Many of my American comrades and myself included were appalled when we found that we could not access facebook, twitter, and the likes behind the Great Firewall of China. I mean, seriously, how cruel are the censorship enforcers of this country? Why would they ever prevent the innocent social interactions of people across insurmountable distances? Must I wither my time in Asia away, separated from the comforting majestic bosoms of my other mother land, suffocated by a bastion of loneliness, because I cannot easily scrawl a fleetingly inspired opus on my besties’ face… book?
Random chat with Harbin stranger about Chinese business atmosphere
But my friends, I have discovered that in lieu of facebook, China has QQ, which is something like a cross between gmail, MSN, twitter, farmville, etc. where I can make and add my new Chinese friends and build simulation farm property.
I might have Chinese friends, y’all.
And in lieu of Google, China has Baidu.
It’s a whole new digital world out here.
Of course during this time, my leet hacker skills have not been idle and I have used my cyber savvy to penetrate the Internet Blockade to access the aforementioned forbidden URLs, but dude, who needs that when I can Perapera-kun my way through random Chinese chats and Chinese search results to Chinese fluency.
(Seriously, download that Firefox add-on. Then you can make sense of my random Chinese insertions like you native or something. 白人都看得懂！)
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