CyberDayze
My podcast Author Interview yesterday went beyond my wildest dreams! ☝️ It was absolutely awesome! ❤️ (It's hard to be humble when I'm so beside myself with excitement!) My battery died -Oopsy!-when we were two hours (!!!) into it and he messaged me and said he already has split what we had into parts One and Two and wants to schedule an appointment to do a part Three! Yayyy!!! I'm honored.🙏
My Interview will be posted here:
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You know, I hate this song. And I don't really care for Paul McCartney. I'm a Lennon gal. But. I saw Paul McCartney in concert in San Francisco a few years ago and he was outstanding!👍 He looked great, didn't miss a beat 🚦and played for three hours! 🕓 Nine Inch Nails followed him and Trent paled in comparison. 🎬What a shame.🔕
But.
I'll never give up 🤷♀️on Trent Reznor. He is a Higher Power to one in the pages of CyberDayze. 📚
So.
Read it if you dare.
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https://youtu.be/KBX2dySWGew
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I blogged this not too long ago:
"CyberDayze
Someone in Twitter called me 'A Pioneer'.
She is spot on.
Because.
There IS no genre for the likes of my book 📚 CyberDayze.
I aim to change that.
🎲
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And I got this reply to that post:
"Uniqueness is a definite plus when it comes to arts and literature. You have indeed carved out a unique style.
And now it's time to follow it up with your next project. You don't want to be remembered as Gina the one-hit wonder.
GET WRITING BOOK 2!"
To which I answered:
"Thank you 🙏for your comment that I have a unique style. That-I do. I call 'Them' 'The Words'.
And. I have started CyberDayze: My Second Life."
Today I got a negative report from someone who was reading CyberDayze to review it, in exchange for her book to be read and reviewed. She said she didn't understand it and that she had never had to return a book unfinished before. She said she had high hopes for CyberDayze and was really disappointed.🚫
What's that old saying-Bad publicity is good publicity? ❓❓
Yep. I think that's what it is, alright. ‼️
So.
I am going to copy & paste her comment and then...blog about it.♨️
Yepper. ✅That's what I'm gonna do. And. That's the right thing to do, I'd say.✏️
And don't I also always say:
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Read it if you dare.
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Yepper.
I most certainly do.
[smiles]"
So.
Here's that poor 🎴woman's comment about CyberDayze:
"I love everything about the internet and I had high hopes for this book. Sadly, it is the very first one here at OBC that I have to return in defeat. It is written in a very disjointed, weird style with a narrative I simply can't follow. I reached chapter 10, after which I stopped. I don't understand who Robert is, and I am confused as who her father is that she will end up marrying? I understand that the writer was depressed back in the day, but I am no psychologist, so I am unable to figure out what she is trying to say through her book.
Also, the pdf has two pages (columns) on one page which makes it very awkward to read both sides on my tiny iPad since I constantly have to slide my fingers from the left side of the page to the right side.
Overall, a negative experience which I don't want to continue."
******
I can only feel empathy for this woman's inability to understand 🚱CyberDayze. I recognized from the onset that it would take an intelligent and educated 📚individual to Get It. She apparently does not 🚯possess those attributes. I am not being mean; rather it's merely just a true proclamation.
As Kenneth said in his awesome Amazon Reader Review: "If you're looking for black and white and self-help prescriptions, you'll have to go elsewhere."
And he prefaced that grand review with this:
"An important work - get off the www for the time it takes you to read it!"
He is absolutely, spot on correct with that ascertation.
Gracias!
But.
Do you want to know ☝️ the ironic thing about this? 🚧
The name I have given of that new genre for the likes of CyberDayze is this:
Social Network Psychology.
She figured out 👍the premise of the story-and doesn't even know it. 🇦🇱⚖️
Fancy that.
☑️
I rest my case about those empathetic feelings.
🎰
CyberDayze.
Read it if you dare.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M2AH0RO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8m_kPU53ow&feature=share
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As you all may know already, I have started a new CyberDayze Facebook Group named, aptly, CyberDayze. 🎶 If I haven't 🤷♀️already added you, here's the link. Come visit me.😊 I can post lots of music 🎵 there, unlike my Facebook Pages. Yayyy!!!
