This goes out to mine and Bianca’s blog stalkers. You guys are just plain pathetic, and yes, it’s creeping us out. We love to blog, most of the time it’s just general nonsense, don’t take everything we say in our vlogs seriously. There’s no need to post comments like “fuck you”, or “Oh I can’t believe you’re bagging –insert name here-“. If you don’t like what we’re writing or what we’re talking about in our comments you can click on the little red ‘x’ at the top right corner of the screen and just leave. Also what’s the use of posting “fuck you” as a comment? Do you really think that’s constructive? At all?
Because of blog stalkers like you, we’ve had to password protect our vlogs and some blog posts. We know you’re not 40 year old pedophile types, you guys are all teenage try-hard girls who also have blogs but they are full spelling mistakes (ok, I’m not saying I never make spelling mistakes or typos, I do.), shorthand MSN writing(lyk, ttly, dai, wbu, dat), or literally just posts some other blogger that posted 2 hours before. -sigh- don’t get me started on the unoriginality of the content.
My blog also has a visitor monitor, so I know you’ve been google-ing me and Bianca. Everyday there’s at least 12 people google-ing us. I’m actually glad people want to know us and ect. But sometimes I wonder who are these people? Why do want to google me/Bianca? How do they know I exist? Do I know these people in real life? I guess these questions will never be answered.
Also I would just like to say that when you ask “your blog inspires me so much I’m starting one just like it, can I have your permission?” I think the honest answer would be “no, no I don’t give you permission, but I’m glad I inspired you” but you’re probably going to do it anyway and it would be selfish not to let you.
-sigh- I just wish blogs were exclusive to those who are worthy of one. But this is the 21th century and we’re taking about the internet where nothing is impossible. A girl can dream.
Not so ‘xx’, Angela
HAHAHA.
You’re funny.
Hi Angela,
I’ve read your blog a couple of times now, and not commented, but I want to to this post. Feel completely free to disregard this comment entirely – I’m not trying to be rude or anything, just giving you some advice.
You say that ‘we know you’re not 40 year old pedophile types’, but the thing is, how do you know that? Especially considering that, since this blog is public, you have no idea who reads it daily and only a small percentage are probably commenting. Doesn’t it creep you out a bit that people are Google-ing you?
You’re only a young teenager, you’re quite pretty, and it would be incredibly easy to find you – any random who clicks their way onto this blog would easily find out your name, what you look like, where you live, what school you go to, where you hang out, who your friends, etc. Maybe it doesn’t seem like such a danger to you, but there are a lot of sickos out there.
I understand you want to have your designs seen(and you have some very pretty designs) – I just think you’d be best off posting them on a more neutral website, like the one you have, that makes it harder for people to find out so much about you, and having a private blog, or password protecting all your posts.
It probably sounds to you like I’m being overly nosy, and I know there are plenty of young girls out there with blogs like this one, but it was something that occurred to me while reading this blog – there’s plenty of psychos out there, and you’re always hearing things about girls being targeted over the internet. Like I said, you can disregard this if you want, but I hope you’ll take some notice of this =)
Cathryn
Hi Cathryn.
I know what you mean but you should also know that not every thing i say here is true. I’m completely aware of ‘40 year old pedophile types’. But this post was more about ‘crazy try-hard 15 year old types’.
Thanks for the lovely compliments.
Angela
I found your blog via 4 inches, and while I found you annoying on there, I do actually quite like your designs and think you are talented. Sadly, when you put yourself out there like this you are going to get haters. That’s the beauty (perhaps?) of anonymity online. You also have to remember that when you eventually go for a job the first thing your potential employer is going to do is google you. I should know because I did exactly that this morning and found that a potential new employee had a chequered past of being troublesome on some online forums. She didn’t get a phone call.
