The Sims Onstage Beta

EA has finally jumped on the social networking site bandwagon by launching the simsonstage.ea.com site. Ofcourse I signed up!!! :-)

They just realized that simmers are a ready made community/social network that just needs transposing to an official networking site... that allows others to join - without having to register a bought game. Ha ha ha!

Fact is, the sims/sims2 sites are already social networking sites ... what with the exchange, the commenting on blogs, the BBS - same stuff you find on other sites.

SimsOnStage is actually a fun site ... I just started looking around and enjoyed the karaoke page ... EA has a list of music you can sing to, complete with lyrics scrolling across the screen. If you think you're good enough or just in it for fun, you can record yourself singing to the song and post it so others can view your clip and rate you. Lovely, eh?

Orkut entry

This is what getting stuck at home during vacation because of bad weather does ... I've managed to look up a lot of Google services .... and since I already have gmail, blogger, YouTube and Picasa ... why not add Orkut? Although I have no idea if someone I know is in this network. Ha ha ha!

Like I said, don't know anyone who's in Orkut ... so I did some searching using keywords like my school, my city, and ofcourse my country. Found something amusing ... if you'll look at my bookmarks, you'll find accounts opened in the name of Philippine actresses. I doubt the owners of those sites are who they claim to be. I could be wrong. I'm probably right.

Decided to join a community instead ... two actually, but the membership for the second one is still pending... they're communities interested in Sims 2 ... the only video game I can say I am addicted to. Before this, the only forum about Sims2 I've visited is the official one (thesims2.ea.com) ... so it's a different experience to actually see a few posts about obtaining the game illegally and using crack codes. He he he!