On Blast/Creepers
I’M WARNING YOU IN ADVANCE THIS IS A REALLY WEIRD BLOG POST. I’m a very hypocritical / oxymoron type of person.
So. Facebook/Twitter/Being part of a minority community where everyone kinda knows one another and if they don’t they’ve seen your picture off someone else’s fb profile – it seems like everyone is a creeper these days. I am sure quite a few of you will relate to what I’m about to say below!
Lately it seems like every time I go out someone either texts me a “hey what are you doing on 92” or messages me on Facebook after (EVEN WHEN I’M ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY - (Toronto!) haha but I guess that’s understandable) or comes up to me 2 days later with how some random people at a random place who knows that that person they are talking to knows me mentions that they saw me somewhere to them. What I really hate is the “hey were you at Walmart the other day?”. Um… yes.. probably? “Oh that’s so funny I swear I ALWAYS see you at Walmart!”…
It makes me want to throw my phone at a wall and walk around with a scarf on my face. Like WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO ARE YOU?! WHAT DAY DID YOU SEE ME? N then I sit there and try and flashback like what was I wearing?, who was I with? Was I doing something stupid… of course I was doing something stupid I’m ALWAYS doing something stupid (dancing, playing with a toy, making funny faces etc) and I get into this intense dialogue with myself about how I should behave more normal in public.
Heheahah actually… I DO WALK AROUND WITH A SCARF TO MY FACE. Not because I think I’m nuts, but just because I feel cozy and I like the smell and feel of my scarves. I ALWAYS wear scarves. They’re like a teddy bear or blankets. I just find myself randomly doing that and then I realize 2 min later and I’m like “oops”. Plus I feel cleaner like I’m not actually breathing in pukey public transit smells (I’m on public transit a lot) and I feel like I’m getting less UV rays.
I don’t understand why people feel the need to message me asking me if I was at X or Y location. If you SAW me there, then why wouldn’t you just say hello in person? If you don’t KNOW if you saw me there because you don’t really know what I look like in real life then should you really be messaging me in the first place? I’m a friendly person, please, if you see me, just come say hi, don’t message me on Facebook or Twitter after. It makes me feel weird to know that someone watched me when I didn’t know they were – I would really just rather not know.
I add everyone who sends a friend request as there was this one time where I had to accept all friend requests for a Much Music thing I was trying out for a long time ago:
and ever since then there was no going back and finding alll the people and deleting them - its insane so I’ve just put everyone on a list and accept everyone espesh because I don’t have a lot of personal things on there anyway. If I hadn’t wanted to be a broadcaster or whatever then I would have just kept my fb to family and friends. But then I see a lot of people who have like 1000+ friends and I’m sure they go through the same thing I go through but I’m just like I actually wanted to be in the public eye – why in the world do you want to be on blast if your career choice is like – teaching? Lol.
It’s great when it comes to helping increase stats for my blog and to be able to connect and have a bigger platform to communicate but it sucks when you get weird messages. Like it’s SO CREEPY to know that someone out there saw me somewhere and I don’t know what they look like! I don’t look at people’s profiles on Facebook if I don’t know them. You can add me but I’m not going to sit and check out your profile page because I’m usually on Facebook on my phone! So… when people start commenting incessantly or eventually catch my eye and make me go: “Who IS this Pinky Gill person anyway” I click on their page and lo and behold do you know what inevitably happens?
I find out that that person who controls that page doesn't do ANYTHING other than comment or like MY stuff. Their newsfeed is just filled with what they did on my page :| with one or two comments to other people on there and they usually have under 50 friends. IT’S STUFF LIKE THIS THAT FREAKS ME OUT AND MAKES ME WRITE BLOG POSTS ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
It really freaks me out and I just don’t understand. Are they fake profiles? If so why would anyone need to make a fake profile to be a friend of mine on Facebook when I accept everyone anyway? It’s not like their comments are mean or hateful that they need to hide behind a fake?
Also, some of these people are actual real people I’ve met – at a lounge, or at a dinner. Once I met someone from a different country for five minutes at a crowded public place and all I gave was my first name (no spelling) and they FOUND ME ON FACEBOOK. I just want the world to go back to what it was like before where you can meet a random person and have an awesome five min conversation and go “well hey it was nice meeting you” and not actually expect to ever see or hear from that person again.
Trust me, if I WANTED YOU TO CONTINUE KNOWING ME I WOULD MAKE IT HAPPEN. I AM A MAKE IT HAPPENER. I would tell you to add me on Facebook, or I would get your number, or I would give you mine, or we would add each other on BBM. I’ve been called F1, because I can speed meet a ton of people and network. Exception to the rule: when I am completely enamoured by you. Then I am way. too. shy. I revert to the “omg I’m a little Singaporean immigrant chick with big ears” person inside me a
If I am enamoured by you I want you to do the chasing and won’t give you anything to go on because if you were really interested, I’m sure you can put in the effort to find me and I’m probably too shy to do anything about it myself anyway :$
Of course attention is flattering, yes I understand that I put myself in these positions I have Twitter, I have Facebook, I have a blog, I choose to come on tv, but you just think that in your head people will be cool. The “creepers” that I keep talking about, they’re not crazy dps… they’re “normal” people with lives and friends that just have a creeper streak in them… like me. I have creeped more people through FB than any of you probably but the DIFFERENCE IS – I DON’T FREAKING MESSAGE THEM LIKE HEY I SAW YOU HERE AND THERE. I CREEP ALONE. IN PRIVATE. SECRETLY. That is how true creepers should creep. Learn from me people.
Adios.
