it’s like a disease, but better.

i don’t twitter.  i didn’t quite get it.  just a site with lots of status updates?  i have a hard enough time trying to think of one for my facebook page.

but plurk.  plurking is like walking into a room with friends engrosed in conversations with their friends and being able to jump in on any one of them.  or all of them.  at once.  even if they were started yesterday.  it’s weird.  but addictive.  you can see my lil plurk widget there to the lower right of my page.

now, seeing as i only have 3 friends on plurk, it’s like me walking into a room with these 3 people and jumping in on THEIR convesations.  that, and i have lots of convos with myself, because i’m crazy.  or not.  regardless, if you plurk and you would like to friend me, cool.  if not, cool.  whatever.  i suppose it would be more fun if i had more friends on plurk.

but what’s the deal with the name?  perhaps this is just the time we live in.  all the words have been used up, but new things are being invented every day, so new words too, i guess.  “plurk” sounds like a mash of “pluck” and “lurk” which gives me images of someone hiding behind a barn watching chickens meet their maker.  but that’s just me i guess.  i’m sure there’s (not) some greater meaning behind it.  maybe that’s why at this stage in the game i have a choice between a headless ham or an armless duck on my page.