Written by Liting 2022 Cohort
When I was growing up, many websites sharpened my personality and interest habits. Some are memories of the times; some are very useful and have become more extensive, which I still use. But these sites all played a vital role in my life.
RenRen
In my middle school stage, everyone used “RenRen”. It is like a Chinese Linkedin, but you allow to connect with your schoolmate. When you sign in, you must use your specific school IP or email address, ensuring most users are students. In Renren, we often publish logs, leave comments on classmates’ articles, and share life photos, games, music, etc. At that time, the most popular activity is “Happy Farm”! – this is a game that focuses on cultivating food on your digital farm. The funny way is you can secretly steal vegetables from your friends’ farm! I still remember that we secretly stole vegetables from friends’ farm pages every day after class! And we also compared with others who grow more vegetables.
FFFFOUND! 2007- 2017
In high school, I found this, my favourite unique and creative website. In the beginning, I was attracted by FFFFOUND’s recommended method. You can use any picture to search, and FFFFOUND will capture a similar content style for you. I went to FFFFOUND every day for a long time to see what unique content it would recommend today. But, FFFFound is different from Pinterest. It does not require users to register an account nor provides upload and download functions. FFFFound finds the content you may be interested in from the Internet, which satisfies my curiosity and inspires many users.
VICE
VICE is a global youth media (formerly known as Voice of Montreal). VICE focuses on youth culture, and it was my favourite political news, art news, and cultural community website when I was in college. The start is that a friend reposted an article about “subculture” on VICE China. After that, I found this kind of street entertainment article very fascinating. Some odd points of view in VICE’s articles often inspire me. In addition, reading the site was like discussing odd points of view with a group of old friends on the Internet.
I still occasionally watch “The Creator Project channel “on VICE. Because they often interview artists I like and help me track the new media art trend.