Somehow in my daily Googling antics, I stumbled across a cute and interesting blog. I read the latest post, chuckled a bit, and thought to myself, "Wow! This girl seems so much like me!" Over the next few days, the blog stuck with me. A few days later, I found myself searching it out again. When I returned to the page and read her latest post, I again beamed with excitement in seemingly find my mental "twin."
Crazy, I know... But for weeks now, I've been following this girl's personal blog. She writes of her family and friends and always has a pleasant tone in her writing. I even recently found out she's preggo with twins! How exciting! She's just so cute! She also frequently embeds scripture verses along with her posts! I love it! So, I took the leap.......... and "Followed" her, knowing full-well she has no idea who I am.
I remember going home that day and announcing to Patrick that I have a new best friend. One I've never met or talked to and one that has no idea I exist either. Very strange.... but so exciting and adventurous at the same time! Too bad she's a girl and I'm married... seems like a wonderfully romantic way to meet someone - although, I've never met her, nor said a word... so I suppose it doesnt really get you that far. But doesnt it just seem like a perfect lil romantic movie setting?!
I have to confess that I love reading her blogs and feeling like I'm one of her close friends. Oh the fictious way social networks have of making you feel like a close personal friend to those who you'ven never spoken to or seen. I kinda feel like a stalker, but it's harmless, right? :)
So, in the spirit of stalker love - here's a true love story about a couple who met and fell in love thanks to Flickr. Apparently the couple had never met but found that their photos posted on Flickr had striking similarities. They began photoshopping themselves into the other's pictures to make it appear as if they were physically together during the photoshoot, but in actuality the photos were taken at 2 different places across the world! One in England and the other in North Carolina! How crazy is that?!? So... long story short - they start chatting and getting to know each other more and more as time goes on. Eventually they decide to meet up. They fall in love and now spend their time creating cool photos from the SAME place!
Check it out for yourself! Really cool photos, especially considering each was re-created from the other side of the world then photoshopped in! Click here for the full news story- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29164894/.
All their photoshopped creations can be seen here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aknacer/sets/72157605881081844/
We're Home // Summertime
9 years ago
3 comments:
AHH how funny! I also follow blogs of people I don't know and find myself knowing there daily life. Before he got super popular I read this guy's super personal blog about his wife being preggo and then she ended up dying the same day the baby was born... I used to ball at my desk reading his daily struggles and seeing the baby grow up! like you said, the silly things the blog world makes us do. I would love to know the link to this best friend of yours!!
Here's the link to my "friend's" blog site - http://taylorandjosh.blogspot.com/
Who's your favorite person to follow and the link? Oh! And I definitely to see that sad one too! :)
I wish there was a better way to see other blogs on this thing or find people you know like on Facebook. I'm not too impressed with the "Blogs of Note" thing on the dashboard or the "Next blog" link - that's all garbage mostly.
Just recently i did the "reader" feature on google and it had a few suggestions of blogs. it was completely random and i have no idea how it really works- but i've managed to set up my other blogs on the reader feature and now i can view everyone at the same time. you should play around on that.
and yes, i agree, i wish there was an easier way to find and read.
the sad blog is Matt Loglin (or logelin) and i have no read in a while. when i first started reading he had all his blogs up, even ones right before she died (maternity pics, countdown to the baby, ect- SO SAD) but now that he is so popular he's chosen to hide all those really painful post. his site is mattloglin.com
i'll think about your question and link some of my favorites over to you!
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