Lol
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1941447572845838
At any rate, I have been busybusybusy ☝️ adding friends and yesterday I came across a friend named Amad Elbez. Now, in my original, now deleted, Facebook account, Amad and I used to message each other frequently. He lived in Egypt 🇪🇬 and was an avid musician 👨🎤 in my genre of music. 🎶 He suffered great pressure from his family, because of his chosen lifestyle. And. He lived with his parents. He also was chastised for abandoning his religion. He talked in length with me about his life and what it was like to live in Egypt. 🇪🇬
And he was intrinsically interested in what my life in the United States 🇺🇸 was like. And was extremely envious of the many many concerts that I have attended. Because, you see, artists in our genre of music 🎶 don't tour in Egypt . 🇪🇬 So. Amad had never had the opportunity to see any of his favorite artists perform live.
And then one ☝️ day I saw this post from Amad in newsfeed:
"Never again"
He posted that going on, 😒 hmm, eight years now. And, checking his timeline I see-he has stuck to his promise.
And I started wondering, what happened to Amad that possessed him to leave Facebook? He was a gentle, kind young man, so I don't think it had to do with problems with Facebook peeps.👀 Did he ditch his musical life and return to his religion? Or did he meet a partner and marry? I don't think it was the latter, because his post 'never again' has a negative 👎 connotation to it.
I miss Amad. And I will never know the answer to my question of what became of him. And it reminds me of something Paul wrote to me and is shared in the pages 📚 of CyberDayze:
"Social networking: You have the ability to establish a certain degree of anonymity while being able to express talents, interests and passions in a way we cannot do in a terrestrial way. The downside is someone can disappear and then anonymity sucks. You miss them."
Tiz the downfall of Intangible friends, is it not?🤷♀️
CyberDayze.
It's like no other.
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Don't 👀 look now, folks-I am up to a HUGE 25,300 views! I HOPE 🤞 you are sharing, but I'm pretty positive it's my Twitter peeps helping me and not you.
Such a shame that you won't give me a hand 🤚 in being Stellar's Number One☝️Blogger! 😎 Yayyy! 🌹
Please help by reading 📖 my blog in the attached link and then Sharing this post!🙏
https://steller.co/s/7RMYDywntKx
Oh how I LOVE ❤️ competitions!🎭
Come on, people, make me a star! ⭐️
Hugs,
GD
And also-
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Read it if you dare.
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Now I command a TREMENDOUS presence in Twitter. Not bragging. Just informing.
And I often wonder which of the two-Twitter or Facebook-is the better marketing platform for CyberDayze. Now I hope 🤞 that it would be Facebook. Because it is here that I can writewritwrite. And post pictures that won't be truncated to fit the marginal size of a Twitter tweet. [Ihatethat!!!]
But it's tweets like these that I receive in Twitter that make me think that it is, in fact, Twitter which wins out between the two.
Drats.
And.
Wonderful!
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Read it if you dare.
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On page 31 of a CyberDayze Google search, this thought crossed my mind💭: "HOLY COW! How MANY??? Words📚 of mine are OUT THERE in the WorldWideWeb, anyway??? Trillions???
Page 31. And still counting.
Yep.
Trillions.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8m_kPU53ow&feature=share
CyberDayze: My Second Life
…is the NEXT book, my Blogger peeps.
JoeJoe had a change of heart on sharing HIS cyber story and, thus, backed out on me after I had completed seventeen chapters.
I have been inviting my 20k Facebook peeps to ‘Like’ his Facebook page. And I get notifications that tells me that they are doing just that. And. I have been sharing his Facebook posts of his books that he is advertising to my four timelines.
Am I deviant or what?🦀
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I'm back from RoadTrip! and am now conducting Damage Control.
It takes me a little while to leave Tangible and return to Intangible. Just as it is very hard to leave Intangible and return to Tangible. I don't know why that is.
So what do I say now? I guess I could tell you that by my over three- week RoadTrip! I only blogged and did Twitter maybe three times. I have learned by experience that when I leave Intangible for any length of time, my traffic suffers in all my sites. Thus, when I come back to Intangible, I feel like a cyber cattle driver, rounding up my strays and returning them back to the herd where they belong.
