i wrote about this app a couple of months ago, when i had just started using it. i thought it was pretty cool. it was still really new to me. i had just started having consistent conversations with a few people. well fast forward to today, i am completely in love with this app.
unlike other social media formats (twitter, facebook, or instagram to name a few), you get a real feel for who these people you are interacting with are. why? because you are actually talking to them. carrying on conversations in real time, whether they are serious or complete off the wall bullshit, it is real. there is something about the human voice that is hard to fake.
i love my facebook page, don't get me wrong, but i feel like there is so much drama on facebook. it seems like there are many cryptically crafted messages that i can only imagine are posted to antagonize someone else. i have a couple of blip friends who talk about facebook frequently. one says that facebook is NOT a diary, be careful what you post. another comments often about people's immaturity on facebook, in and out of relationship, airing out their dirty laundry and so forth.
there doesn't seem to be that drama on blip. maybe it is because it is still relatively new and the backstabbing, two faced, nitty gritty hasn't had a chance to develop? that may sound funny, but i think when relationships are building, growing and becoming stronger we form alliances or loyalties and when we feel like they are being compromised or sabotaged in some way we jump in with guns drawn. so far i haven't experienced this on blip and i'm truly hoping that it doesn't come to that.
then we have twitter. i have one, but i am clueless on how it really works. there are these things called hashtags, i believe, but i don't know how one uses them. i don't understand how people find, follow, respond or interact in general with each other. twitter is an enigma to me. the only thing i post to my twitter account is my photos from instagram because there is a toggle switch that allows me to do so and the link to my blog when i post something new for the same reason, it is an option. i never go to the twitter application and see what others are doing. okay, i am total twitter failure, but i am okay with that.
on to instagram. this is a fun app. i love pictures. being able to see someones life through photographs is pretty darn cool. although you can only comment and ask questions, there isn't much else to do besides view.
which brings me back to blip. unexpectedly i have formed real friendships with people from all walks of life; different ages, different cultures, different beliefs, they live in other parts of our country and the world. we have been brought together through technology. we bounce off ideas, seek advice, enjoy a laugh, receive comfort, and rant and rave. there is a real sense of community among the "users". you get all of this through a free app, hard to believe huh?
the only thing that would be better would be to have face time relationships with these people. i'm not talking about the iphone function, i am talking being in the same physical space with my virtual blip family and round tabling. sometimes you just can't beat seeing the body language and expressions of the human you are talking to, but i hear their intent loud and clear on my favorite app.
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