Goodbye Plurk…

I stopped plurking but I’m not deleting my profile. I froze my karma to mark the level I reached before leaving. I am not deleting anything simply for posterity’s sake.

Chronicles of Syaoran (Little Wolf)

Leaving Plurk is one of the things I promised myself to do this year so I could cut back on the time I spend in front of the computer. It’s just one of the steps though. I plan to leave another social network much later. This is also one of the reasons why even though I love Tumblr, I will never maintain my own tumblog.

So that leaves me with just one microblogging social network left to use: Twitter. You can follow me there if you like. I tweet each blog update here as well as interesting stuff I find around the web.

Plurk was the first microblogging social network I seriously used. Even though I had a Twitter account a month before using Plurk (I think I might be the first Filipino on Twitter), I still plurked more often than I tweeted. I’ve never had an abundance of “friends” there though with my preference of keeping online life separate from real life. So I was able to regard my Plurk profile as an informal diary chronicling my thoughts and feelings of the time.

I remember the first few months of Plurk when everyone just loved it more than Twitter because of the cool timeline and the banana dance. And so allow me to enter Plurk nostalgia mode.

My first Plurks

My first plurk was on July 14, 2008

On my second plurk, I tested Ping.fm integration. I eventually stopped using it.

3rd plurk: I was reading The Shack during this time.

6th plurk: WordPress 2.6 was released around this time.

7th plurk: Got my first response from an anonymous Australian

9th plurk: On the hunt for a secondhand laptop to replace my old Dell Latitude.

10th plurk: Got my first response from a fellow Filipino.
Notice the desperation for karma during these times.

My Plurk “Gadget” Milestones

A few weeks later, I found my dream laptop.

August 11, 2008 – Got a call from Oral-B telling me that I won a Palm TX
My first time to win a tech gadget.

However, it would take exactly a year before I try plurking on it.

November 30, 2008 – Got my first pair of audiophile headphones: Sennheiser HD-205

On January 13, 2009, I installed our home wireless router.

A couple of days later, I bought my first wireless USB adapter: Linksys WUSB54GC.

And almost 2 weeks later, I got my first portable hard disk.

Other Plurk Milestones

Some of my plurks when typhoon Ondoy hit Manila

A collage of some of my other memorable Plurks

This actually makes for a good recorded history of what I was up to during the past couple of years. Thank you Plurk for this. I don’t think I can make this kind of thing on Twitter.

It’s been a fun year and a half of plurking but the time has come for me to leave the network. Thank you my fellow Plurkers!

Special thanks to liquidskinn who has already left Plurk some weeks ago. She made the Patrick Star plurk theme which I had used during my entire stay on the site.

And (probably) for the last time, the banana dance!