I guess I can also say that my RoadTrip! was so filled with events that I cannot remember everything that I did. Does this sound odd? Of course it does. The first 10 days of my vacation I had Intangible and Tangible collide when I met one of my Intangible friends with whom I've spoken to and emailed for a year and eight months. I know most everything about his life. Just as he knows everything about my life. Because he read CyberDayze. And supplied me with a killer Amazon Reader Review, by the way. You should check it out on Amazon under the paperback copy.
I had a problem with another Intangible who turned into a Tangible last year. He wanted to know where I was going and who I was going to be with. Of course, he did not know about my Intangible/Tangible #2 male friend with whom I was planning to go to a Depeche Mode concert in Detroit. He even came to my home state and picked me up. Yes, it got to the point that I had to tell Intangible/Tangible #1 about Intangible/Tangible #2. And, boy, was he hurt and jealous. Although he had no reason to be – I explained up front that I was meeting Intangible/Tangible #2 at a friendship level only. And that is exactly what it was. Nothing happened. I had my own bedroom. I gave him a hug goodbye and that was the extent of any physical contact.
It got ugly when Intangible/Tangible #1 was adamant on picking me up at Intangible/Tangible #2's house in Michigan and taking me to Lambeau Field in Milwaukee for a Brewer's game. A simple plan got terribly complicated and I decided that I would have to spend the rest of my trip with Intangible/Tangible #1 at his house on Lake Michigan. Apparently I 'created' a monogamous 'committed' relationship with him by accepting his invitations to travel with him over the past year-at his expense. I am currently paying two Attornies and explained that I hadn't the extra money to travel because of that. He said no problem. And so our relationship goes. We travel. Last August one year ago we met for the first time and he took me to Vegas for five days. I required two rooms for that trip. He seemed safe enough, so I agreed to go to Chicago, Milwaukee, western Michigan and his condo for several weeks. He also took me to Branson, Missouri for a few days, then on to Houston to see the Cotton Bowl. From there we went to San Antonio and spent several days. Then in January he took me to Washington DC for Prez Trump's inauguration. Then in March he took me to Phoenix for a week to go to spring training games. And this past week he took me to Chicago and attended the Nine Inch Nails concert with me. We will be attending a Depeche Mode concert in Nashville on Monday, Our next trip starts on October 4 when we fly to Vegas and stay the night and the next day fly to Oakland, California where we pick up a rental car and are going to San Francisco, LA, Alcatraz, the redwood forest, Reno and then back to Vegas again to see Incubus at The Hard Rock Hotel. VIP seats. Yes. He IS fun to travel with. He definitely gets around.
So. Have I accidentally created a committed relationship with this person? I guess it seems that I have. I, however, am NOT a gold digger. Far from it. I WILL pay my own way when we go to Thailand and China.
Yepper. He IS fun to travel with.
Well now.
Enough said.
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Read it if you dare.
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A recent Twitter tweet received:
"Whoa! Someone blazed the Twitter landscape like a true Spamster tonight. Awesome, Gina!"
My reply tweet:
"Well I'm glad 😁 I'm being heard out there in Twitterland. Do you know how incredibly DIFFICULT it is to be heard in the www??? Extremely."
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Read it if you dare.
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I blogged this days ago:
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A Twitter tweet recently received:
"How odd. U always ask these deeply philosophical open ended nearly unanswerable profound and mesmeric questions.
Who the fuck cares what they think?"
Now I couldn't help but get a laugh 😂 out of this, because that is EXACTLY what I think my posts are myself!
He was absolutely spot on in his rumination. [yessireehecertainlywas]
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Read it if you dare.
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To which Stalkerhacker commented today:
"For piss sake, will you ever come up with new material? Your same-old-shit is boring everybody to death. P.S. stop copying posts from others and come up with something original for once"
???
Now, what in the hell is he talking about? Stop copying post from others and come up with something original for once? The posts that I copy from others are directly related to me and CyberDayze. And that's what makes makes the post interesting. Not boring.
And furthermore, the statement in the tweet was that my posts are 'deeply philosophical'.
???
Oh well.
He can't help himself.
Because...
He is Stalkerhacker.
