It is very contradictory when think about my digital life being part of the new media writing trend...I sort of enjoy the convenience within, and I sort of hate the impetuous it brings.
I remembered my really first "writing" (Here 'writing' I considered is contributing one's own content to the internet) in new media experience is setting up my own Website about my comic drawing when I was around 12 or 13. Using Front Page as design software, I dedicated the website mainly to displaying my drawings. I remembered those days sitting in front of computers counting the visiting amount everyday happily. And I did get several comments in the small 'message book' I found as plug-in.
That website ends with the third year's bill - RMB 49.00 from 163.com. I became too lazy to went to post office and pay the bill by complicated mail process. And it was about the start of Year 2000. Good old days.
Now I found flicker's functioning pretty much the same as my little website back then. Just Flickr has more clicks and is free of charge...(-_-)
And here it is my link...if you don't mind:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingmonsters
Among all above I believe I love dounban.com the most. The (most of) trash talk and meaningless information shared by my classmates or friends (not that close of course) in Facebook and Renren.com makes me feel annoying. And the social news re-tweeted in Sina Weibo makes me feel information overload and exhausted.
But in Douban, it is much more comfortable. Because everything there is based on my choice and "common interest". For me Dounban seems like a combination of transitional website, blogging, mini blog, interest-based forums, and SNS.
I remembered my really first "writing" (Here 'writing' I considered is contributing one's own content to the internet) in new media experience is setting up my own Website about my comic drawing when I was around 12 or 13. Using Front Page as design software, I dedicated the website mainly to displaying my drawings. I remembered those days sitting in front of computers counting the visiting amount everyday happily. And I did get several comments in the small 'message book' I found as plug-in.
That website ends with the third year's bill - RMB 49.00 from 163.com. I became too lazy to went to post office and pay the bill by complicated mail process. And it was about the start of Year 2000. Good old days.
Now I found flicker's functioning pretty much the same as my little website back then. Just Flickr has more clicks and is free of charge...(-_-)
And here it is my link...if you don't mind:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingmonsters
And after saying Goodbye to my Website 1.0 life, I became a fan of Blogging. Of course I tried forums and chatroom as well, just to find they're not as concentrate as blog for me myself to speaking out my own opinion.
Why do I need to speak out? That's because I fell in love with two basketball players like crazy that time (I still love them now~oh my~). I so much want to collect every piece of information of them and share with the world hoping that someone else with the same fever towards they two as me might look at my blogs and I will know I'm not alone.
What is different from my web 1.0 experience is that this time I got a lot of comments from different people. It is a joy to know people's feedback. I draw and write about them and my net-friends who came visit love those creations. We communicate a lot and I met a lot of really good friends during this period. That was Year 2006~2009.
That blog is still here, sweet!>.< Just the last post is almost one year and a half ago...
After that period, I move more into college study and my time runs short. And it is then I met interest-sharing based website like Douban and mini blogs like Sina Weibo. I also met SNS such as Facebook and Renren (it is the mainland China version of Facebook). That's the Year of 2008 and 2009. Web 2.0, the read-write web starts to dominate the Internet world. And all those platform aim for providing a chance for people to express themselves meanwhile get comments from others.
Among all above I believe I love dounban.com the most. The (most of) trash talk and meaningless information shared by my classmates or friends (not that close of course) in Facebook and Renren.com makes me feel annoying. And the social news re-tweeted in Sina Weibo makes me feel information overload and exhausted.
But in Douban, it is much more comfortable. Because everything there is based on my choice and "common interest". For me Dounban seems like a combination of transitional website, blogging, mini blog, interest-based forums, and SNS.
Having all these sweet characteristics combined, douban becomes really entertaining as well as informative for me. For instance, here's a mini website called "Neo-classical" I fanned. This mini website blogs everyday about related paintings, photographs and articles which contains quite a lot knowledge.
And those friends I fanned because of same interest share nice things via "broadcasting" (the mini blog function) everyday as well. In a way, I will have the chance to know what people that I appreciate feel worth recommending. Isn't that wonderful?
In a conclusion, even though I can reflect my new media writing life in a relatively clear way, I still have that type of contradictory feeling towards it. It teaches me to look for new things actively and listen to others. It always about choosing the right tool. you got to know what you're expecting to gain when you write online.
I learn a lot through this, but at the same time I think I waste quite a lot of time on it. Since you know, browsing website is too convenient to be distracted. Maybe it's about controlling the balance, maybe I just need to be more self-desplined.
What's more, I think in the future when I try to run a studio or company, writing in new media form is definitely going to be something that I'll try to utilize a lot. Because I know it is powerful.
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