titan69 Does anyone still use BP or have they all moved on to other sites? - July 12, 2011 add/view comments (0) |
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Welcome to Titan`s place on the Planet.
It`s my own Mt. Olympus where the Titans of the Universe can still reign as gods. Friends Are like A Box Of Chocolate A buddy of mine was cleaning out his friends list and made me think about what friendship really is. The word friend is used by so many people to describe so many different types of relationships. People tell you they are your friend after only knowing you for just a minute. How many times have you sat at a bar and by the second drink the stranger beside you is your new best friend. We throw the word out more than Ice Cube throws out dollar bills at the Player's Club. We all have friends. Its only human nature to seek out people with similar likes and become friends. Once we have our friends, we tend to categorize them based on the closeness of our relationship. We all have that good friend to call in a time of need. The flip side is there are friends that are cool to chill with but you know not to call if you really need a friend. That brings me to the Internet. We all have friends list on our page. I have well over forty people on my list and that doesn't come close to many people on the net. Before I cleaned out my messenger list, I had over two hundred people on it. Most I chatted with on a monthly basis, but we never talked about anything important. You know the messages "hello stranger", "its been awhile", or "what's new with you?" I'm guilty of sending them out myself. These are the people you only talk to on-line. I'm not talking about that friend or family member you talk to when you see each other on-line. You talk to them off-line as much as you do on-line. I'm talking about those friends you have just on the web. That person you will never meet. It may be because of something like distance from each other. I've got an on-line buddy in Jersey that's got my back if I'm ever in his area and the same goes if he is in NC. Hell...I'm closer to him than I am to the people on my list from my own area. The last time I heard from some of them was when I got the "I would like to stay connected to you on 360...." message from them. I recently asked some people on 360 how many people on their friends list do they actually stay in touch with. Most said it was less than ten percent. Some of your friends you just know it's just going to be an on-line relationship. You talk all the time, but only on the web. They are willing to tell you their deepest and darkest secrets because I guess they know you will never have to face each other. You know a side of them that even their love ones will never know. I guess its kinda like going to confession or maybe its a form of therapy. They get to tell a secret that they have no chance of it getting out. You think you know them. You IM with them for hours at a time. Sure you might know of their indiscretion against a spouse or loved one or their curiosity to try an alternative lifestyle, but do you really know them. The Internet has added so many different and new parameters to the meaning of friendship. I still find it hard to decide how to take some people that come into my life on the web. I always say if Forrest Gump and I were sitting in the park and a new person shows up, and I have to yell,"Run Forrest...Run!!!!" It's time to move on to the next person. I'm not here looking for some quick hook-up......only for networking and chatting with old and new friends. BP has changed alot since I first became a member. It has become more of a free on-line dating service than a black community set up for networking and community affairs. I`m the father of two beautiful girls and a husband to a beautiful wife. I'm a huge sports fan and in my free time you can find me cheering on my favorite teams (Panthers, Lakers, Canes....) I also love to cook and have been told that I have some skills in the kitchen. I've made some good friends on BP over the years and enjoy chatting with them from time to time. Thanks for stopping by, and please sign my guestbook. . I would love to hear from you. Click the icon above, and send me an instant message on Yahoo. |
