The Internet is a truly amazing place. You can find out all sorts of information about a person without even having to leave the comforts of home. Which is perfect for me because it’s currently pouring rain outside. And, say I did have an irrational urge to drench myself, I’d be stuck for a long while since my house uses electronic keys and the power’s out. So I decided to stay INSIDE and commence the stalking.
Diigo
introduced me to a Very Interesting Person, a VIP of sorts. Her name is Michelle Stevens. She calls
herself the girl-next-door, among other things. To use her own personal
description,
I am interested in dating :) I love the feeling of being inlove.. I'm sweet and sensitive. I love to party as well :). My favorite music are love songs. Movies: the notebook,ever after,titanic and twilight saga. i love to watch romantic movies... TV: vampire diaries. Books: there's this book from sidney sheldon that i really love but i forgot the title lol!. My Heros are God :).”
If you think she sounds a little cray, don’t worry because I do, too. BUT she does have a lot to say about college “relationships.” I say “relationships” (as opposed to plain ole relationships without the quotation mark bookends) because she mostly bookmarks and annotates articles about hook ups, one night stands, and the like. Those aren’t exactly traditional relationships, hence my distinction.
Michelle is a frequent Diigo user. Or at least she was. She joined in July of 2012 and she bookmarked pages every few days consistently until September 2013. In that short amount of time, she amassed 165 items. She is VERY thorough—every bookmark has multiple, uniquely descriptive tags.
Those were clues that she might be a good resource. And I was right; I found some new sites thanks to her. She most often tags posts by Sexy College Life, on tumblr. Some of SCL’s topics are: “How to Keep the Women Coming Back Without a Relationship,” “Knowing the Signs of a Girl Who Wants a Boyfriend,” and “How to Get the One Night Stand Out of Your Place.”
In that same vein, College Girls Know How has similar posts, such as “How Do You Know if He is Ready to Commit?” and “Dealing with the Ex Who Keeps Coming Back.”
The problem with Michelle, though, is that she is very inappropriate. Every article she helped me find was pertinent to my topic, but nothing had any academic value whatsoever. I’ll be able to use her stuff to help come up with future blog topic ideas, but if I want to be taken seriously as a writer Michelle will not help me (assuming I’m not stupid enough to believe the kind of advice offered by someone who calls himself “Sexy College Life”).
The reason I’ve chosen Michelle, though, is because she directed me to websites that would give me more insight into the college relationship mentality. Because, let’s face it, the stereotypical college kid is more concerned with getting laid than with building a lifelong romantic relationship. I think it is very easy to be promiscuous in college. You have your own place devoid of Mommy and Daddy to supervise if you have a friend of the opposite sex over. I’m not going to comment on whether that’s good or bad. And I’m not going to recommend that you ask Michelle for advice on how to “snag a guy” like she promises she can do.
Here is the proper way to use Michelle as a resource if you would like more insight into college hook up practices: look through some of her bookmarks, find a topic you like, and then use her tags as search words in a more respected database, such as ProQuest.
Alright. Time to do something with my day other than sit in the dark flipping through hook up advice columns. My laptop battery is about to die anyway. Oh, electricity, how I need you!
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