A N00b's Guide To The Internet: Social Networking

Social Networking is something that I never quite understood or liked that much, even though I seem to be the person that these sites would be targeting. A teenage boy with a small social life and a computer in his room, that's the main target right? In theory they sound like a really neat idea, you and your friends have profiles filed with personal information about you guys and whenever anyone wants to be your "friend" you share this information with them. What could possibly go wrong with this?

Myspace was not the first social networking site to ever come to be but it was the first one for me. I'm guessing that when someone started this site they were thinking it would be great, you could post bulletins of information, you could blog you could even customize your profile by using other peoples stuff to express your individuality. Sounds fun, but it really wasn't. The bulletin system, I'm guessing, was supposed to be used to share information for a group of people, kind of like one of the boards that bulletins go on, what are those called again? That is not what they were used for though. You know the those surveys that you would have to take at school? Yeah those suck, what I don't get is that people would do these for fun than post them on these bulletin boards. Do they expect me to read these? I don't care what you had for dinner last night I really don't. Than I stopped and thought to myself, why would some one post this crap? Your putting out more information on a site that's already full of information about you. Don't worry though its all good, it's just your "friends" after all right?

Okay I really can't rag on Tumblr that much because I've never actually used it, but there is a good reason for that. Here is every interaction I have ever had with tumblr and/or its users.

No, and neither does half the world. Nuff' said....Damn hipsters.

Once again, another great idea that just didn't work (for me) Twitter is like everybody in the world got together in one big room and just continually yelled everything that they were doing, thinking, thinking about doing, and things they are doing while they were thinking about things. I mean how much do you REALLY need to know about your friends? Do you really have to know what they had for dinner? Do you really have to know what Ashton Kutcher is always up too? Well more than 1,000,000 people care about that one but that's beside the point. I guess the big problem I have/had with twitter is that it made me realize that my life sucks. Here is an example of my twitter feed.

April 27 5:27
Heading home

April 27 5:45
Makin Mac & Cheese

Than someone response to that by saying something stupid and completely worthless like
"Yummy" or even worse just plane and simple "cool" never capitalized, ever.

April 27 6:30
Watchin @Lost

Once again someone will say "cool" It goes on like that for more or less 5 or so pages until i realized this website was not meant for me.

And finally I come to Facebook. After Myspace kind of died I thought I was done with social networking, but being the absolute social butterfly that I am, I just have to keep in touch with all of my people all over the country. So I set up the account, add a few people than go to bed to pass out. As I awake the next morning I find that I have a few friend requests, for some reason every ex-girlfriend that I've ever had seemed to have found me and wants to "friend" me. Yeah I definitely want to be your friend and see all of the pictures of your new boyfriend and how much better your life is now...That was sarcasm if you didn't catch on. I swear I've got a league of evil ex's. Another thing that bothers me about facebook is it claims it has all of this privacy and wants to keep you safe but I'm just saying, this site lists:
1. Your name
2. Your location
3. Photos of what you look like
4. Who your family is
5. How they are related to you

6. 1-3 about your family

7. Live updates of what you are doing

I'm just saying, if I wanted to brutally murder you and your whole family this website makes it quite easy, I'm just sayin....

Dear Rolling Stone....

I Just spent my time looking through your list of the 500 "Greatest" albums of all time and I must say I do not agree, no sir not one bit! Marvin Gaye number 6? Beach Boys number 2? Sure there ok but do they deserve to be that high up on the list? You do know that you have The Beastie Boys on your list 3 times right? Oh sorry I thought that was a mistake, you must just of shit taste in music.

Below you will find a few albums you may have missed, enjoy.


Hugs & Kisses
West Smith ;D
XOXOX

Type O Negative - Origin Of The Feces/Bloody Kisses

Stand Out Songs
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity
2. Are You Afraid
3. Gravity
6. Hey Pete
7. Kill You Tonight (Reprise)
8. Paranoid

Stand Out Songs
2. Christian Woman
3.Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
6. Summer Breeze
9. We Hate Everyone
10. Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)
12. Too Late: Frozen
13. Blood & Fire

Whats It Sound Like?
The single best goth metal band to deal with lost love, infidelity and death and still be funny.

What Makes Them So Special?
I really don't know, it might be there 6 foot 8 giant of a singer with the deepest voice I've ever heard, or it might be the fact that they put out the same album twice and got away with it. When putting Type O on here i really had a hard time deciding what album to pick because every single one is so different and good its hard to pick just one, so I didn't.