You put your full name and photo online, you ask for problems.
hello angela, i also found you through 4 inches. i (if you can tell) live in PV – abbreviation for Palos Verdes- and it is actually a pretty safe place considering it’s basically in the middle of LA. anyway, you designs are amazing! i wish i could make designs as good as that. and then i saw this post and i thought i’d tell you something. mind you, it will sound boring, and you can stop reading at this moment, because my retarded jap friend (there’s a huge jap community in LA) told me this.
there was the sun and the north wind and they were talking as they watched one traveller hiking up a mountain. incidentally, they were both bored, and they had a little competition, in which who can get to make the man take his many layers of coats off. (that’s sounds wrong but don’t worry) the north wind blew as hard as he can to forcefully blow his coat off; but it gave the opposite effect, and the man put on even more coats. in contrary, the sun just sat in the sky and shined on the man. the man, who got really hot, took his coats off, thus successfully getting rid of the man’s coats.
in your situation angela, the coats are the blog stalkers, and you would (please don’t get offended) be the north wind. i can’t give you any advice on how to get rid of those stupid blog stalkers (i honestly can’t understand why they do that), because i’ve never been in your situation before. but don’t worry, i bet their just jealous of your designs. stalkers in general don’t have a bit of originality in them, so they want to stalk someone and get their ideas.
(please stop here if you don’t want to read anymore of my ranting)
i remember when a girl in my grade got all these offensive (e.g. short emails that say ‘fuck you’ and stuff) emails when her ‘hater’ decided to post her details in an unreliable forum. she posted a picture of her, her email/msn (through myspace), her phone number, and her full name. Luckily, her name was a really common name unlike mine (Sarina Niacelli, i changed some bits in my last name, and my first name isn’t Sarina). but she did get tons of phone calls and her family had to change their phone number, and get her a new email.
angela, on the internet, you can disguise yourself as anyone. as ‘4 inch reader’ said, anonymity is great. you could probably say you’ve one the national swimming championships in america and stuff and people can’t say you are lying. so angela, revealing your school, your full name, and your picture really isn’t a good idea, even more because now you’ve got blog stalkers.
i think i was lucky to have a natural ability of crashing computers because i wouldn’t have to go through all of this. but, i know i’ve said this about a million times already, but please don’t get offended by what i say. you are still in your early teens and i really don’t want this sort of stuff happening to you.
besides all of this serious stuff, i wish you good luck in your fashion career. for a young girl like you, you’ve done so much!
Hmm that’s why I have an anonymous blog. Sure my friends and stuff know who I am, but people stumbling upon my blog just see me as Frangipani Princess (unless of course, they read the comments and see all my friends calling me by name). There are sickos out there, and even though it’s cool to have your things out there, sometimes its cooler to do it while remaining anonymous…
gg xx
Hey Angela, I have to agree with what has been already said. If you make your life and opinions so public you are welcoming feedback and whilst you may not like some of the response you get, by making your blog public you don’t really have any grounds on which to complain. I used to have a public blog back when I was 15 and I would get people leaving me nasty, anonymous comments. I never found out who it was but it was clearly someone who knew me. I just chose to ignore it. In fact I actually felt a little complimented that one of my classmates cared enough to google me and read my personal blog. You can look at it this way, at least you are confident enough in yourself and your opinions to put your name to them, rather than hide behind online anonymity.
Whilst i am not trying to be unnecessarily critical, I do feel the need to point out that your comments on originality and copy-cat blogs are a tad redundant. There are hundreds of thousands of girls just like you that have been writing blogs for a decade. And before blogs, there were journals in which your great grandmother probably recorded her thoughts on fashion. So, as you can see, you don’t have any real authority to say who can and cannot create a fashion and lifestyle blog. And not to get too post-modern on you, but the very concept of originality is obsolete within our society; something which has only been reinforced by the internet.
And I hope that you were being somewhat flippant in your comment about making blogs exclusive, because surely you realise that goes against their basic function?
I like your blog. I think it’s great that you’ve already got such a well developed sense of style (when i was 15 i was trying to be a punk) and you’re obviously smart and talented. I just don’t think you should get caught up on originality or upset when you see other people creating similar blogs. Nothing is original, but that’s okay, we all just need to learn to share. It’s a shame that people have been leaving you nasty comments but i hope that doesn’t deter you from blogging. Sorry for writing an essay, i realise you probably don’t care about my opinion, but that’s the beauty of the internet, i can give you it anyway.