Not only this, youtube has changed their site’s design as well. I changed it for a day, realized I hated it, and switched it back to the old version, but like facebook this new design will be mandatory for all users on a certain day. I have also noticed that google is playing around with different looks too.

Now let me go on a personal rant here for a second.  I am starting to get irritated because they seem to paint it up like these changes are for the purpose for making it user friendly, but is it? Highly doubtful. In the past week, I started noticing youtube being plastered with flashing and moving ads all over the place, as if ads and commercials in the videos aren’t bad enough. I started digging and sure enough I found articles about how the changes are really because they are trying to figure out ways for better ad placement (more in your face ad placement, easier for them to make money).

Reading the comments in these articles are usually never surprising with comments like “Do we really have a right to complain when these sites are still free? Running ads are what keeps it all free for us.”  And yeah, I totally get that. I’m not saying that should be completely done away with, but sometimes I honestly feel I would rather pay a small fee to browse a clean page free of ads than to have to fish for the content I am looking for  in a pool of ads. They can only go so far before people will stop using the site all together.

What do you think of the changes being made to facebook and youtube? Do you like the changes and do you care about the ads they run? 

Unfortunately, I rarely hear people muster up the gull to that kind of thinking. I don’t know why. It’s not going to kill them! Maybe it’s denial. Maybe it’s ego. Maybe it’s something else. But whatever it is, it has to stop. People around you don’t want to be blamed for your mistake. They don’t want you to take your anger out on them. They don’t want you to pull their attitudes and moods down with your own. They don’t want to feel screwed over when you do stupid things, and they aren’t always going to be there to help bail you out after they repeatedly try to warn you about things.

(Note that when I say YOU, I am talking in general, not to someone specific).

You think your life sucks? Well fine. Did it ever occur to you to stop and think about what *you* could have done to contribute to it and what *you* can do to maybe fix it? You have a lot more power to change your life than what you are willing to accept. I for one am tired of people expecting happiness and good fortune to just fall in their laps and never take responsibility for their own unhappiness. You won’t ever be happy if you think you are nothing but a victim of life’s bad karma. There is no magical fairy that is going to come swoop down and give you the life you think you so rightfully deserve.

No one is holding you back but yourself!
No one is keeping you where you are but yourself!
No one can pull you out of your misery but yourself!

You have to stop and realize the bad choices you are making (and I’m sure there are quite a few if you are the average person), and fix those choices and turn it around to your advantage. I think I have touched on a similar idea to this before, and again, I’m not saying that bad things don’t happen to good people once in a while. They do of course, but not with everything.

Own up to your mistakes. Learn from them and move on. Just something to think about.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to hate on tumblr users. Do your thing, it’s cool. I’m just saying that I don’t consider it real blogging. Then again, maybe I am just being picky because I am an aspiring writer and more about words. And I get that not everyone is internet savvy. I myself once had a xanga page, livejournal, freewebs, angelfire, and all those little beginner sites that sweeped the internet. This is most likely the same type of idea.

What are your thoughts on tumblr?

I’m not going to lie that I have done this a few times (few, meaning less than what I can count on my hands) back when myspace was cooler than facebook, but I quickly ordered myself to knock it off after I saw friends making nearly the same posts and finding myself laughing at how attention desperate they were being. Now I hate myself for doing that, ever. Ick. But attention seeking is exactly what it is. And what pisses me off more than anything is that with many of the offenders, when you ask them what’s wrong, they will say they can’t talk about it or they complain about people getting into their business. Wtf? If you can’t talk about it or don’t want people to ask you about it, then don’t post it. At all! Don’t even hint about it. You cannot post hints about something and then demand your personal life to be kept private because that is so hypocritical.

These people are often the drama queens in real life too. They always seem to be arguing with someone, or in some sort of crisis at all times, and then they see facebook as a perfect opportunity to maximize on the drama and attention they need. I’ve seen arguments within statuses and comments about pretty much everything personal you can think of, when they could have been sending the messages privately, they chose to make it public. It’s pretty ridiculous.  I’m so sick of it, and this is why I have a love/hate relationship with facebook, because I can’t stand the drama and the attention pleas, and many times the friends of theirs who enable their bull too.

