Close your eyes and visualize a place. Now open your eyes and find yourself….somewhere totally different! That’s stumbleupon for you. SU is the piñata stuffed with places, people, jokes, food, travel, photography and on and on and on, all in one place. It’s fantastic, fascinating and fun and all we have to do is get our bat, aim and sit in front of the computer and click.
And the incredible thing is that SU can read minds.
On the sinusoidal curve of our highs and lows, SU is the tour guide: at each destination the reaction is “wow”, both with and without the double, triple exclamations and then you put on your hat and wait for the next one to arrive. It’s a total travel! For most of us the net starts and end with the 3 given: google, youtube and facebook. Now pretend you are a kid. What SU does is make you shake hands with other, foreign kids.
Everything seems equally fascinating, equally deserving. The funny is hilarious, the interesting is mesmerizing and everything else is simply thrilling.
No ‘popular searches’ here or the ‘most visited’, but you will guaranteed want to spend at least a minute or two at each site to wherever stumble takes you. It’s like the automatic ball-shooter and all you have to do is attempt it each time. Yes it does make you realize a lot that we don’t know but then we up from our laptop and walk away, scheming a scene where we can show the seen to our friends, in a way that gives us all the credit.
On some sites, our eyes grow wide with wonder and on others it’s the “WHAT!?” kind of expression. There is also the “Oh my god!” and “yuck” and “hmm..interesting” and the “whatevers”. It’s all so worth it though. We basically do a lot of body&facial expressions and twitches and yawns.
And the one thought running through minds is “one more…just one more stumble”.
And it never is.
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