Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

So I have now been back on Fubar for about a week and am being reminded of the perils of playing on the internet. So far this weekend I have rated I would guess about 3,000 pics 11 and have received 10 pic ratings, one bling and a few drinks in return, one TYVM XXXOOO  and that is about it. I appreciated my first bling very much and I was not expecting that cause I have not been on Fubar long enough to know what to expect half the time. Now I really hate to be critical but it is apparent I need to regroup and calm my expectations here a bit.

I am not a noob online and have been on many sites, met some very nice people and some real jerks.  I am certain many have had the same experience as it comes with cyber territory.  I am not the type that is very pushy.  My premise has always been that if your talking or interacting with a lady online you need to remember that you are not in their presence physically and usually someone else is so never take any of it very seriously until you make eye to eye contact in the real world.  Here we do not have the luxury of being able to watch someone move, blink their eyes or make a facial gesture when we write to them or communicate, ( I have yet to be on webcam so I guess you can there and it might be a more positive experience). What I do know is that on Fubar, as well as many other social sites, we are basically involved in a window shopping mentality when it comes to meeting people.

So on Fubar one of the main criteria is to play together nicely as one friend of mine asks us to do on her profile status.  If I take a few hours to rate  profiles with hundreds of pics on it I am not unreasonable to expect she might pop on my page and at least rate a few of mine.  Especially since I am new and don't have many pics up yet. Not as though it would take anyone away from other people for hours on end. Just a basic courtesy it seems to me.  I know, I am just out of my mind for thinking that is part of this game.

So I see it is time to alter my expectations after my first week here.  I am not obssesed with points.  I will get to that point in time.  I do think this is a nice site for social interaction as long as you spend a couple grand a month on blings and such.  I never had the expectation that meeting anyone here was in the cards for me.  Plenty of younger nicer looking guys in the windows.  I did think people would be a little more courteous and so I think I have not found the right people to play with.  I am not mad or upset about it.  Just learning about what makes this site tick and altering my game plan a little.  Tomorrow I will talk about basic expectations in communication here and some of the really funny irony I see in the way people interact.  For now I better get back and start deleting and get on with my window shopping.  After all, I want those special abilities I have been reading about.  We can all use a few special abilities in this life.  More tomorrow....