, Whatever!

I have been browsing the net all evening trying to find new and interesting things about the blog world. I found lots of info and lots of history about blogging. Lots of interesting things happened to people over time I guess. I also was looking at social bookmarking tools that can help me keep up with the latest news in RSS feeds of blogs I like. This way I can save time and I can check only blogs I like from anywhere that have been updated. So I joined netvibes and I will use it as much as I use iGoogle and other dynamic websites to keep me up to date with the world.

I also saw some tips about blogging and how to enhance your blog. The tip that is repeated everywhere, is keep updating your blog. It’s because of all those bots that crawl through your site from search engines trying to index you. If you have updated content daily, then numerous search engines will keep crawling though trying to get new content. I think the problem with some bloggers out there is that they post sporadicaly and sometimes go a week or two without posting. Why? Some of them honestly, and I keep up with lots of blogs, don’t really know what to talk about.

I find blogging easy. Talk about things that you may talk with a colleague or a person who is just a friend or buddy. Just find an interest and theme to your blog and stick to it. Lots of bloggers just like the idea of visitors and people commenting. To them it gives them the drive to write more. It’s always good to have a motive, but in reality, you need more than just visitors to keep your blog alive.

The blogging community according to technorati is around 71 million bloggers. Not a bad number eh?

So keep on blogging, and if anyone wants to share their blog with me than tell me. I love to read and I am interested in diverse thoughts and new blogs. I am more interested in real personal blogs. Those are my favorite.

So time for me to play with netvibes and then sleep. Nightz Nightz.

Random Thoughts, Sleepy Post

The Facebook epidemic has permeated our homes like the stupid MySpace fad and MSN chatting. It is funny when you do some surveys and they ask you how many hours do you spend on the computer/internet: 0 – 3 hours a day, 3 – 6 hours a day, 6 or more. I just laugh… 0 – 3, 3 – 6? Who the hell wrote those stupid surveys. Be realistic for goodness sake. The average time that people spend on the internet is 9 hours a day, and 8 hours of those 9 are on facebook! The rest of their waking hours they spend it in the bathroom or eating or watching TV.

I am a victim of facebook. I had it for over 2 years now when it was still fresh and new. However, I use it as pure entertainment and a place to post my pics and music. That’s it. I added a few people I know and found some old school mates. Also the groups are great. I love the group feature, it’s like having multiple forums or discussion boards that you can easily have access to with one login name. I am very opinionated and I like sharing my two cents in such groups. So that’s the primary intention of Facebook. A social network within your network of friends. Your network being your University, or work, and you can only sign up with the organization’s email address and be confirmed. Somehow that all changed due to the costs to maintain such sites. Not enough people joining that will cover Facebook employee’s salary. They get their money from the ridiculous advertising on the side and on the bottom of the screen if you have not noticed. Especially that annoying smiley advertising where your mouse goes over it by mistake, and when you have headphones on, the shock of hearing a freak talking is fucking annoying! Yes I swore cause I don’t like forced advertisement or annoying sounds when I am browsing any website!

So the advertisement needed more people and more clicks, but how to get more people? The clever minds of the marketing team decided that Facebook is too limited. The networks are too limiting and biased to the rest of the world, or even the universe and the stars above! Wasn’t the purpose of Facebook to be a social network within a certain organization or University?

The Facebook team said, “no, we have to open it up. We are not as popular as MySpace because not everyone can join!”

Facebook was then opened to the world like a mall on the day before Christmas. Everyone rushed to join, and if you were not a member, then you are ridiculed and made fun of. Also if you just met a person then the first thing you ask them, “Do you have a Facebook account? No? Common join and add me!” No need to ask for phone numbers or msn emails anymore. Facebook is the fad now a days, and if you are not on it, then you are not “part of the crowd!”

Ok, fine, everyone is on it, however, the problem with facebook is the age limit. It says now, to sign up to Facebook, you must verify that you are 18 or older, or part of a high school network. So now you must have a high school email which most high schools now provide to their students. Hmm, that’s fine. A high school network is ok I guess. Not a big deal, but the over 18 age verification? Not a smart idea. So what do kids do? Sign up claiming they are born 1989 or before. They are old enough to do math and count backwards. That’s not brain science!

So you got a bunch of kids floating around in facebook. Some as young as 8 or 9 years old. My sister is one of them, but she is almost 12. I warned her numerous times about this. I asked her “how did you sign up?” She said, “I put your birth year, 1980 but my birthday month and day. So technically I am older than you now! ” (laughing and her tongue sticking out literately) She is born in August, and I am December!

I said, “ok fine, you can join facebook, but I warn you about it. And if I see you doing anything stupid I will disconnect your internet, and I don’t care if you tell dad and mom and cry about it. I will tell them the truth and see how much trouble you will get your self into!”

So she promised me but I kept my eyes open.

She keeps adding her self to numerous groups, making up her own groups, adding her friends and even fake celebrity profiles to just see pics of them and she knows they are fake but fun to have as a friend. (Kids what can you do?) So I tolerated. Almost every day she talks to me about Facebook, it seems to amuse kids quite a bit. Especially with all it’s kid like applications that they added as a feature the past 3 or 4 months. It seems to draw the kid crowd eh?

Today however, she comes up to me and says, “oh my God! Do you know who I found on Facebook?” I said “who?” She said, “XXXXX name, the daughter of our gym instructor!” I said, “ok”. I was curious to see my self. So I searched for her name. She said, “no no, search within this high school network!” I said, “huh ok”. I said,”No girl. She doesn’t go to this school, she would go to the same school as her older brother!”

So I searched more and I saw a fake profile. (yes fake, I can tell!) I was like who the hell wrote this, that’s not her? And why are you the only person that posted on her wall, and she is not 12 years old as was written in the fake About Me section! My sister just closed my screen real quick and said “forget it!” I screamed and said, “how dare you close my browser!” So she left. I waited a couple of minutes and I searched for that person’s name again, and it was gone from the search results.

I messaged my sister on MSN. (Yes it is sad that we talk to each other within the same house on MSN.) And I told her, “so you decided to delete that fake profile you made! I swear to God, if you do anything else stupid with Facebook and people seeing your name associated with it I will disconnect you from the internet for good!” She got scared and kept making up other stories. For a girl who is almost 12 years old she sure can come up with a lot of shit! I said, “I am warning you one last time! And if you add people you don’t know or make up fake crap than you will be sorry!”

I ended it there and she went up to her room and sat and watched TV.

So what has Facebook done? It enhanced the art of making fake profiles using other real people’s names and children as young as 12 are clever enough to use such methods. So what do you think adults are doing?

Angry, They said what?, Whatever!