I'm trying to help you out so can you stop being a twat

right.. first up.. thanks to a small friend of mine using a partciular sentence as her msn name i've had the lyric "oh my god you must be joking me, if you think that you'll be poking me" running round and round my head for 24 hours now - which is not only annoying but largely innaccurate, because even ignoring that fact that i'm a most definately poker rather than a pokee... let's be honest, it's not a sentence i could ever really stand behind, cos all someone really has to do is ask nice, and maybe give me a cake...i'm kind like that

second up... because i know you've all missed the reports on my sleeping patterns... the nightmares are getting worse and they are getting layered, last night i 'woke up' roughly every 15minutes in fear.. though most of these were simply waking from one dream to enter another.. it was altogether a very confusing exercise which i do not hope to repeat anytime soon... any remedies greatly received.. not that i mind nightmares.. i love to be scared.. but the waking up is playing havoc with my despite to be asleep as much as humanly possible

thirdly.. and please god hopefully lastly because i'm hungry... but i've started so i'll waffle.. i've been thinking about myspace [i know, the bullet is in the gun, the barrel is in my mouth... i may eat it] and more specifically the way people use it

i'l explain.. there are 4 primary ways in which myspace can be used to communicate with your 'friends'... these being message, comment, bulletin and blog.. and they all have their individual uses, one for private messages between individuals.. one for messages to an individual that you don't mind people 'over-hearing'.. one for a message you want to send out to all your friends, and finally one where you just saying stuff and who hears it, hears it

now i've never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the box.. actually that's a complete lie, i've claimed previously to be anything from 'the oracle' to 'god' and believed it.. but that is beside the point... i'm just a simple man, but i understand the sepration between the four methods and their uses

yet it seems to be an increasing trend to use the 3rd where the 1st would have been more appropriate.. [incase you're too slow to follow... using a bulletin where it should have been a message].. i see it everyday, and everyday it bothers me.. not so much because it's a clear method of screaming 'pay me attention, do it now! wah! wah! wah!.. because hey, when i went to school it was full of 15 year old girls, so i've gotten used to that as a fact of life [also, i'm writing a myspace blog for ahabs sake, i'm not exactly averse to the culture of seeking a little attention] but more for this reason... 

the 'real life' equivelant of sending a bulletin when it should have been a message is this: you walk into a public place, say a local pub, filled with your friends and associates.. the person you wish to speak to may or may not be there... regardless.. you stand on a table and proceed to shout your message.

i can't spell bulletin or equivelant

now in real life the consequences of a person taking this action or anything from large scale pointing and laughing while a few cheeky wags make that 'loopy' gesture where you twirl your finger just above your ear.. to the more extreme 'men in white coats' scenario

this is why it bothers me.

so if you see someone on your friends list commiting this offence... help them help themselves... take a picture from their profile.. write the words 'village idiot' across it, and bulletin that

everybody is a winner!