My Grey World

Or maybe more appropriately titled “Deleting Friendster’s Junkmonials”.

I won’t even bother to define what “junkmonial” is. But I can give you some examples of junkmonials. Just click here. ha ha. Sorry I’m too damn lazy. =P

And to clarify, no, I didn’t delete my testimonials (or junkmonials) just because of that post. Ha ha.

Friendster now has the feature of “Leave Comment”. Though not using MySpace, I’m pretty sure that the feature has been in MySpace for quite some time. And I guess it’s similar to Facebook’s wall.

The point is, you can leave (public, of course) comment on somebody’s Friendster profile. Or maybe some glittery thingy along with “Please reply. Muackz!” line, some “I love you darling, forever and always…” line for some person that has been your boyfriend or girlfriend for 2 weeks or so (sometimes even shorter), some “How you doin’?” line, feel free to expand the list……

Thus, with that comment feature being up, we need not to leave the so-called testimonials with the characteristics mentioned above. And we didn’t even have to wait for the profile owner to approve. Kewl.

As for myself, I actually hated it when my testimonial’s page suddenly became the place for my friends to communicate with me. I mean, I was like, “Hello?? I thought Friendster has this feature called messages??”. And if you don’t believe me, I wrote about that. Here’s the link. I wrote in Indonesian and it was just an additional to my real post though.
However, hate it or not, slowly I became like them too. Ha ha. But I got a reason. For me, Friendster’s messaging feature is too slow and takes forever to load. And not because of loading their feature, but loading ads ads ads. Yew. So, long words short, it’s easier to leave testimonials (junkmonials) on people’s profiles rather than bothering to click the “Send Message” link.

So while blogging this, I’m on my way deleting the junkmonials.

However, there is something.

The thing is, when I went through my testimonials, I just realized that actually my testimonials are not only what-people-said-about-me things or some-unimportant-testimonials. My testimonials actually captured my moments of life too. My birthdays (I have passed 3 birthdays since I joined Friendster on January 2004), Christmases and New Years, Easters, even the time of my final high school exam, or even the time when I was being all-out for my individual projects at my first term.

Nevertheless, I stay with my commitment.

So sorry guys for deleting your testimonials.. Yeah it feels like deleting my pieces of life history..

Well no matter. I still have this blog. Heehee.

I used to have 425 testimonials. I’m still on my way deleting while finishing this blog post. Maybe when you see it, I already cleared all the junkmonials. Click here to see.

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