Fanfiction.net - One of the first pages I joined. Fanfiction.net is basically an online libary, where members upload their fanfiction and others can comment, or review it. (fanfiction is, as the name implies, fiction written by fans of a specific "canon", that means, a universe from a book, game, cartoon, comic, tv-show or movie.) The page also offers individual forums, created by users, as well as communties, where writers can upload stories of a certian kind.
Among fanfiction writers, Fanfiction.net is know as The Pit, due to the amount of stories of low quality. This is again a result of the open acces to the page, and the free acess, making it easy for all ages to use it.
But if you know where to look, the page can offer great entertainment from great writers.
Deviantart - An art based page, where people opload all sorts of crafting, from drawings, to oilpaintings, digital art, sculptures, pixel pictures, photo and stories. As well as recive concrit and comments.
Here you can choose a free membership, or a paid subsciption. The subscription gives you more tools overall on the pages, removes the advetising banners, and gives you the opportunity to sell prints of your art. A nice feature of the page is that at each upload, it gives you the choice of putting up a copyright statement, making you able to protect your art.
Many professional artist will use the place as a way of gaining popularity and selling art, but the page also offers great oppotunity of social interaction. There are chat pages, and constantly contests, either made by administraters, but more often by the users themselves.
Bleeping Computer - A forum that offers help and guides to computers in all.
I have to admit that I am almost never present, but this page has saved my computer from breaking down countless times, so I do feel that they need the praise.
The admins are nice and helpful, and the forums are almost always up to date with the newest information, both on virus and antivirus programs.
World of Warcraft - Now, most people would possible not think that this belongs here, being a game and all. But Online games, especially mmorpgs, has a uniqe social interaction. The players have to work together in order to get the fullest out of the game, they trade items, almost as in the real world, and most players are connected in Guilds. A guild is a group of people who often play together, they have a private chat, special clothing, and many other perks that can only be achived in a guild. Most guilds will have a forum on the internet, where rules and activeties, the playstyle and the goal of the guild is discussed.
Many guilds are based on a specific country, and players will often meet in real life.
Facebook -I don't really think this place needs and introduction, honestly you would have to have lived beneath a rock, without any internet acess not to know this place.
Personally? I severly dislike it, and deeply regret opening a profile. I can see the appeal of the place, it it so easy to find old friends, and that feature I like. My dislike stems from the fact that all the features on the page, is paid with my personal information, not that is really will harm me, but I dislike the very consept. I would have prefered a paid subsribtion, and them be free of all the spybots, as all the applications truly are.
Youtube - The place where all is seen. I am still fairly new there, and mostly using it to keep an eye on my favorite users, such as Oxhorn, who you can find on the bottom of this blog.
youtube is a grey arena to me, there have been so much talking about copyrigts here, and I do se the point from both sides. Most fan made videos are harmless, and can often work as a free advetising to the musicans and cartoons, but I do believe that you should always be respectful to the source.
An interesting trend I have noticed, is that lesser known bands have begun to use youtube to broadcoast their music. Somewhere I think they are to ones to make the fullest out of the page.
Global PokédeX Plus - Now this is a newer addition to the net, an adopties page. Basically these pages gives the user a string of code. On the users page, this code will look like a pixel picture, always beginning with an egg. As other users look at the "egg" or better yet, interacts with is, the egg will get points, once it reaches a specific number, the egg will hatch, often into a dragon, a bird, or in this case, a Pokémon. The "creature" will still grow as long as other people interacts with it.
As such, it is the goal to get as many people to look at your Pokémon as possible, this can be done in many ways, depending on the specifick page, but the most common way it to place a link to the base page, on varius forums, or as here---->
Libarything - Still new to the place, as I have said ealier, but I am getting there. And so far I like it, though there is a few confusing moments (Just how is it I add my favorite writers? The page keeps sending me back and forth)
And of cause, I am here, obviously
I do have a one or two more places where I am member, but these have been badly neglegted, and I have no interest in using them, as most internet users will mostly have
