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Social Experience

SocialXperience.com — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:43:02 +0000

There have been many relationships for me over the years. I have met many interesting people. There were the friends and teachers from grade school who you have your first real relationships. The first girl that you kissed and you knew that this time would last forever. The bully at recess, who you knew would have a tough life ahead of them. The other kids who stayed overnight to play hide and seek in the basement. The fun we had, and the dreams we had we knew would keep us all together. I had different friends in high school, some were the jocks and some were the geeks. We went to prom together like everyone else, yet it seemed that the interaction among us started to change. The feelings were stronger and the pain was longer. The weekdays were just as long as the weekends were short. The breakup after 3 months with a girlfriend seemed like this time would last forever. School was tough in other ways too. I had a lot of friends, but it seemed like there were bigger things to come after graduation. We all went our separate ways to meet other new friends. We moved on to new adventures. Meeting new people in college and working odd jobs became a whole new social experience for me. Working at a restaurant and meeting middle-aged men washing dishes seemed a little unusual, but then I began to think about what their circumstances were about. I met a girl who was about 10 years older than me and she was a single mom, she was going to school at night and she worked as a cook. Her story was how she wanted to help her son by getting him into a better school, since he had difficulties learning. The other cook was proud to moving up at the restaurant as a the head cook, he had been there for nearly 4 years. The older lady at the check out was here to make some money and to make new friends since her husband had passed away. I realized that this was just a moment for me while during school, this was a big deal to them. Some days I did not want to work, because school was getting me down. As I looked at the others and their situations, I began to realize that my experiences were not about me, but about everyone else.

After college I got a job far away from family and friends because it was the best opportunity at the time. Although, I began to see more hardships of others around me. I was not always the type who considered the glass half empty, but I guess this kind of stuff was more evident to me than the good things at this point. As I moved on into my adult life I guess I really began to understand my life lesson. I began my first real job in sales and have not looked back since. I will share my job experiences on a future post. I have learned how to better see and feel the needs of others. This has helped me in my experiences with others. No matter how difficult your life may seem, there is always someone who has a bigger challenge.
I have now begun to explore other personal experiences on the web and have enjoyed blogs and forums like these to share and read about others. Words cannot describe that the world is so much bigger than you are, look outside yourself to see inside of others and you will have a more positive social experience.

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Digg has gone overboard with advertising

Shell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:51:46 +0000

From my experience, Digg has chosen a very intrusive advertising method. Here is a screen shot of my Digg home page and the ad that popped up. Notice the very subtle close button, for all intents and purposes, hidden in the top right.

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Starting a Blog

Shell — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:11:15 +0000

From my experiences, starting a blog is exciting, fun and a lot of hard work. Well, actually, starting a blog isn’t hard work, maintaining a blog is extremely hard work. Let me define maitaining: writing blog posts on a regular basis. This blog, From My Experience, started with lofty goals of being a resource to help other people by user and bloggers sharing their personal experiences in daily life situations. It hasn’t gone as I would have hoped. I have written the majority of the posts even when I had hoped I would only be kick starting the blog

Well, almost a year later and the addition of a monthly contest with a cash prize and I can say the results have been less than stellar. In fact I have less the 100 posts during the first year when I had hoped to average 4 per week. It hasn’t been a failure but not the success I had hoped for. Over time I have fizzled on writing, as I feel sometimes it is writing in a vacuum. It seems though that others are taking up the reins somewhat because I do get a few experience submissions every month. Time will tell if this blog can support itself and for now I am content to let it continue to live on. I’m sure some of the shared experiences have comforted others and some of the posts have caused a chuckle here and there. FromMyExperience.com averages about 70 visitors per day and appears to be on the rise I suppose it deserves another chance.

But as I said, keeping up a blog is hard and when the fire of desire turns to embers of apathy it is time to look for motivation elsewhere. And so with that I have started a blog (the easy part) and will be writing on it full time (the hard part) but it has so far been a labor of love and people are helping out with less prodding and it is a fun blog. It is called TopTenz.net and it is a site that features Top 10 Lists.

I invite and encourage everyone to visit and read through the bizarre and funny lists that have already been added. As with this blog, TopTenz.net encourages reader participation. If you have a top ten list to submit, please do. I will provide a link to any site you wish if the list is accepted. So far TopTenz.net is averaging 1,000 visitors per day and the lists are great fun to research and to write.

So while I’ll still be watching this site with great interest and posting every now and then, I will be devoting most of my efforts towards TopTenz.net. That doesn’t mean this site won’t grow, it will as long as people keep posting. Share and submit an experience, you won’t regret it!

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