Category: the Rant Board
Ok, I debated with my self about whether or not I should post this, but since someone made a she can't read remark on the myspace.com site, thought maybe someone could relate. I have been on myspace.com site for about, yes, about 3 days, I'm not precise, because I don't remember exactly what day it was when I joined. I went in on a forum for general discussion, and all I wanted to do was ask if there were any forums for people 40 and older. I told them I had been on the sight for about a week and 3 days, and i was just looking for a place tohave clean chat with folks my age. All I wanted was to have my question answered yay or nay, but no. One person has to get really picky and ask me why didn't I just say a weekand 3 days, when I say abouta week and 3 days, it sounded like I wasn't surewhen I joined. Another person said,"it says in her profile she can't read, soshe can't read what we're saying." I asked them where in my profile did it say I couldn't read. I said I was blind and using screen reading software. Oh well, never mind what else I said, point is, I got out of there. And another thing, when I log on to the sight, it says hello tterr. I go as terry on there, but right above the the topic title, it had gostabrabbits. That's go stab rabbits. I swear, I did not put that there.There wasn't any place that told me to choose a user name, but when I entered to the subject line to read the replies, it did list me as Terr. I'm trying to get a friend on there, who has some vision, but that type the letters in the picture is almost impossible for him. He finally got the right letters in there, but then it said his email address was already in use, and that's not true, because he had just joined it. I sent him an invite link, because if you join through an invite link, you don't have to go through that type the letters in the picture thing, and that person is automatically added to your friends list. I was told the user was already onmyspace. I wrote the owner of the site, Tom, who is automatically added to your friend list when you join it. I wrote him yesterday, and so far I have not heard from him yet. I told my friend about the experience I had with those folk in the general disussion forum, and he said he didn't know if he would join it or not. If I can't get him or any other blind people on it, I'm done with that site, and I won't be recommending it to anyone.
wonderwoman
hmmm never heard of that site. will have to go check it out :)
never heard of it. sure it's pretty cool though
Never felt the urge myself as the blood would be too difficult to clean up...
sorry that happened to you, but dont worry about it. the people who said that are insecure with themselves, and they have to bring others down to make themselves feel better. i say just forget about that site, and stay here, or wherever you feel most comfortable.
Thanks love for all, I must say, compared to myspace.com, this place is a breeze. There are a few nice people here, all things considered, whereas I don't think there are any nice people on myspace.com. I'm going over there to see if I get a response from Tom, the site owner, and see if he has any suggestion about the problem my friend and i are having getting him on the site. If I don't hear from him soon, and if he decides he doesn't want to join, think I will be canceling my account. I don't know about many of the younger groups on hi5, because I mostly post to the over 40 groups, but there are some nice people in the 40+ age groups, so maybe there are some nice people in the younger groups as well. I am on one chat group, but I think everyone else is youngerthan me by 20 years or so, and since they're all sighted, no blind people on there except me, I don't think we'll have anything in common, so I'll probably be leaving that group. At least on here, young or older, if we're blind or visually impaired, we all have that in common, but on a group where thereare all teenagers and 20 somethings, who have no disabilities, I feel so out of my depth. Thanks love for all,
wonderwoman
I'm a member, but I find the site is kinda a pain in the ass for JFW. But alot of my friends are on it, so I just stick to private messages and profiles on there. Try going under the link to edit your profile, maybe that'll fix whatever problem you had, also it might be an "avetar" (I think that's how you spell it) so under your profile make sure no avitar is selected. Anyway, if you need more help just catch me on aim or msn and I'll try to walk you through it. <smile> hope that helped.
thanks so much for the offer midnight princess, but since I don't have any other blind folk to invite, and noone my age, i may not be staying on it too long. depends on whether or not I get a message on there from the site owner about his problem. I don'tthink the problem he's havingg has to do with a profile, because he'd just joined, and hadn't had time to create a profile. I'll just have to see how things go. So far I'm just not getting anywhere with that site. I don't like the way groups are listed either. There is just a huge category under each main group listing, and no smaller category. and when I did a search for blind, hoping some blind folk had started their own group, it just listed the most popular groups, which had nothing to do with the subject I was looking for, and under list groups by name, there was just nothing there. hi5 is a bbit more straightforward, and will tell you there is no group in this category. I did a search for blind people, and it returned with a groups that said something about how they were short on morrals, and they made fun of deaf people and blind people, because we couldn't see them laughing at them, yuk. I just go on there long enough to see if I've got a response from the site ownerr about how to help him get on it, then I log off.
wonderwoman