Keira-anne.com

When I was very young, I liked to write letters. I also liked to write short stories, notes, cards and especially took joy in jotting down my thoughts and feelings in my diary. I still remember what it looked like too: it had a cheap brass lock with a photo of Johnny Depp on the cover, clad in ripped jeans with the ‘21 Jumpstreet’ logo splashed on the brick wall behind him.

As I got older, and finally hit my teenage years, everyone started getting online with the World Wide Web. Everyone I knew was staking their claim at Hotmail with a clever e-mail address, and a few more found their online chat identity at ICQ (if you have to ask what that is, you’re too young to remember). At the time, blogs and online journaling seemed like a hugely “out there” idea, and only a select few moved from the concept of pen and paper to fingers and keyboard.

Photo: stevegarfield on Flickr

In fact, it wasn’t until many years later and I was in my early 20s that I, too, started to blog. This was in addition to the many so-called wonderful ways in which the internet allowed us to stay connected with those we know and reach out to new friends. Geocities, Friendster, Yahoo! Chat, MySpace, Classmates, Blogger, MSN Messenger, Facebook, WAYN - need I go on?

For most of our lives we got on just fine with paper stationary and telephones, so why now are we so heavily dependent on the internet?

With quite literally each passing day, I am starting to see the internet as more of a curse than a blessing. The very thing that makes getting in touch online so simple is also the same thing that exacerbates one of the biggest problems in human relations.

This topic has been cycling through my social circle a great deal as of late.

The online realm, in all its brilliance and downfalls, allows each person who logs on to appear, say, see and be all the things they choose to represent. Our names, e-mail addresses, location, appearance, ethnicity, sex and opinions can all be 100% fabricated. For every person who chooses to use this medium to contact with and express themselves to others in a manner that is entirely genuine, there is someone who exploits the anonymity of the internet to, essentially, act shitty and take zero responsibility for it.

Cyberspace requires absolutely no accountability.

So how can you weed out the gold from the ghastly? In truth, you can’t. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad; the pretty with the ugly. I suppose it’s true of all things in life and in relationships with others. As a friend recently wrote, maybe the best thing to do is surround your real life with those who are simply “kind hearted and supportive.” They’re the people who keep you grounded in a twisted world…whichever world that may be.

Becky messaged me this afternoon:

“I want to play that online geography game.”

I love geography.

“What online geography game?” I asked.

She sent me the link.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I’ve heard from more than a few people by e-mail in the last week or so, curious to know why their comments weren’t approved. For whatever reason, some of the comments weren’t going through Blogger and got sucked up by the vortex. Now that I’m on WordPress, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that commenting on posts will be much easier for you, the readers.

If you’ve had a comment approved on my “renovated” space, your future comments shouldn’t require moderation. Also, if you’ve sent a comment for the first time (or at all) and it hasn’t appeared on my site within 12 hours, please feel free to e-mail me [keira at keira-anne dot com] and I’ll see about getting that fixed for you.

Quite obviously, nothing on www.keira-anne.com is as it was. I packed up my boxes and moved over to WordPress and brought all of you along with me.

I owe a huge thank you to duanetheminx and Muggs for their amazing web skills that I’m totally in the dark about, and to Jack for making my site really, really ridiculously good looking. You guys are awesome!

Feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you think - I’d love to hear some feedback!

And don’t forget…tomorrow’s Wednesday, so you know what that means. *wink*wink*

I always find it so fascinating to check my site stats several times a day. Not because I care about my daily hits so much, but it’s even more intriguing to me to see not only where it is around the world people are viewing my blog from, but also to see how they find my site. Google will pick up key words from my blog and incorporate them into searches various people will do. Sometimes it’s more interesting than others…

Today my site was on the fourth page (meaning results 31-4o) of a Google search for “Vancouver Call Girls.”

Ouch.

Because today’s Wanton Wednesdays post isn’t done yet - or even started, actually (but check back for it in a couple of hours) - take a minute to post a comment and tell me where you’re from or who you are. The majority of my American readers surprisingly seem to come from the states of New York and California. Kinda glamourous if you ask me…

…that even I didn’t know about me.

- I have a sister named Ashley

- I have a friend that I go to Canucks games with named Bridg

- I live in Austin, Texas

- I make almost $100,000 per year

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