So I'm subscribed to Chris's Xanga site. Mostly because he comes across, at the most cursory level, as a good guy. I actually don't know. All I have are a few blog entries to base this all one. But until proven otherwise, all the evidence seems to keep pointing that way.
Anyway, today I find out, completely out of the blue, about this "revelife" thing. After checking my browser's status bar - to make sure it wasn't yet another rick-roll - I find myself in this alternate dimension version of Xanga. So similar. Yet, so different. Kind of like one of those sci-fi stories where the guy walks into his town and same the buildings are standing but all the people are gone.
Also, no pictures of turds in toilets.
It's been not just a little bit confusing. But it's a nice kind of confusing. The kind that balances my moderate level of curiosity with a not-too-intimidating learning curve.
What follows are some initial impressions...
It's very easy on the eyes. I dunno. I'm in a sky blue-ish relaxed mode tonight. I even picked out a sky-blue theme for what was going to be a dummy weblog site. But lo and behold...a real entry. Sort of.
I miss my premium. The fancy editor (where are the bullet points? this bullet list is going to look very silly without bullet dots.) The lack of ads. The knowledge that I am inherently better than the non-premium users. Maybe I can earn enough credits to "buy" premium.
I've become addicted to all the incentive credits being given away. Bonus credits for writing 10 comments? Credits for writing five entries? Credits for adding friends?!? (which, btw, disappointedly revealed to me why I'm getting random friend requests from a site that's onlya few hours old) I think you probably get bonus credits just for signing in, too.
Anyway, I now have about twice as many credits in just a few hours on revelife than I've accumulated after four years on Xanga.
I'm using Firefox for Xanga. Opera for revelife. I was going crazy for a while with the one-login limitation. Clicking on my subscriptions and not seeing anything was actually a bit of a shock for some reason.
So I'm curious how I'll end up finding new subs and people around here. For the past few years it's been commenter-of-a-sub (with the occasional online stalker every now and then.) I'm almost tempted to stalk the front page chat box and see how that goes.
btw, "revlife.com" is not the same as "revelife.com" What is "reve" anyway?
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