Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Do You Like Shakespeare? This One's Kinda for You

English: William Shakespeare statue in Lincoln...
English: William Shakespeare statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Okay, I know I haven't posted since March, but it's my computer's fault.  I talked to the prof about it, and she let me do the rest of my posts on a Blackboard blog (really boring to look at, and almost no fun features whatsoever.  Can't believe my tuition pays for it).  I even did the 4 extra credit posts, so there (picture a tongue being stuck out at a disapproving reader).
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I can get to the reason I'm writing today.  Yesterday after the final, I was talking to Sabrina, who is also in the class, and I found out that when she was about 12, she started a Facebook page called Shakespeare Quotes.  Here's the amazing thing:  she has almost 60,000 followers!  
This came up because I mentioned that I have a bunch of Facebook friends through Marvel Puzzle Quest from all over the world.  There are at least 4 other alphabets used in names on my friends list, and the only reason these people are there is to get extra Iso-8 (one of the currencies in MPQ).  A few times a day you get extra rewards to share with your friends, so many players try to get on as many friend lists as they can.  Here's the sad thing:  I only have about a hundred of these players on my list, and I thought I was doing good.  Of course, I haven't been on Facebook anywhere near as long as she has, but still . . . it makes me feel like I'm somehow not doing everything I should.  Which is crazy.  I don't really want tons of people on my list; I already get plenty posts I don't want from my actual friends and family without getting ones from people I have no real knowledge of. 
I know there's no logical comparison here, since it's not her personal page.  I think maybe I felt so deflated because I'm jealous that I didn't think of doing something like that when I was a kid, too, which is just goofy.