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But I also hang with my group of friends … most of the time and we pretty much go to Eldersburg Elementary at night and play on their playground and look up at the stars. Our deceptively low-tech town is home to more than 450 MySpaces, 100 Xangas, 40 LiveJournals and DeadJournals, and about 25 Bloggers, and those are just from people who decided to list themselves under Eldersburg. On these hundreds of pages, there is a widely undiscovered slice of Eldersburg. It is here that the true quirks of our supposedly boring town come out. After browsing through just a dozen journals and blogs, it’s apparent that our 42.1 square miles of town is much less Eldersburg, but more than ever the E-burg that has been slang for so long. WE LEFT AND WENT TO BURGER KING WITH MY HEAD DOWN SINCE IT WAS STORMING AND I WAS FREAKING OUT. WE CAME BACK TO MY HOUSE && YEAH, LAYED ON MY BED & WATCHED THE LIGHTNING WHICH FREAKED ME OUT ALOT AND I WAS LIKE OMFGGGG. The E-burg journalers are mostly teens and college students, though it is not too uncommon to see a mother writing about her baby’s first steps or an adult who started their journal back in college and kept up with it. Journals are used for story telling, ranting, picture posts, advertising parties, linking to web videos and jokes, and reflection. I was reading one of my old journals and it's so cool to look back on my life and have it all recorded...which is why I'm going to start updating again. Maybe something interesting will happen to me ;) The writings are personal, casual, usually error-ridden, and often times incriminating. For this reason, many journalers choose to “friends lock” their entries. This is where the E-burg residents monologue about their noisy neighbors, how their shoes that got stuck to the floors of the Carrolltowne movie theater during X-men 3, or what a terrible day they had. These are obviously some of the things you don’t want your mother to be reading. the only good part is when it was over it was awesome cause we went to taco bell and nick was in the ttrunk of nates car and it was spifarifical man Usually, though, at a certain point in journaler’s life, they switch to the blogs to keep up with co-workers and distant relatives. In general, blogs are kept to a certain level of formality. I’m trying not to generalize, but blogs are sort of like the newsletters you get at Christmastime from your relatives, only on a weekly basis. Blogs are good reads, if nothing else. Since we moved into this neighborhood in August their friendship has truly "blossomed." And I mean that literally. Rarely does a day go by that we don't come home to a flower Shelby has left on the front door for Jake to find. And then there is MySpace, which isn’t a blog or a journal at all. It’s an extended personal ad, more or less, whether you want to advertise yourself or not. MySpace transcends all groups of people. I’ve seen people as young as 10 on the site and as old as 60, but the usual age range is 15 to 30. By browsing through these pages, joining groups, and posting some of your own life, you can find yourself with dozens of new friends and invitations to great last-minute events in Eldersburg that never make it to the weekly paper for one reason or another, such as this announcement a girl made on a public part of the site, supposedly directed towards her friends: i'm having a sex toy party at my apartment on june 28 (a wednesday) at 7pm. i need at least 12 girls to come. it's a blast. my friend lauren and i went to one last night, and it was hilarious. Eldersburg has its own niche on the web, full of interesting people and experiences. If one night you find yourself grasping for something to do in Eldersburg, search through some user pages on Xanga, or post a bulletin on MySpace. Read what journalers have found to do in The Burg; I’m sure it’s better than bothering the Denny’s staff at 2 a.m. And last thursday we went out to the construction site over by the school and we could tell that people had already [messed] it up pretty bad but that didn’t stop us from [messing] it up worse hahaha . . . i love eburg. Eldersburg Blog Links Remember
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