Yesterday morning, I woke up to see that my phone had exploded from Twitter. The majority were from Alex Day (ThatAlexDay) talking about Pottermore and how he didn't know what the fuck it is. A few things that caught my eye though, were his tweets about privacy.
A few months back, he posted a long blogpost about his experience with crazy "fans" (I use that term lightly). One of them had evidently stood there knocking on their door for a good 15 minutes, whilst Alex sat there dumbfounded, eating a sandwich. Yesterday, some girl put some winegums through their door, and then proceeded to knock for a while...
...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
I'm sorry, but I would feel weirded out if some person tried to get my attention by knocking on my door, knowing full well that I have no idea who they are. Now granted, that's never happened, seeing as I've only got 200 something subscribers, but does that even matter? Just because Alex has got 375,000 subscribers doesn't mean he is famous. And even if he was "famous" (although, like Savannah said, there's no real way to define that), he's still just A PERSON. A person who's got fears, insecurities, and doesn't what random strangers knocking on his door!
Also, sidenote, if you're THAT much of an Alex Day fanatic, wouldn't you have read his blog post about stalking him? You're either completely mad, thinking that this rule doesn't apply to you, or you don't actually care about what he has to say. It's a great possibility that these people are among the population that just subscribe to stare at Alex or Charlie's faces.
Yeah, okay, I got off on sort of a tangent there, but my main point is this. It is disgustingly sad that Alex and Charlie have to actually take the effort to move houses primarily because of people who think the best way to meet their heroes (or whatever) is to stalk them.
That is all.
~Rachel
www.youtube.com/user/rachelmakesitawkward
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Following The Crowd
LOL, so I kind of have a blog now.
I'm assuming that if you're reading this, you know me. You either follow me on YouTube, Twitter, or you're one of my friends.
On the offchance that you found this blog through some other means, HELLO! I'm Rachel. I make videos on YouTube sometimes, and I'm a nerdfighter. And if you don't know what a nerdfighter is, please, Google it. It will change your life.
I'm not a big deal, really. I just recently graduated from high school, and I've grown up in Texas for the past 7 or so years (this meaning that I've moved, not that I'm a seven year old who just graduated from high school). I really enjoy playing the guitar, singing, dancing, but none of that I'm particularly amazing at. Next year I'll be attending college to study Music/Education.
But, enough about me. Sort of.
I feel as though social networking sites sort of have a social inertia effect on people, and they're all very subjective to what time period you're looking at. In the mid 2000's, people were obsessed with AIM (AOL instant messenger) - it was the new thing, the new craze, the new way to talk to your friends. The reason I begin there is because for my generation, just having email was never something that we ever had to deal with. But now we've developed into so many websites to connect with people on, it's absolutely mind blowing. It stretches all the way from dating sites such as eHarmony - to sites that I use every day (Facebook, Twitter, VYou, BlogSpot, Skype). Even so, there are still a few sites I have bookmarked that I haven't used yet. DailyBooth and Tumblr are just kind of sitting on my pages, waiting to be used. In every possible way, the method in which we connect to people we know (and even people we want to know) is constantly evolving. I used to think that Facebook was the only way to talk to my friends (and occasionally stalk them), and once I began making videos, my friendcount as well as my site-usage kind of exploded.
Saying all of that, I still haven't even touched on the dark parts of the internet. And I don't think I will, just in case.
I guess the point I am trying to make, is that in a year from now, Facebook could be obsolete (I mean, come on, look at Myspace), and social networking could take another turn. I absolutely love how technology is always evolving to what people need and want, and I can't wait to see where it goes next.
Also, if any of you can help me with Tumblr... I still don't know how to use it.
My YouTube: RachelMakesItAwkward (Subscribers: 227)
My Twitter: RachelsAwkward (Followers: 74)
I'm assuming that if you're reading this, you know me. You either follow me on YouTube, Twitter, or you're one of my friends.
On the offchance that you found this blog through some other means, HELLO! I'm Rachel. I make videos on YouTube sometimes, and I'm a nerdfighter. And if you don't know what a nerdfighter is, please, Google it. It will change your life.
I'm not a big deal, really. I just recently graduated from high school, and I've grown up in Texas for the past 7 or so years (this meaning that I've moved, not that I'm a seven year old who just graduated from high school). I really enjoy playing the guitar, singing, dancing, but none of that I'm particularly amazing at. Next year I'll be attending college to study Music/Education.
But, enough about me. Sort of.
I feel as though social networking sites sort of have a social inertia effect on people, and they're all very subjective to what time period you're looking at. In the mid 2000's, people were obsessed with AIM (AOL instant messenger) - it was the new thing, the new craze, the new way to talk to your friends. The reason I begin there is because for my generation, just having email was never something that we ever had to deal with. But now we've developed into so many websites to connect with people on, it's absolutely mind blowing. It stretches all the way from dating sites such as eHarmony - to sites that I use every day (Facebook, Twitter, VYou, BlogSpot, Skype). Even so, there are still a few sites I have bookmarked that I haven't used yet. DailyBooth and Tumblr are just kind of sitting on my pages, waiting to be used. In every possible way, the method in which we connect to people we know (and even people we want to know) is constantly evolving. I used to think that Facebook was the only way to talk to my friends (and occasionally stalk them), and once I began making videos, my friendcount as well as my site-usage kind of exploded.
Saying all of that, I still haven't even touched on the dark parts of the internet. And I don't think I will, just in case.
I guess the point I am trying to make, is that in a year from now, Facebook could be obsolete (I mean, come on, look at Myspace), and social networking could take another turn. I absolutely love how technology is always evolving to what people need and want, and I can't wait to see where it goes next.
Also, if any of you can help me with Tumblr... I still don't know how to use it.
My YouTube: RachelMakesItAwkward (Subscribers: 227)
My Twitter: RachelsAwkward (Followers: 74)
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