10-10-2019, 03:25 PM
Thank you for the suggestions!
I am actually very interested in making YouTube videos. I am a big Star Wars fan and would like to present my fan theories and my analysis of the movies. However, I am not a visual person at all, and I have no idea how to make YouTube videos.Can anyone recommend some YouTube videos apps?
I'm not sure I will be able to make a decent YouTube video even with a good app-- I can't even take a decent selfie. But, I've heard that YouTube videos are easy to make for people who have experience and talent I really should try to conserve my money, but if it were possible to get someone to take my ideas and make them into a video at a cost of say, 10 dollars per minute of video, I would probably be willing to give that a try. Any ideas for websites where I could hire someone to make a video? I am also willing to pay $100 or maybe more for an app, rather than use a free one, if the premium app will make it easier to create a decent video.
I have reached out to three friends via email/Facebook message. One of them plans to meet me for dinner next weekend, so that's good. The other two didn't reply at all, but I am hoping maybe they just didn't get my messages for some reason. I'm trying to get my courage up to try again.
As for interacting via websites, I used to be extremely active on a Harry Potter forum, back when the books were coming out. The one friend who is meeting me for lunch is someone I met via Harry Potter fandom. (The others all live 1000+ plus miles away, and I am no longer well enough to travel.)
Before that, back in the pre-web days, I was a moderator on a local BBS my university ran. Interacting online was brand new, and it really felt like we were explorers on some new frontier. (This was the mid-1980s.) That was great and we had intense discussions on all sorts of things. I made some good friends through that University BBS, but they were mostly college students who soon moved away. As soon as I graduated, I no longer had access and I don't even know if anything similar now exists. I am on a local web forum now, but it's not very active -- it's really just for local things such as posting about lost pets and asking for dentist recommendations.
I played D&D when I was young, but my demographics (which I probably should have stated) are that I am female and pushing 60. One of the problems I run into online are "incel" type young men who are very hostile to women. The first time I tried posting on Reddit, I immediately got called a "piece of s**t", something that I had never been called in my entire life. I'm not willing to pretend that I'm male, and anyway, I'm not going to find people who want to friends with an older woman by pretending to be a young guy.
Bj990, thank you for sharing your experiences. Some workplaces are much friendlier than others -- I hope you will get a job with coworkers that are more friendly. Apps for meeting people would be good. I have heard that Meetup is a good site. Are there any other ones you can recommend, that are for friendships rather than dating/sex?
I am actually very interested in making YouTube videos. I am a big Star Wars fan and would like to present my fan theories and my analysis of the movies. However, I am not a visual person at all, and I have no idea how to make YouTube videos.Can anyone recommend some YouTube videos apps?
I'm not sure I will be able to make a decent YouTube video even with a good app-- I can't even take a decent selfie. But, I've heard that YouTube videos are easy to make for people who have experience and talent I really should try to conserve my money, but if it were possible to get someone to take my ideas and make them into a video at a cost of say, 10 dollars per minute of video, I would probably be willing to give that a try. Any ideas for websites where I could hire someone to make a video? I am also willing to pay $100 or maybe more for an app, rather than use a free one, if the premium app will make it easier to create a decent video.
I have reached out to three friends via email/Facebook message. One of them plans to meet me for dinner next weekend, so that's good. The other two didn't reply at all, but I am hoping maybe they just didn't get my messages for some reason. I'm trying to get my courage up to try again.
As for interacting via websites, I used to be extremely active on a Harry Potter forum, back when the books were coming out. The one friend who is meeting me for lunch is someone I met via Harry Potter fandom. (The others all live 1000+ plus miles away, and I am no longer well enough to travel.)
Before that, back in the pre-web days, I was a moderator on a local BBS my university ran. Interacting online was brand new, and it really felt like we were explorers on some new frontier. (This was the mid-1980s.) That was great and we had intense discussions on all sorts of things. I made some good friends through that University BBS, but they were mostly college students who soon moved away. As soon as I graduated, I no longer had access and I don't even know if anything similar now exists. I am on a local web forum now, but it's not very active -- it's really just for local things such as posting about lost pets and asking for dentist recommendations.
I played D&D when I was young, but my demographics (which I probably should have stated) are that I am female and pushing 60. One of the problems I run into online are "incel" type young men who are very hostile to women. The first time I tried posting on Reddit, I immediately got called a "piece of s**t", something that I had never been called in my entire life. I'm not willing to pretend that I'm male, and anyway, I'm not going to find people who want to friends with an older woman by pretending to be a young guy.
Bj990, thank you for sharing your experiences. Some workplaces are much friendlier than others -- I hope you will get a job with coworkers that are more friendly. Apps for meeting people would be good. I have heard that Meetup is a good site. Are there any other ones you can recommend, that are for friendships rather than dating/sex?