This took me one day from the discovery of the site. I was never told about the site. It was an accident and it is strange how things happen really!
When you trial things out you realise what a butterfly effect is. Let’s look at how I got postcrossing? OK, I love Metal music and Glam Rock. I joined myspace and saw some ‘celebrities’ were on it. I started putting names after the forward slash after myspace.com and seeing what I got. I love WASP, so naturally I tried myspace.com/blackielawless. I got a lovely Scottish metal lady from Fife who lives on Myspace. She posted a lot of bulletins with mteal videos. I clicked on one of the videos and that took me to YouTube. I discovered YouTube having not heard about it before (this was in 2004/5 I think). I was browsing one day and found ‘Crazed Numa Fan’ by Boogerdeunit. I watched all of her blogs and it inspired me to post a video response. The buzz I got from making videos and people sharing my life stories made me feel happy and I escaped from the awful, closed childhood I was living. I have been uploading vlogs to YouTube for two years now and one day I signed in and a featured video ‘7 days’ by j0ames was there. In the sidebar of that video was his Twitter link. I read his Twitter and liked the look of the site so I signed up. After being on Twitter for a while there was this woman called Angel on there. She was very secretive. Her LiveJournal was on private and so were her tweets. You had to tweet her a lot and get to become friends before she added you on Twitter, then you had to be a treasured person before she let you read her LiveJournal. I was one of these priveledged people. She is amazing at photography and started a 365 project. Which inspired me to do so ( http://www.trapezeovertheocean.co.uk ). I Googled ‘365 project’ to get the low down and I found Photojojo, I read their page on 365 projects and signed up to the newsletter. On their website they were advertising Postcrossing. Now I am not one to click on adverts as they are usually about losing 115lbs in three hours with Chinese herbal tea but this one looked legit. I clicked on the ad and it brought me to the site. You can guess what happened next.
