Social Bookmarking Soulmates

You would think with roughly 6 billion people in the world and 2 billion Internet users it should be relatively easy to find my soul mate. But … it is not.  Twenty-one years on this earth and sadly I am a hopeless case. Is it because I have high standards? Or is it because I am not searching in the right places? Whatever the answer may be I am sure many of us have a hard time answering this to ourselves. So rather than self-loathing about this dilemma I am going to artificially create a relationship with dan maertens because I can. Also, it is one of those things that you may be single, but at least you have a group of friends who share your same interest. Dan is one of them. Although, he is not aware we are friends per se I have loved a million people from afar.

Since being an undergrad requires you to be an incognito ninja it is safe to assume that I have mastered the art of stalking people. If you are not aware of it yet, it is one of my work-study jobs on top of everything else I have to do at this university. But enough about me, like a teenage girl, who found her soul mate I too have a boy I want to share with you guys. Like I mentioned before his name is Dan (my nickname to him). From his profile I am making the best-educated guest about his interest by looking at his top tags. It seems like he is interested in Sino-African relations. This is one area I am not quite familiar with, but similar to a teenage girl I think I am going to read the things he reads to get closer to him. You guys do know what I am referring to, right? Like when you see a girl in middle school start emulating the things the guy she likes in the hopes he will notice her.

Anyways he is quite active in his mining of Sino-African relation data. He has about 24,412 total bookmarks and annotations. But to be fair he has been doing this since March 17, 2009. On the other hand, I am new to this scene, so give me a break. During his online activity he has gotten one fan. In other words, I have competition. Moreover, he has joined two other groups, but they are not related to what I am interested in: Asia. I think I am starting to see that he gravitates more towards Africa as his core interested. However, what relationship doesn’t have their difference.

Throughout his frequent habit to use the social bookmarking interface he has found a lot of interesting things about China (besides just African content). I was pleasantly pleased that he had found something about Sino-Latin American relation. However, the link is broken to the actual site that held the content, which is a bit of a disappointment. Other than that, everything else is more catered towards Sino-African. Yet, I think the biggest gem I found from this is that the old China post he has tagged have other people tagging them. Yay for me finding more friends.