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07-15-2016, 03:45 PM #21
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07-15-2016, 04:03 PM #22
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07-15-2016, 04:08 PM #23
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
Welcome! I've just returned after a long time away. Even though my join date says 2011, I've been here since 2002-03... when NP first started. We changed to a different online platform and had to re-register, which is why the oldest dates probably show up as 2011. But we're the OGs of online hair communities! lol
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07-22-2016, 05:54 PM #24
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese Proverb
"Fall seven times a day, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
“All truth is good, but not all truth is good to say.” - African Proverb
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10-08-2016, 12:02 AM #25
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
Man....it's been a minute since I've been here, I used to swing by each year around my Napaversary May 2003. You guys have brought back so many memories, my current knowledge of natural hair would not be where it is if it wasn't for Nappturality. I started with a fade that grew into a fro, locs, fro, locs, fro, and now I'm two years into this set of locs. I think of everyone when I'm in the hair care isles of stores, especially when I see transitioning kits. Say what now? As you all mentioned social media has made info easier to obtain. I can go to YT and watch videos on twist-outs, locs, etc... Back in the day all I had was NP and Fotki!
Wow, just remembering the range of personalities on here....man. I'm going to walk down memory lane, won't you join me? I think it goes without saying 'Mama Dee'
MedusaNegrita
CatSuga
NappturalyMe-This was my first introduction to the NP Detectives! They got to the bottom of her story and the other lady who was scamming with t-shirts.
Jams
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Oh and the guys that used to be here, Aje and I think there was more. Also, that cat who would stalk the site and then talk mess about us in his blog, he had those white dogs.
ETA: It would be so cool to have a 'class reunion' to see how everyone is doing.Last edited by Hennessy; 10-08-2016 at 12:06 AM.
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10-08-2016, 08:52 PM #26
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
I check in about once per year, but my hair routine is pretty unchanged, I'm super busy, and I didn't agree with some of the "philosophies" on NP. It's a shame that it isn't popular anymore because it's P.O.V. is still needed.
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10-10-2016, 07:25 PM #27
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
I, too, miss the discussions. Most of my social media time is spent on facebook, and I have IG and Twitter as well, but my interactions on those sites rarely focus on hair. I will probably always check in from time to time, though, and I plan to stay financial, even when I'm not on here much. So many valuable threads to sift through, even when there are no recent discussions to join. For a while I couldn't log in (something odd with Chrome), but I just realized that I can get on just fine with Firefox, so that's what I'll do.
I also miss the weight loss threads on here....
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10-14-2016, 08:07 PM #28
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
@CC I have the same issues with logging in. Sometimes the site seems to go down. I just prefer to keep my hair stuff separate from my FB stuff-bc so many in my real life feed do NOT get the hair thing, lol. Oh well, just like politics, we are back where we were pre 2003-no where to congregate. I try to engage on YT-just not feelin' it. There's a different consciousness there that I can quite connect with.
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11-26-2016, 10:17 PM #29
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
I'll be real with you all.
When I launched this place it was done in order to be a place where natural hair people could gather and learn from each other. I intended it to be a library, where the truth could be found. I knew in my heart that there would be opportunists out there, people who would use Nappturality to enrich themselves because that is what humans do.
As the years went by, I still wanted to maintain what the original purpose was. I had pressure to make Nappturality-brand hair products, to become more commercialized and I did consider it. But in the end I thought that would change the nature of the site from one of knowledge to one of pushing products and becoming biased. So I resisted.
I never received a great deal of financial support, though there had always been a core of wonderfully, generous people who supported the website financially which was a great help to me get through. But like a lot of Black ventures, I never received any significant financial support or service support, so I was unable to expand in the ways I wanted to expand. I had to do a lot of the work myself and sometimes I got things wrong - unable to pay the $thousands I needed for professional services I did what I could do the best I could do.
Other websites launched off Nappturality.com. Hair products and businesses sprung up off Nappturality and people formed their own communities around their businesses. No one really gave back anything to Nappturality. The focus left natural hair and refocused on celebrities, curl definition and consumerism - areas I was not and am still not interested in. Am I salty? No, it is human nature to get what you can get to make it in this world and I didn't start this place to become a millionaire product guru or a curly hair YT blogger.
Sure, I went through a ***** it* phase, because I'm human. But that didn't last long and I kept going anyway.
YouTube came, then Facebook came and people went there in droves to those powerhouses of white money and influence. Eventually I had to create a page there as well just to keep up. From that point, the movement fractured.
The only reason I continue to pay the bills each month for this massive natural hair library without a benefactor is because I know there is still a need for knowledge out there and people still visit in their hundreds to find information. So for me it is worthwhile to be here even if for others, who place more value on popularity than actual truthful knowledge about our hair and our lives, it isn't. I am still fighting the same battles I fought in the beginning. People are still in the matrix. The only difference is that now it is a bigger matrix. People are being conned into miracle hair products still looking for that *good hair* they see on TV and I won't play into that slave mentality. I see all these "natural hair" products now being owned by white companies, again, taking black folks money for crap products full of chemicals.
And here we are.
I can't compete with white money and power. I can't compete with Zuckerberg or Instagram or Twitter. I am going to continue to try and build the site and change and if people don't come, well that's fine. I will know that I am doing my best to help Black women and that's it. The OGs are older, wiser, have moved on with lives. Young naturals are more interested in whose natural hair looks the most like Beyonce's weave than why they are afraid of their hair texture. So there it is and here I am.
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I'm older, wiser but I am not going to take Nappturality down, even if no one visits again. Because here is where it all started."The truth is, your natural hair, in all its texture, is the hair that is ideal for YOU.."
~Dee~
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11-26-2016, 10:26 PM #30
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Re: Quite Frustrated With Disjointed Natural Hair Communications Online Today
Thank you, Dee. For keeping it open.
As I go through different stages of my natural life, I'm always back at Napptural to see what is going on and see if I can glean from this library. I've been natural for over 6 years now, and I am hoping to go for locs- and naturally i'm here first.
THANK YOU- and I wish there was still an active community here!
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