Let's create a new word...

Auto-respect. It's the kind of respect that you give someone that you don't know a lot about who is respected by others.

For instance, when you stumble across someone on Youtube with over 1000 subscribers. Automatic respect. Or when someone with over 1000 lurve points answers a question on Fluther. Automatic respect.

Often, auto-respect leads to exponentially increasing respect. There is, however, a time at which there is no one new to give said respect. This will be called the respect cap.

Auto-respect can also be defined as "the kind of respect that makes it seem impossible for an unpopular Internet user to ever surpass their piddly 46 subscriber count or 240 lurve point count".

Not that anyone is counting.

WTF

I woke up this morning and immediately started surfing the net. I haven't moved since then, save to get myself some coffee. Something is wrong here.

I feel like there isn't enough time in the day to absorb everything that I see on the net. And I've subscribed to so many things that keeping up to date is getting quite difficult. Fluther is addicting as hell (thank Ceiling Cat it isn't more popular), my favourite Youtubers keep posting awesome videos (seriously, stop it, guys), and I keep finding more and more sites to explore. Damn Internet. Why do you have to be so amazing?

But I love it. Why can't I just do this for a while? Oh, yeah. There's work to be done. And there's an Oasis concert in a few hours...

Textiness

I need to get more pictures on this blog. Too much text is bad for your health.

New time waster (as if I need one) - fluther.com. You ask questions and get answers. You answer questions and get lurve. It's that simple.

The site seemed limitless, at first, until I realized that no one on there really shares the same interests as me. Many are knowledgeable about computers, and everyone has an opinion on music and religion, but other than that it's a little dry. Also, the people who have been there a long time tend to ignore the noobs. I guess that's the way it is everywhere...

Also, I only JUST started getting RSS feeds. I'd heard about them, but thought it was some complex process to get them. To make using them easier, I've downloaded the Better GReader plugin for Firefox. Better GMail is making me smile also =D

It's only a matter of time before I start using del.icio.us and digg and all those fun things.

Note to self: I should start embedding videos in here, too. Mmmmhmmmmm...