blocked since mid-May or so, and even though I can continue posting to
the blog through email, I can't actually check for comments or edit
the blog, so basically it's sapped my desire to do anything with the
shangbert blog.
Anyhow, Facebook, which survived the blocking of other social
networking sites leading up to and after the may 35th anniversary, has
just been blocked this week (tuesday afternoon to be exact) b/c of the
stuff going on in xinjiang province. At first, I felt like my right
arm had been cut-off. Most of the time I spend online is on Facebook
or latimes.com/sports, and maybe sometimes google news or yahoo
sports. I wanted to hold a dinner at my place with friends this
Saturday and use Facebook invites to get the word out, but now I
can't. I guess you don't realize how much you depend on something
until it's gone. There's a lot of FB friends, where I don't actually
have their personal contact information. So oh well. I'll have to
find another weekend to host a dinner party.
And don't even get me started on youtube, which has been blocked since
April. There's nowhere I can go now to watch hilarious clips of
Family Guy. You have no idea how important that is to my daily life.
Just kidding. Still, it'd be nice to access youtube again.
Other than Great Firewall issues, my lifestyle in Shanghai is pretty
cool. I'll touch upon that in a future post. Hope everyone is well.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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