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A Twitter tweet recently received:
"How odd. U always ask these deeply philosophical open ended nearly unanswerable profound and mesmeric questions.
Who the fuck cares what they think?"
Now I couldn't help but get a laugh 😂 out of this, because that is EXACTLY what I think my posts are myself!
He was absolutely spot on in his rumination. [yessireehecertainlywas]
CyberDayze.
Read it if you dare.
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Guess what I just found during my check of the CyberDayze Amazon link this morning?
A new Amazon Reader Review!
And it's not like my other three, Five Star reviews which are short, one paragraph posts with general comments. This one is long and detailed! YES! WANTED NEEDED DESIRED CRAVED feedback!!! I LOVE ❤️ it!
And.
It's an amazing 😉 Review. He stated he gave four stars over five because he kept looking for my personal comments about the shared dialog with others but there wasn't enough there for him. Oopsy. Someone told me to put more personal comment in CyberDayze, but I failed to do so. Because nothing came to mind what to say, exactly.
Here is that MUCH appreciated Review:
"An important work - get off the www for the time it takes you to read it!
ByKennethon August 21, 2017
This book is both difficult and easy to read. And I'm not sure why. So I will have to read it again. It is noteworthy that I put this Review under the "paper back edition." You may want to read the Reviews under the Kindle Edition as well. But I bought the paperback so it would be easy for me to yellow highlight it and make entries in red ink. Alongside "Words: begging to be written" and "A new addiction instaneously emerged." And "Doomed from the beginning by circumstances that were well beyond our recognition and wisdom, we battled and loved, and loved and battled, and lost in the end."
I suppose this book could be called a "fictionalized autobiography." Fictionalized only because names have been changed to protect the ... participants. We can't really say "protect the innocent," because that wouldn't be right. But although the book is deeply personal, its judgments are not so as much - they are more detached. We follow along with the author her journey through life, her long time battle with depression, the hopes, the disappointments, the betrayals, and eventually the dissolution of her marriage, and we see the very significant role that social media like facebook play in all of that. There are balanced portrayals - social media is seen both as contributing to behavior that was damaging, but also as liberating from impossible confines Catch-22 relationships. If you're looking for black and white and self-help prescriptions, you'll have to go elsewhere.
I won't give away the author's conclusions, if we could call them that. Suffice it to say that there is an admission that this material could be used as a Case Study for followup research in areas that have not been fully explored - along the lines of "How is social media affecting our ways of interacting?"
There are some nuggets throughout. I enjoyed reading of the many bands that the author loved throughout her life - and the concerts she attended, and recognized many of the names: Zappa, Alice Cooper, Rush, Aerosmith, Depeche Mode - and many, many more. In hindsight, it is evident that music was an attempt at self-medication, an aspect which is now formally recognized as "music therapy."
I gave this book only four stars and not five because I wish the author had contributed more of her own commentary to balance out the "journal entries" of her interaction on facebook and chat. I found myself reading through the journal entries motivated to get to the end of that chapter, or to the beginning of the next one, so I could read her "take" on all of it.
This is by no means a "polished" work. It is honest, it is raw, it is visceral. But medicine that is good for you doesn't always taste good."
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Read it if you dare.
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I recently found this blog comment that was posted quite awhile ago. Today was the day that I found time to respond to the kind post:
"That is really fascinating. You're an overly skilled blogger.
I have joined your rss feed and look forward to looking for
extra of your wonderful posts. Also, I've shared your website in my social networks."
Hmm. I wonder what she meant by 'That is really fascinating.' (?) Maybe I should go back and investigate what the blog topic was referencing which stirred her to post the comment. Who knows what I might have been talking about, right? Maybe I don't WANT to know? Egad. Do I worry too much? Remember-I often say to myself, "I wrote THAT???" You just don't know what those pesky 'Words' are capable of spinning.
Or.
Maybe you DO.
I contemplated on disclosing to her that just over one year ago I was asking Google what a blog was for god's sake already. And I STILL am not entirely clear on said subject, I must admit. All I do is write about whatever runs through this whacky brain of mine at the time. And, of course I should interject that 'The Words' most likely wrote a blog or two. Or three.
