My life online, Part 1
LAST
year, on the first year of the pandemic, more than ever, I realized my value to most people as a writer online.
Since 2014, when I retired myself from Nursing, I’ve dedicated my life to be the most accessible Filipino writer online.
Just a Filipino writer that students newspaper celebrity, I totally take can easily approach for their pleasure in my online fame and/or literature and film and arts projects, notoriety. and other research work for school. On the first year of the pandemic,
*** I decided I wanted to minister online I mean, I created my www. by accompanying the netizens as a petersolisnery.com website in 2008 comic relief. for that purpose. And I think that such will be my
But also, I wanted to be actually Covid-19 pandemic legacy: That in there for them to answer their follow the first years of chaos, I was there up questions. online as the Filipino writer who It went full gears only in 2014. entertained the ( mostly) Filipino
*** netizens. Being online most of the time *** allowed me to study the Gen Y and I engaged my Facebook audience, Gen Z cultures. and beyond.
(I got Twitter and Instagram and Admittedly, my Facebook YouTube, but Facebook is decidedly landscape drastically changed in my social media platform.) 2020.
I also played with lines and I had a few rants with DepEd tried to write Instaliterature. especially concerning their modular
hugot I understood the need for ‘likes.’ education and with their incompetent
*** modules. I became bolder after I was *** flooded with ‘likes.’ Then, I was t alking about
I became a better and adroit academic freeze after news of Facebook poster. student suicides over difficulties in
I don’t go below 5,000 friends coping with distance education. and 7,000 followers because I have My rant with Wattpad came after thousands of pending friend requests. some stupid DepEd modules started
I’m not million-followers popular, teaching Wattpad as an example of but I have my fair share of followers modern Philippine literature. and fans. ***
*** With my ThePSN versus Wattpad And just as I enjoy my literary and post, I gained more Wattpader and non-Wattpader friends.
Then, came the Role Play Writers community, who kind of agreed with my attitudes towards Wattpaders.
*** Then, some idiots among the RPW community maliciously thought I wanted to ride on their shoulders for popularity. The gall!
ThePSN versus RPW went well in my favor, but I had bigger fish to fry.
*** So, I went on with ThePSN versus ( Teenage) Smut Writing, which obviously was something I could win even with both my hands tied.
So again, and again, I was winning online battles against teenage keyboard warriors.
These are a terrible lot, and wise adults avoid them like plagues.
MY LIFE AS ART/14