Addicted to Yelp

I’ve been sick this week, and I’ve become totally addicted to Yelp! (Yes, Wordsteal is still down, but I’m learning to live without it.) I’ve written an insane amount of reviews while hunkered down on my couch with my purring cat and mug of Trader Joe’s Irish Breakfast Tea.

I think Yelp is actually a brilliant social networking tool. You can compliment people, and vote on reviews being cool/useful/funny. I think that positive reinforcement is what brings people back. I know I love when I get compliments on a review. I’ve even gotten messages from friendly local “Yelpers”, which is super cool. They have fun events and stuff too. Once I’m no longer a newbie, perhaps I will start attending some of them.

I joined Yelp a while ago for the sole purpose of writing a bad review of The Courtside Karaoke, and then I forgot about it. It’s really a fun site. I like to dine out, so I had lots of restaurants to review. I just went through a phase where I reviewed a bunch of record stores. We collect records.

Anyway, it’s a fun site. I’m having a good time with it and I really like writing reviews.

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