I'm no friendster addict. But organizers of this so-called 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit missed the point. Bloggers are still few and dull- and largely ignored- by netizens even in the metropolitan city of Davao. Look, the trend and most popular throughout the country at present is still the friendster. Dung, not any of blogsite like this one. Though friendster has its blog page, but the youths that come flocking in droves to friendster also largely ignore it. They're losing their time (money) in photos and short filled-up descriptions of added and posted friendsters' members. It's not the blogs men, stupid. We're thousands of miles yet to go before blogging gets too popularized, especially in a poor, war-stricken island. This summit organizers have to better be observant themselves. Go to any internet cafe in the downtown, and I bet for a youthful online users (exclude those chatting real widows, online wife infidels pretending to be either separated, widows or single mothers, and the poor bored ladies around wanting to get out of the hell in the country by having too many foreigner chatmates around, huh? with the usual horny indians, he he he), there are 6-7 browsing their friendster's pages while doing other things (not the blog pls) on the net.
Now I come to a point, that should I want to have more political impact next time, I would have more participants in my summit of friendsters' addicts. That could be an eyeball gathering directly in a big party or ball where all Mindanaoan friendsters' members could finally see face to face, in warm bodies who their friends are. That in itself is creatively historic gathering, than this wayward global positioning of trying-hard Davao summit organizers who are more engrossed in peddling serious stuff in a yet alien Internet technology that the ZTE and kickback-greedy people want to popularize.
