♥ Princessa's Royal Diary ♥ - Royalty has never been so PINK!

You must be wondering, "What's with the weird title?" I'll explain it soon enough, if you continue reading that is.

You need to think of user-ids quite often. For example, if you wish to create an email, you need to think of a user-id. If you wish to create an account in a forums or portal-based environment, you will also need to think of a user-id. So what do you use as your user-id, most of the time?

By the way, this is just my ridiculous theory, not proven whatsoever.

For a guy (not all guys) it's simple. If their names and nicks aren't available, they'd just simply create a user-id with whatever name or word that pops into their mind.

For example, a friend of mine was creating his World of Warcraft account user-id. As expected, his name was already taken, so he thought of adding his year of birth behind his name, but sadly, as his name is way common, someone had already thought of that. Not willing to spend anymore time thinking, he started looking around is room. In an instance, he spotted his ABC G100 Series mobile phone's box (I can't use the actual name otherwise you'd know his account id) lying on the floor and he decided to use "ABCG100Series" as his account user-id.

Not much thought put into this decision I would say. Then again, many would question, "Why bother thinking so much it's just a user-id?" Well, that's not the topic I'm on for now, so I'm not going to give you my answer. :)

Now, the girls...

Girls think more then guys and are somewhat pickier as well. To us, girls, user-ids are used for probably a long period of time, and it somewhat represents us. Thus, we tend to be more critical in picking the right one.

If our name is in use, we'd move on to the next obvious choice, our nicknames (similar to the guys btw). But if that's also used, we try adding in our year of birth in 2 digit form to our names. If that's taken, we move on to our year of birth but in 4 digits instead. Unfortunately, if your name is as common as, for example, "Jane", it would probably be in use as well. So we use this same method to test on our nicks. But if your nick happens to be as common as "Angel", too bad, you're probably out of luck.

After trying and trying, the end result would still be a user-id that somewhat relates to them. Girls are just like that or at least majority.

All this seems pointless right? Well, it is. The point of this entry is not to evaluate how girls pick their user-id but how I found HER blog again.

I refuse to believe that just because I stumbled across her blog, she would completely tear it down. Do I really matter that much (or should I say, does Monkey)? The point is, the first time round, I unintentionally stumbled upon her blog. Now knowing it exist and suddenly it's gone, it really triggered my curiosity. In other words, I have to find out if it's completely gone or just relocated.

Previously when I just found out its gone, I was curious but too busy to bother. This morning, I was doing my usual "searching-for-an-interesting-blog" expedition and remembered this issue I left unsolved. And since, I'm doing "blog-searching". It was time to solve the mystery.

Well, I'm right! She didn't completely remove it just because I stumbled upon it. But to keep me out, it was relocated.

I still don't understand what's with the relocation. It's not like I mentioned her blog address in my blog. In fact, I didn't even mention directly who she was.

Anyway, the question now is, "So how did I manage to find it?" It was pretty easy actually

As mentioned, girls usually create their user-ids using their names or nicks. And if they're in use, they'd move on to adding their year of birth behind. Since she already used her nick previously, relocating means she simply added her year of birth in 2 digit form after her nick. It's quite simple, took me less then 5 minutes to find it.

If she reads this, and gets affected by it, she'd probably do a relocation again. If so, this time round she might want to consider not using her nick at all. After all, the user-id creation logic is commonly practiced, though not everything said is actually proven.

Apart from just the logics, did you know that Blogger (aka Blogspot) is actually owned by Google. Thus, when you do a search, content within Blogger hosted blogs tends to have a higher chance of appearing. That does include content within the tagboard (just to let you know, your tag about your relocation actually appeared when I search your name/nick).

Then again, even if your blog isn't hosted with Blogger you still have a chance on getting listed in search engines. For example, my blog isn't hosted with Blogger. But, if you do a search on "princess sabrina", "princess" or "sabrina", you'd still find my blog.

If you really want to be invisible, use a name/nick that doesn't easily reveal your identity (like XiaLanXue). A more extreme measure would be to PDF/GIF/JPG/etc then upload your content. By doing so, the search engine can't capture your content that may relate back to you (but it's a completely ridiculous measure to take). Another alternative is put your blog on your localhost, in other words, offline. Then again, why create such a hazard for yourself? Just simply remove it since you're worried people would find it.

Oh yes, by appearing on the One Thousand Bloggers doesn't exactly make you invisible at all. Instead, it kinda makes you even more visible.

I'm not trying to be mean. I just don't like being challenged.