That was nice that she shared my website in her social networks. Very thoughtful. It is as genial as when one of you shares my often lengthy and profound Facebook posts to your own timeline.
At any rate, I am truly honored to be called 'An overly skilled blogger.'
Who would have ever thought?
Certainly not I.
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As I have told you, I was writing a Twitter friend's cyber story. I got through chapter 17 and didn't hear from him again for almost four weeks. He posted in Twitter that he had been in the hospital for 23 days and was diagnosed with liver and lung cancer. He then answered my email -I had messaged him that I needed more stories from him and he emailed back that Jesus did not want him thinking bad thoughts and he wanted to just discontinue writing the book.
I am really disappointed. Because I think his story and mine are very important ones for what is now called 'cyberpsychology'. I read a book by Mary Aiken, a pioneering cyberpsychologist, named The Cyber Effect. I can't believe how uncanny it is that the things she states in the book, CyberDayze substantiates.
Joe's story about what he did in a cyber 'game' called Second Life, was shocking. He was addicted to it for five years. He said that he hadn't even gotten to 'his psycho self' side of the story yet. It hurts me to know that he's dying, and it's only compounded by the fact that he won't be sharing his shocking stories with me and the world. He did say that I could do whatever I wanted to do with what I've written thus far.
There's not enough data to publish it, but maybe I could share a half chapter a day in my CyberDayze Facebook pages. Sort of like a soap opera, I guess.
Anyway, you can probably tell I'm feeling depressed.
Because I'm still bummed about JoeJoe and his untold story. I did email him back a long email [wouldyouexpectanythingother??] telling him that 'CyberDayze: My Second Life' could quite possibly become his… Legacy. I explained to him again how important it might be in the world of cyberpsychology.
Not even mentioning the people who may read it and say to themselves, "Wow! I'm NEVER going to get mixed up in cyber games and have them ruin MY life!" Because that could very well happen as well.
But, I also know that Joe may be in considerable physical pain and not be able to think of the things that he did in that game. I told him I wouldn't pester him about it, but I'm having a really hard time not doing that. I just wish he would share his story.
Savemefrommyselfalready
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i usually blog first and then do fb pages and whatever I blogged gets used as a fb post later in the day but today i am going 2 do it differently i have 2 make a statement about the state of the united states with the ppl who r not able 2 write a sentence complete with capitalized words beginning the sentence with proper punctuation used and words spelled out completely instead of how r u which drives me crazy already i cant figure out how ppl dont capitalize i my iphone does it so i dont have 2 so feel free 2 tell me how they do it cause i want 2 no dont ppl c that this makes them look so uneducated and tends 2 make me not take them seriously i bet ppl would be more careful about how they write if they knew that their posts would be laughed at or looked down upon based on how they wrote it dont u think i was writing someones cyber story and he wrote this way and he is a multi published author i emailed him and told him that i dont mind adding to his stories to make them more interesting 2 read but plz dont make me have 2 do simple edits such as capitalization and punctuation i guess he wasnt able 2 do that 4 me because he kept writing his stories the same way 4 me and damnitalltohellalready i had 2 do all that simple but aggravating editing of his work and i questioned what his published books looked like when he turned them in 2 the publisher i couldnt imagine presenting something like that in fact the publisher of CyberDayze said my work was the cleanest they had ever seen my rounds of edits were due to having to get pics and links lined up under the correct sentence did that ever drive me crazy almost as much as how r u and no punctuation or capitalization which without me doing it in this post to make my point i am fighting the urge 2 go back and fixfixfix everything omg it just drives me nuts do u get my point with this post gg i hope u do i am just the messenger folks so listen up when i say ur writing looks so uneducated and silly when u do this so buck up and start writing correctly, folks. Yes, even you all in Twitter are not off the hook due to character maximum in a tweet. If I can manage writing a tweet that consists of a complete sentence, including proper punctuation and capitalization of words where necessary, then you can do it, too.
Please! people!
The state of how the vast many are writing is becoming alarming!
Let's do our best to write a proper sentence and keep the United States 🇺🇸 looking like an intelligent, educated nation.
Thank god! THIS post is completed; I was almost on the brink of going stark raving crazy! I cannot write like that!!!
Screams!
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