“I’m going to delete my facebook forever!” (Yeah, until tomorrow)

“I hate men! I’m done with them.” No, you’re not. Two hours laters “I luuuuv my bf 4eva!” (God shut up!)

Single, in a relationship, single, engaged, married, single…from one person all in one week…is just fucking stupid. Just pick one and keep it there.

The fighting within status messages…just text them privately please.

…… If you are under 18, this behavior is expected in my opinion. But if you are older than that, it’s unacceptable.

And many people say,” Just hide that person.” Well that’s a good point. Yeah I can, and I probably will. But if I have to hide someone from seeing their updates, it’s because they are being god damned annoying, and they need to stop. It takes a lot for me to be annoyed by people, and even more for me to say something about it. The point is, why should I have to hide them from my news feed? No one should be made to feel annoyed enough to have to hide a that person. People need to just stop  living their roller coaster soap opera through facebook. That is all.

Opinions are welcome, as always.

Apparently it’s been seen as racist because the black woman is standing under the before and the white woman is under the after, as in dark skin is bad and white is good.

Really? I mean, really???? When I first saw this ad, I did NOT see anything racist with it until I started reading comments as to why it *could* be interpreted that way. I saw it as three young women with different ethnicities all modeling as the “after” photo, since all of them seem to have smooth skin. So did I see it as racist? Nope. In fact, it kinda pisses me off that people are freaking out about this because some people seriously seem to look for racism in everything.

Planned Parenthood says the bill could leave as many as 22,000 patients without access to Pap tests, birth control and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

The governor’s office said the law will affect 7 entities in Indiana that have a total of 34 locations in 21 counties.

These seemingly small state issues often fly below the radar, and then we’re all surprised when cutting Planned Parenthood is #1 on the national GOP’s agenda. So let’s do something, yeah?

1. Contact Mitch Daniels. If you’re in Indiana, contact your state rep and urge them to vote against this bill.
2. Spread the word. Retweet, reblog, tumbl, post to your Facebook wall, whatever.
3. Donate to Planned Parenthood of Indiana — and do it under Mitch Daniels’ name.

Let’s stop this in its tracks.

Mmmmkay. Here’s what I think. Woman beating aside, he is still acting out violently to express his emotions and there is NO excuse for it. He can apologize all he wants, it’s falling on deaf ears at this point. That type of behavior is not ok or normal, especially not for a grown ass man who has supposedly been through anger managment, which seems to be unsuccessful so far. This was the second offense of irrational emotional outbursts from him since his comeback, the other involved a homophobic slur he posted via twitter.

It really disturbs me that some people seem to think that it’s ok to destroy a room, throw a chair through a window, or punch walls. It’s really, really not. I used to think it was normal for most men to be that way, but my eyes have opened to the reality of it all. Maybe when a boy is 16 and he is pissed off at the world like a lot of little boys are, and you know his hormones are like a roller coaster, it guess it’s bound to happen once or twice. But after a certain age and it’s happening repeatedly, it’s just simply unacceptable. That’s when it stop becoming male hormones and it becomes a serious issue. And then they say, “Oh well he’s just taking his anger out on objects, not people, so it’s not as bad.” Yes, it IS still bad. Don’t people realize that the men who beat their wifes, girlfriends, and children are exactly the ones who start off by throwing furniture around and breaking stuff? If a man gets angry for whatever reason and takes it out like Chris Brown did in his dressing room, he is likely to hit his woman as well. He is no better than that! It is the number one red flag of a man who is a wife beater.

The point is, Chris Brown is not acting like a man and he obviously needs a lot more help. A real man can control his anger. A real man can find a better way to deal with his emotions. It doesn’t matter what he is angry about. There’s nothing in the world that could have heppened to him for him to justifably act out that way.

A man is not defined by his testosterone, muscles, or his ability to destruct, but by his ability to rise above violence.

Hopefully be gets the help that he needs.

What happened to the likes of good shows from the old days. Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Fresh Prince, the whole TGIF lineup, Roseanne, Married With Children, Unsolved Mysteries, I Love Lucy, etc. There are pretty much none to hardly shows like that being made anymore. Tragic.

What were some of your old favorite shows?