InsaneJournal

Journals, along with our internet media community thetubes, can be used for tons of different in-game communication. The possibility is really only limited by your imagination. Below is a list of ideas and resources that you may want to use. Keep in mind none of this is required and is meant only to enhance your enjoyment of the game. Sometimes a quick facespace update is all you have time for.

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Facespace

Good ole social networking! We recommend that you post your actual Facespace page in your character's journal. Thanks to storybookending there's a pretty sexy code already written up that you are free to use here! (Please do not remove the credit. That's just rude.)

For updating your Facespace status, we recommend that you do so on thetubes so that tags may be used to organize online communication. You may also want to edit your Facespace page to include links to your FaceSpace posts, status updates or whatever you like. Use the OOC board to help each other out with editing.

Chitter

Since our Facebook knockoff has its own less than original name, it seemed our Twitter knockoff should also be a little different. Once you've posted a message, other characters may reply with their own chitter messages by replying to that specific post. We recommend that you post chitter updates in thetubes so that tags can be used to organize communication. Example format:

urusername: @someone Remember to keep your message under 140 characters, not that anyone will really be counting. #hashtag.

<center><table width=550><tr><td><img src="[YOUR USER PIC HERE]" height=50></td><td valign="top"><font face="trebuchet ms" size=3><b>urusername:</b> @<font color="blue">someone</font color> Remember to keep your message under 140 characters, not that anyone will really be counting. <font color="blue">#hashtag</font color>.</font face></td></tr></table></center>

Email, Instant Messages and Text Messages

Emails and Instant Messages may be posted on your character's journal or on thetubes. If you use thetubes please feel free to use tags to organize all your electronic communication. When using email be sure to include the sender, recipient and subject line. Feel free to format IM conversations however your character's IM client works. Same with text messages!

Voicemail

Your character has a cell phone, right? We recommend putting a sticky post on your character's journal with what their voicemail sounds like. That way other characters can leave them late night drunk dial messages. (D'aw. Feel the love!)

Dropbox

The dropbox is the out of character version of the voicemail. Sometimes it's just easier to send a note to someone else on their journal than it is to send off an email or wait for them to sign onto AIM. You may want to screen all replies to your OOC dropbox should you decide to create one.

Good Ole Pen & Paper

Yes. Some characters keep a journal or a diary. Weird, huh? If your character uses a journal be sure to specify if they're using the ancient pen and paper technique or an online journal system.