Showing posts with label multipliers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label multipliers. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2008

After Effect...





After the DELETE brouhaha, I have already moved on.  I let out the steam that’s been building up from past experiences which made me scrutinize thoroughly those people who had been browsing my multiply pages.  Everything has been forgiven already, although it would take a long time when it comes to trusting some people from now on.

 

Apparently, my last post created awareness about customary dealings with contacts here in multiply.  It is a reflection of prevailing conditions in dealing with members within your network, the friendship that has gone sour, the resentment created, and the termination of what could have been a fruitful acquaintance.  X marks the spot, bull’s eye, hit the mark - call it what you want – the message I wanted to convey to all has been acknowledged by some of those who have seen and understand it.  I should have been gloating for all the encouragement and the congratulatory messages that have piled up in the comments, but I am not.

 

I noticed one thing in my page, aside from the confusion and the arguments within the thread replies.  I have been visited by the Customer Service Account of Multiply.  Call it paranoia or something, but as far as I have known, the Customer Service Account does not browse a particular page, unless somebody with malicious intent has reported it.  Earlier today, I discarded that notion since I think they just might want to check out how one such ordinary page from one ordinary guy will get about 400 + visits and 250 + comments, in just about half a day.  Maybe they just wanted to check out the instant internet traffic the page has created, or perhaps not.

 

It could have been that my title is of definite concern to them, since the formal intonation does attract attention immediately.  Or it could have been something else, some probability that I could not possibly accept, perhaps some retribution in my blog’s case, from people who may think that they were the object of the tirade that has been written beforehand.





I don’t know. You decide.





Wednesday, April 9, 2008

A Message to ALL Multipliers

Pakiusap lang naman.

 
Add us not because you like our posts, but because you like us.   Add us not because our posts makes you happy but because we make you happy.  Add us not because we are connected to your friend but because we are your friend.


Delete us because we did you harm.  Delete us because we have some ultra sensitive right-on-the-edge of pornography type of posts which are not for young people's eyes.  Delete us because we posts gross images sometimes.  Delete us because treated you like fools.  Or better yet delete us because we deserve it.


But if you deleted some contacts because they were in close contact with the person you hated the most, that is a sign of immaturity.  Or perhaps immature is a mild word.  Try bitter.  Or maybe even bitchiness, because perhaps you are bitching about the fact that we are friends with almost everybody here, including the person you despise.  Whatever arguments both of you had, we believe it has nothing to do with us, so why detach us from your list?


We greatly appreciate that we have been part of your circle of friends during this past years, or months, or days, but we suspect that we are just part of your "numbers' game".   An addition to flaunting your statistics of ever growing list of contacts.  But please, spare us of your bickering with other account holders who in some ways related to us only by affinity.  Ok we admit there must be a little attraction involved but we don't whine about how our contact acts in front of our PC monitor.  It is the characteristic, which is unique in every person, that binds us and helps endure the friendship.


We didn't add you because you looked hot in your bikini.  We added you because you're YOU!  Because you are unique, just like the rest of us.  We added you because we see something interesting in you, whether you're wearing Gucci or just plain galing Quiapo,  whether you're eating in Shangrila or on the outskirts of Ayala Avenue munching on squid balls, or whether you're partying in Embassy or just the common Sayawan sa Plaza.  The fact that we added you means a lot to us, and we value the interaction that has been exchanged all throughout.  We do not post items and comments to purely make fun, part of it is to break the barrier that usually surrounds those feeling unfamiliar and having added new acquaintances in their list.


So if you probably hate someone from our list, rest assured that we have nothing to do with it.  We are a collection of various people with various looks, and more importantly, with various attitudes.  For sure there will be somebody whose actions we do not like, and there will be people who do not like what we do, but we co-exist for the sake of camaraderie.  We sit down, drink, party, and talk like civilized people, yet we do not stab others in the back.  We do not succumb to peer pressures, especially those who dictates who should be in our friends' list.  We are what we are, and we offer friendship, nothing else.  So if you don't like the people we have to interact on a daily basis, delete us from your contacts.  Please do so, and don't be sorry for it.  We totally understand.  We don't like hidden agendas.  It's not even our loss.  Surely we will miss whatever interesting posts you have, but do remember we also provide entertainment, usable information, and unequaled amount of promotion without additional cost, and reciprocated with greater reward, that is having introduced to a lot of people how cool you would be in their list.  And we still have most of our friends beside us, and that's all that matters in the end.


So, who lost a lot in the end? We are certain it's not us.


from plorwaks & trueasiatic


Post Script:

This is a letter in general, meaning to everyone and even those we treat with distrust, and not about a particular person.  Although we regret the actions that were done prior and even after this blog, we stand dedicated to everything that we had written here, including the personal injustice committed to us.  We imply that everybody should take this post literally and not in any way use in distorting it for personal vendetta.  A blog is a personal manifestation of emotions in any form, and we gladly will accept reactions and comments as long as our statement will not be taken out of context.