Origin Of The Feces
This album is a fake live album, what's a fake live album? Well when Type got a record deal they were more than excited, and they spent all of the money on coke and alcohol leaving little if any money left for recording. So what did they do? Added a some sound effects to there old album and renamed the songs. BAM! New album. The weird thing is that this album is

actually pretty good a master piece go get it.

Bloody Kisses

Bloody Kisses does not have some funny story behind it, its just a perfect goth metal album.

Why Rolling Stone (Probably) Didn't Put This On The List.
Def Leppard took their spot.

The Protomen - The Protomen

Stand Out Songs
1. Hope Rides Alone
3. Unrest In The House Of Light
4. The Will Of One
5. Vengeance
7. The Sons Of Fate

Whats It Sound Like?

It's like Pink Floyd wrote The Wall without good recording equipment, and instead of a wall it was written about an army of evil robots.


What Makes It So Special?
These guys did something amazing. They wrote a full on rock opera about the little blue video game character, here's the amazing part, they did that with out having it sound nerdy. But in all serious-ness, the rock opera tells the story of Dr. Thomas Light who creates a perfect machine to battle the evil Dr. Whilly and his robots, this machine is called Protoman. Protoman dies in battle. Years later Dr. Light builds another machine named Mega Man, to do the same thing. I really can't say much without giving spoilers, but it's awesome. Can you believe they made that not nerdy? This being the bands first release the sound quality is not great by any stretch of the imagination, but trust me if anything it makes it sound cooler.


Why Rolling Stone (Probably) Didn't Put This On The List.
Marvel fan boys....

A N00b's Guide To The Internet: Digital Drugs

Lets face it drugs are everywhere, and the Internet is no exception. Digital drugs are now actually quite a common thing, but what are they? How do they work? If they even work at all that is.

Digital drugs aren't as new as you might think, in fact they are actually down right old, dating back to 1839 when Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered Binaural beats. A Binaural beat is created when two different tones are play in each ear, the tones must be of slightly different frequency's. The tones should "mix" together a produce a third tone that sounds like it is coming from inside your head. Sounds totally dangerous and sounds like you probably shouldn't do it but don't worry the website says its not harmful.

But does it actually work? Well being the investigative journalist that I am, I decided that, in the name of science, I would try it. This is how it went down.

I plugged my headphones in feeling skeptical, i mean who wouldn't be a little skeptical? Press play on itunes. Suddenly I hear low buzzing/humming sounds, with occasional water flowing, or some one peeing I really couldn't tell. This went on for about 20 or so min, than it was over. I felt normal still and just naturally assumed that it did not work. Than I looked at my chair and was like," Whoa my chairs really small." Than I saw my desk and went, "Whoa my desk is really small." In a state of part panic and part shock I decided to text Jack, but my phone was just to small. I vividly remember thinking to myself, "Why did I buy this phone? It's far to small for me! It's far to small for anyone, this is ridiculous!" This lasted for about 20 min until everything went back to normal.

Let's say that you wanted to try this for yourself, where would you get these mp3 files? I-Doser.com specializes in selling these files. This website sells a variety of different MP3 all said to have different effects, everything from the effects of a bottle of wine to the effects of snorting 6 lines of coke. I of course acquired my mp3 through "a legal" means *wink* *wink*

Yes I guess this could be viewed as bad and people could get addicted to it, but hey, people get addicted to anything and everything all the time anyways. While it was..(weird?) to try I probably wont try it again.

But if I was I would drop $200 for the "Gates Of Hades" mp3. It stimulates a birds eye view over hell....Awesome.

A N00b's Guide To The Internet: Anonymous

Who is Anonymous? Anonymous isn't anyone, But it is a lot of people. Anonymous has no leader, but carries out planed attacks and raids. Simply put if the Internet was a movie, Anonymous would be the bad guy. But what makes them so bad? I mean after all, they are the people that gave us you dun goof'd. Well Let me tell you.

It all started in in 2006 with the Habbo raids. Habbo is an Social MMO where people go to socialize. On a planned day Anonymous users joined the site creating avatars of black men with suits and grey afros, with these avatars Anonymous blocked off entrances to certain areas of the site saying it was "closed due to aids." They also used all of there avatars to create swastika formations all over the website.

