I joined Plurk some time during June 2008 during the general hype on Twitter, thinking it was just another website for me to use a couple of times before abandoning. It’s got nothing to do with the service, but my general laziness when it comes to adopting new things – my friends have a hard time convincing me to join anything, even when it comes to simple things as joining forums, and I can be a bitch if someone needs a referral credit for something. An example is shown below.
Person: “Can you do me a massive favour and sign up for [blah] using my referral code?”
Me: “No.”
Person: “But it’s a [blah] website with [blah blah blahs]!”
Me: “Still a no.”
Person: *expletive*
However, being a natural sheep, I followed the tweeting crowd – or should that be baaing ‘herd’? – and signed up for Plurk. 
Baa.
I soon found out that Plurk was more interesting than it appeared to be. Almost everyone I was following on Twitter seemed to be signing up also, and I soon found myself in a little community of people, all getting used to this new website.
To be honest, I didn’t exactly warm to Plurk at first, muttering about its’ “fugly colour scheme” via Brightkite on Twitter – confused yet? I don’t know about you, but in my opinion, brown and blue will never go together, no matter how much you try and dress it up.
Anyway, long story short, I eventually grew to love it, ‘fugly colour scheme’ and all (probably because I changed it as soon as I could). I began plurking more and tweeting less, loving all the conversation a random plurk could manage to generate. One of the most important things I found, however, was the amount of new things I was involuntarily learning every day from plurkers. Like Twitter, plurkers shared links, but the fact that you could embed images and videos in plurks made me, a fickle person, feel more inclined to click them. Aside from the fact that I was getting Rickrolled more than ever *glares at @Tenebrous*, I learnt many useless useful things that will be embedded in my memory forever, courtesy of plurkers.
Recent Comments