My 10 Commandments of Blogging
1. Thou shalt not whine, b*tch, gripe, complain or try to guilt "friends" into liking you or constantly complain about your general lack of attention in blogs, blasts and quick comments. It's reminicient of the old childhood ditty of "No one likes me, everyone hates me...I'm going to the garden to eat worms" and completely irritating. Mmmmmmmm'kay...go right ahead, protein is good for you.
2. Thou shalt not send private messages (even the very nice and humorous ones) and then leave people absolutely NO way to answer you. If your options are set to receive messages from people on your friend's list only, your quick comments on your page are not accessible for anyone but friends (and you only have one friend on your page in the first place), and/or your yahoo ID is not listed so that someone can send you an email or messenger answer...that's a HUGE problem and frustrating! You should not send message after message and then wonder why no one answers you. (BEAR!!! NO ONE CAN ANSWER YOU IF YOU DON'T CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS!! *wink*)
3. Thou shalt not have the right ("gentlemen") to fuss WHEN (not if) the combination of women you put on your page resembling the hoochie mama convention in Las Vegas start to turn on you and each other trying to compete in who will out-slut each other. Men, you reap what you sow. Try to remember that we females have absolutely no common sense at times and you will (read that, you WILL) have some females on your list that could have appeared in Fatal Attraction boiling bunnies. They will make your life miserable if you start to flirt with every single female online when they thought they were special. I know it's fun to attract 300 of your bestest naked buddies (even the ones with fake pics) so it looks like you're the Hugh Hefner of the internet...but just be ready when it starts to explode. (or when you catch something from sleeping around with everyone that will share you in real life for a "meaningful" one night stand)
4. Thou shalt not ("ladies") have the right to complain about, stalk, threaten to kill yourself, nor trash a man's reputation by going to every female on his page to "warn" his friends about him...if you've made a bad choice or been naive enough to fall in love with a total stranger "bad boy" online without ever meeting/dating him before you jump into bed with him. If you find the afore mentioned "bad boys" unbearly attractive, then also realize there is a reason they have that label and as in #3, you will get what you asked for. They WILL be bad with you and will earn that reputation by being scum with you too. Do not post endless blogs bemoaning the fact that you've been an idiot and how it's all his fault. Pull up the big girl panties already, learn and move on. There is such a thing as the high road.
5. Thou shalt not put thy full real name, social security number, phone number and address online for all the world to see...not even to get birthday presents or so that people can help you out in paying your electric bill. Not only is it a "tad" dangerous, it just means we'll have to all take up a collection to have the word "stupid" tattooed on your forehead. Privately sharing your personal information with people you have actually known for a while and form a connection with is perfectly acceptable if you have been tested and found to have common sense and a bit of intuition. If in real life, you constantly find yourself surrounded with people that disappoint or mistreat you, assume you have not passed the common sense test.
6. Thou shalt not change your blast every five minutes by moving a puncutation mark or adding a space, just to get people to notice you and perhaps visit your page. Chances are it will not have the desired effect and only label you as suffering from a severe case of LACK OF ATTENTION DISORDER.
7. Thou shalt not have a totally blank profile and expect to have everyone flock to be your friend. If you have no pictures (even an avatar), no information...not even a cheesy quote on your page, prepare to be pretty lonely. Even if you might be a hot babe or stud muffin man in real life (not likely, but it could happen)...having no personality or a personality that is only player-like in appearance, is pretty much a boring turn-off.
8. Thou shalt not proclaim regularly of having to clean your list up or have a count down to deletion. If you feel the need to trim your "friends" list of the deadwood, just go the heck ahead and do it, but quietly. If you feel the need to announce it ad nauseum...beg, plead, threaten or conjole your "friends" to flock to your page to announce their fidelity and everlasting loyalty to you, it defeats the purpose. To make a "friend" feel the need to apologize for not visiting your page on YOUR schedule and for letting their real life intrude on your online only friendship isn't very friend-like. This is online people. If you don't know someone in real life, you need to realize they have different priorities and things happening in their life that might intrude on this wonderful circus called cyberspace. Everyone here has a different commitment level or reason for being here...along with differing ways of interacting. None of them are right or wrong. If their way of interacting doesn't meet up with the highly unrealistic expectations you cook up in your thought process of how they should handle online interactions, that is your problem, not theirs. Just delete them without fanfare and find other minions that will kiss your butt the way you want them to.
9. Thou shalt not send friend requests simply consisting of the basic standard invitation or one that only includes your desire to cam. If you're only here to get your rocks or rockettes off (while still being totally in love with your spouse or significant other and always faithful...news alert, if you form emotional connections or vitually get naked with others on here, it's not fidelity, even with the spouse's "permission" *rolling my eyes*), more power to you...just don't expect that everyone you find attractive or throw an empty barrage of compliments at is going to immediately fall under your spell and want get nekkid for you. As for just sending the basic invitation, don't assume someone won't visit your page and discover your fetish for spanking, three-somes, and f*cking animals or that you are a total dork too lazy to do anything to your page BEFORE they click accept.
10. Thou shalt not repeatedly call attention to how many people have visited your page or act like a teenager in a high school popularity contest, crawling over others or figuratively screwing anyone you meet (without the benefit of lube) in an attempt to fuel your own ego. If you're getting tons of hits, that's a great thing. Hopefully, it's because you're an interesting, lovely or studly person that people want to be around and actually enjoy interacting with and reading what you have to say. If it's simply because you're an attention whore (male or female) pulling stunts, creating drama or acting like the town ride to order to gain the title of Mr. or Ms. Popularity that you do not enjoy in real life (usually for good reason), you will indeed get a reputation...just probably not the one you were aimming for. Here's a radical idea...try being yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised to find a lot of other people online that actually like you for yourself and not the caricature you hide behind.
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Bonus:
11. Thou shalt NOT send mass messages to everyone on your list either proclaiming your love for "me" and/or the demonic version of an online chain letter. Please don't hit me with the sexy truck, warn me to not add the latest rumored hacker that will erase my hard drive, or tell me how special I am (along with every other female on your list that you're trying to cam with). If you feel the need to send something around, at least have the ability to know how to hide the fact that it's not an exclusive message by checking the box on the messages to hide the other recipients ID's. If you are incapable of doing this, you will be quietly deleted from my list (see #8 above) if it occurs over and over again after I've asked you politely to knock it off. It's frustrating to have everyone that you sent it to, hit "reply all" and to get the same message (that was silly in the first place) 300 more times from total strangers.
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