Also in 2006 Anonymous lunched a raid against a white supremacy radio show in New Jersey. It started with prank phone calls than escalated to a DDoS attack, (Distributed Denial-of-Service attack) This caused the radio host, Hal Turner, to try and sue 4chan.org, the site that Anonymous is know to use. He lost the law suit and than quit his job. Both of these attacks were nothing compared to what Anonymous had planed next.


On January 21st 2008 Anonymous hacked the Church Of Scientology youtube channel and posted a video called "A Message to Scientology" This video started the war between Anonymous and Scientology. Anonymous planed DDoS attacks and took down the Churches websites and sent black faxes to the church itself.

On February 2th, 2008 Anonymous posted another video called "Call To Action" This video encouraged people to protest the church of Scientology in non-violent ways. On February 10th about 8,000 people in 93 city's protested the church of Scientology.




Also in 2008 Anonymous took to many forum websites such as SOHH.com, Allhiphop.com and an Epilepsy support forum. SOHH and Allhiphop are both hip hop and rap oriented sites (obviously) Anonymous hacked into the site and changed all banners to have false news and racist images, while the Epilepsy support forum got hit with flashing images that were known to cause seizures. Both of the hip hop sites servers were crashed, and many people suffered from seizures.

As mentioned earlier Anonymous does sometimes harass young girls, now imagine with me that your a middle school girl in Cali (this is just a little weird) you decide, "Hey cussing is bad" so you start the no cussing club. Its place for teenagers to discuss clean things and of course no cussing. It was all fun and games until Anonymous found them. Anonymous raided the site of personal information and her house became the target of many prank calls and LOTS of porn delivery's.


Can people from a group that seems to cause nothing but trouble ever do anything good for anyone? Surprisingly yes. Chris Forcand was a 53 year old Internet predator with two accounts of luring children under 14 to have sex with him. Anonymous tracked him down and had him arrested, this has been the first case of Internet vigilantism. In another case of Anonymous tracked down a woman that posted a video of her self throwing puppy's into a river to drown, Anonymous leaked all of her personal information to the Internet.



In my opinion people in Anonymous are the best example of what happens when people think they are anonymous...They act like dicks.

Sometimes I Play Video Games: Fallout New Vegas

This has been a game that I have been waiting for since Fallout 3 came out in 2008, after putting an almost 100 hours I feel like I am to review it, and can honestly say this game is a broken piece of s#:t.

What makes this game broken you ask? Well off the top of my head

1. The game crashes once every give or take 30 min

2. Some times the ground decides that it no longer wishes to be solid, so I fall through it in to an blackness forever without dying.

3. When I walk to a room a fire my shot gun every item in the room floats to the ceiling, and stays there.

4. While wondering the wasteland I have been killed by plants that randomly spawn.

5. Followers in this game can not die, ever.

6. Never mind they can die by falling through the ground or randomly floating into space.

7. I picked up my game at Game stop so I got a special gun, I put a mod on this gun and now there is a red box with an explanation mark, this is because the gun was never modeled in Pre-production. This also stops me from being able to use the gun.
GAME BREAKER(kinda)

Surprisingly though, even with all of these bugs the game is awesome, like really awesome. The game keeps everything that I liked about Fallout 3 and put everything I liked from Fallout 1 and 2. The game looks exactly like Fallout 3, but set in the west coast like in 1 and 2. The trait system is also back from Fallout 1 and 2. This makes your character far more customizable, in this game if you want to you can play as the 8 ft tall Neanderthal with 0 intelligence, you can also play as the weakling with 100 percent intelligence, its up to you. Your not playing as the faceless character that you played as in Fallout 3.

Adding factions to the game in theory sounds like a good idea, choose witch group you want to side with and help them out. Except every thing I do in this game pisses some one else off, like pisses them off enough to send people to kill me. Here's another bug, the people that they send to kill you don't walk up to you or anything, they spawn behind you at random times and shoot you. Rad. Another change that they made in this game was making it so that you can't be god. You can't hit level 20 and have nothing kill you. In this game 4-5 shots your dead. End of story.

Hardcore mode is also something new that they added to this game. In hardcore mode you have to sleep, you have to eat and you have to stay hydrated, or else you die, game over. Sounds fun huh?...Yeah, F**k that.

Overall if you liked Fallout 3 you might like it after it gets patched in a few months, just play Fallout 3 till than.