TESTING, TESTING- 5,6,7,8!

Hello Internet!

I’m trying to reacquaint myself with the many blog platforms (your wordpresses, your wixes, your blogspots, bloggers, etc), “premium” apps, social media accounts, subscriptions, streaming services & memberships I dabbled in over the past twenty-odd years or so. Like… remember FRIENDSTER?! For me, Friendster is what started the whole tumbleweed of passwords a-rollin’ across the prairie. I’m doing this for several reasons:

1. To procrastinate working on the screenplay I’m dangerously close to finishing.
2. To make sure I’m not still paying monthly subscription fees to some bullshit I signed up for back in 2003 & forgot about it.
3. To finally get that basic, all-purpose website up & running as a placeholder— a calling card, if you will. One stop Mary Birdsong shopping.

HERE’S A LIST OF ADORABLE SITES FROM DAYS OF INTERNETS PAST (in no particular order). Some are sites that MAY NOT EXIST anymore, some DEFINITELY DON’T EXIST anymore (but are mourned by me on an almost daily basis — ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME, VINE???? 😭😭😭), and some still exist with a tenacity that verges on becoming truly touching— the loyalty some scrappy little “early ott” start-ups have inspired hints at the possibility that a sizable portion of this globe’s population still gives a damn; still clings to something helped them feel connected to their fellow freaks in the freaky, spinning diaspora that is our plucky planet.

off the top of my head:

1. HootSuite
2. PicMonkey
3. Pic Collage
4. Tumblr
5. MySpace
6. Friendster
7. Add This
8. Stumble Upon
9. BandCamp
10. Sonic Bids
11. Napster
12. Last FM
13. Blogger:
    • Big Mama’s Honeymoon Underpants
    • I’m #1 When I Go #2
    • 90 Outfits In 90 Days
14. WordPress:
    • BirdsongDreambook.com
    • 99CentWhore.com
    • MaryBirdsong.com
    • MaryBirdsongTV.com
15. Vine.com
16. Musical.ly
17. CDBaby.com
18. DailyPaintWorks.com (DNS error assist)
19. Freecycle.com
20. Flickr.com
21. GoDaddy.com
    • TeeVeeDinner.com
    • MelaniaSpeaks.com (cancelled)
    • JudySpeaksOnline.com