a new phenomenon.

People I know actually collect things that are online.  One boasts 2000 funn clips stored on YouTube-  or someone collects pictures of funny animals.  These are a bit different from making your old photo album, or taping something special off the TV I think.  It can be lost as easily as you found it and there is an intangible aspect to this...I like having the items in my home that I can hold or show someone.  If you colect images online, you are just sitting at the computer-
and, having collected online, you really just pushed a few buttons...you didn't scour the yeard sales or fight someone at a bargain bin for anything.

I am on the fence, but do you think collecting things online is kinda weird?

Remember...I don't mean buying on Ebay. I mean collecting virtual things.

  Guilty as charged.  Interesting topic and I'mean that in a good way... ;)

  I save pics of all kinds of things: pics of toys or posters and related garbage of things I used to have or haven't seen in a long time.  Case in point - I found piccys of the Batman talking alarm clock I had when I was a kid.  A boombox I got for Christmas in 1981. My Masketron action figure.  Piccys of my old Mongoose BMX (same color, same MotoMags, same pads ::)).  I can't find this stuff anywhere else.  Can't say that I would like to own them once more, but it's nice seeing them again, even if it's only a picture.  Sooner or later most of this stuff ends-up deleted, anyway, when I need to make room on the 'puter...

welll, that kinda makes sense to me.  doing this for nostalgic reasons.

:)

welll, that kinda makes sense to me.  doing this for nostalgic reasons.

:)


  I mean, seriously, who'd want to own this thing, for real?  Never woke me up anyway...

  http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1193336/34cd_1.JPG

I collect LOL pictures. :-[

I collect unhappy thoughts.
:-\\

I collect videos.  Some stuff they don't have out anywhere els but the internet.

I collect dead relatives online.  ;D

I collect dead relatives on line.  ;D


I've found quite a few of my "living impaired" relatives on line.  Cruising genealogy sites is fun. :)

I collect songs, retro pictures, bookmarks to retro/cool websites....stuff like that.

I collect unhappy thoughts.
:-\\


  I collect spores, molds and fungus...

  I collect spores, molds and fungus...


sure, if you sit still too long.


ok, you're convincing me.

I collect cute little animated kitties pictures online.  I'm easily amused.  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/catmilk.gif http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/cat3.gif

sure, if you sit still too long.


ok, you're convincing me.



  Eagon Spengler collects weird things... ;)

  By collecting things you meant photos of things, like merchandise, that you may or may not have actually bought, right?  Not just pictures in general...

sure, if you sit still too long.


ok, you're convincing me.


Rimshot: Ba-da-boom! Ba-da-bing!
;D