Welcome to Plurk

Plurk officially came out of beta on Sunday 1st June 2008. This is probably why there is a candle next to your Plurk animal on your timeline at the moment.

Brief introduction: For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Rammi, a simple Plurk user who was technically meant to be keeping the blog updated. As you can see, I kind of failed at that. Sorry for the blog silence, guys.
I have been asked to share my “Plurk story,” or rather, my experiences of being a Plurk member.

As a user who only joined the website on the 8th of June 2008, I wasn’t actually around for Plurk’s ‘birth’, as it were. At the time, I was still on Twitter, posting angsty teenage thoughts and wondering what this whole social networking shebang was all about. Then, suddenly, there it was. The name. PLURK. Every single person I followed seemed to be talking about it. It was heralded as a competitor to Twitter, a brand new way of communicating, a replacement to life as we knew it, etc. It depended on which tech blog you read (I might also be slightly exaggerating on the last point). It sounded AMAZING. I initially had reservations, but since all my friends at the time were joining, I thought it couldn’t hurt.

I was soon addicted. It was less cluttered than other websites I’d used. I found it easy to connect with people and have random conversations. The karma system had me hooked, and I would have done anything to be able to use a little dancing banana in my plurks.

Two years on, Plurk still is the best website I ever made the decision to join, and I’m not just saying that because I’m writing this here. Sure, I still use other social networking sites, but Plurk’s still the first place I go to when given the option.

I’ve learnt so much from Plurk. Plurkers give me help and advice when I have issues, send me weird and wonderful links that make me laugh and cry at the same time, and, most importantly, have let me befriend them. I’ve developed relationships on here that I know will last a lifetime. In the last two years, I’ve also been given my own  emoticon and have access to this lovely blog.
Unlike many other websites online, I actually feel like I’m valued and part of a community here.

Happy birthday, Plurk. Here’s to many more.

Do you have a better (less cheesy-sounding) Plurk story that wasn’t written by a half-asleep person at 3AM? Shoot me an email at glomprammi@glomp.me.