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Monday, September 17, 2007
On meme strike
While you would think that the idea of chain letters is dead, it is in fact still living on in the form of blog "memes". Bildo tagged me. But while I participated in such a meme once, I never really liked the idea. Thus I decided to go on strike, and not participate in this meme.
One contributing factor was that the meme wasn't a very interesting one. Come on! Couldn't the original author come up with something better than "4 jobs you had, 4 TV shows you like, 4 places you lived, etc."? Answering that feels like filling out a tax form or something. With a meme like "5 things you didn't know about me" you at least get a large degree of freedom what you want to answer.
Another thing is that you don't know who tagged you, unless you read that person's blog. No disrespect to my fellow bloggers, but I won't guarantee to anyone of you that I'm reading your blog regularly, and thus would automatically be aware of any tag. I read blogs in bursts, some days I read a lot of them, on other days I don't read any. I wouldn't want anyone to be disappointed because he tagged me and I never replied.
So I'm reserving my freedom to opt out of any memes I'm being tagged with, unless they are particularly interesting.
- posted by Tobold @ 2:04 PM Permanent Link
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No problemo, Tobold.
I tend to do the memes when I have nothing better to report, and I realized you do stop by my blog from time to time, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
If a good one comes by my lap though, I'll try again. :)
I tend to do the memes when I have nothing better to report, and I realized you do stop by my blog from time to time, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
If a good one comes by my lap though, I'll try again. :)
Oh so that is how it works - you have to read someones blog to know they have tagged you. I thought you just sat back and the mails flooded in notifying you that you have been tagged. There I was feeling unloved and unwanted but now I realise that bloggers all over the interverse are probably tagging me as I speak but I just haven't seen it yet ;)
The one thing I noted about this particular one, at least the ones I read, was that every single vacation spot mentioned was in the US.
Unfortunately that fits with stereotypes of US people.
Unfortunately that fits with stereotypes of US people.
# posted by 
: 17/9/07 22:50
: 17/9/07 22:50
Not ALL of us, although I guess I might not count, as I was not born in the USA, although I am a citizen who has lived most of his life here, but yea...
# posted by : 17/9/07 22:57
: 17/9/07 22:57
@ sente You have to remember that a good percentage of US citzens don't own a passport...but living in such a huge country I can sort of understand why you would want to explore your homeland before flying 7 hours+ for a holiday.
# posted by : 18/9/07 01:49
: 18/9/07 01:49
Depends what you want out of your trip really. To me travelling is not about seeing sight X in place Y, but rather going to a whole different place, with different kinds of people, different food, different culture etc. Americans may think that Alabama and New York are soooo different from each other, but really, it's still the same country.
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