James Yap Yahoo Group Membership Privileges
Join This Group!
The moment you clicked on that box you are doomed, er, entitled to great things. Let me count the ways.
1. You become an official member of the group (of course, silly).
2. You get to interact with fellow James Yap fans and maybe even end up being friends with your co-members.
3. You get updated on what's happening with James and the team even if you didn't understand what Jason Webb, Dominic Uy, Eric Reyes and Peter Martin said in their reports.
4. You don't need to buy newspapers, magazines or visit their websites for news about James, Purefoods, the PBA, and Philippine basketball in general. Lots of good souls here who share them with us, thank you very much.
5. You start to realize (first time in your life you have been presented real proof) that people are so different from each other, you now stop wondering why the term "world peace" can win you crowns in beauty pageants.
6. You tend to be shocked at the words used by your co-members to emphasize their points. Really, people, forgot what they taught you in GMRC class?
7. You're torn between exasperation and disgust (well okay, pity) at Friendster, Myspace, hi5 and Ringo invitations sent to the whole group. (Ooh, you've got a lot of friends, great! So how do you know Dobby? What, you don't know who he is and you've got him in your list?! Whoa, this is a popularity contest!)
Same goes to forwarded e-mails that do nothing but clog your inbox.
8. You begin to accept that not everybody who has an e-mail account knows how to reply to e-mails. You just have to be patient, look for it in the middle, at the bottom of the page and sometimes replies come with the wrong replies. It will force you to ask yourself if it's just you or your computer, which is which?
9. If you haven't realized it yet, you have now, the group, the perfect example of what's wrong with our society. That you can always ridicule, malign, curse to oblivion, and insult a public figure (in our case, the players, the coaching staff, the management, James sometimes and the girls in his life) and be perfectly fine with it. But the moment you do the same thing to non-public figures (that means all of us here) it's like you've just committed the most heinous crime known to mankind.
And if you try to be clever by giving someone a dose of his own medicine, that someone will cry foul and tell the whole group how mean you are. C'mon, you reap what you sow, man!
9. Patience is a virtue. So they say. So if your co-members said something stupid, just grin and bear it. It's your choice you joined this group.
10. This may sum it all up, being a member of this group forced my gray matter working double time to answer a question that popped up on my mind the first week I'm a member here. Why do the members here hate every girl who gets involved with James?
Why indeed?
See, these are all but just few of the reasons why you are so lucky you are a member of this group. So just sit back and relax when you're reading your mails.
Important Rule:
There is nothing wrong with voicing your own opinion but everything comes with responsibility. Remember the golden rule. Treat others only in ways that you're willing to be treated in the same exact situation. And please, please don't speak about things you know nothing of.
