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Sliverfox

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Seeing the post about leaving,,made me realize I have hardly posted any in the 4 years I've been here.

No good excuse for that,,, well,, life gets in the way of the 'net, is that excuse enough?

In the years I've been online have visited various sites/ chat rooms.
Learned that the typed word does not express well enough ones thoughts.

A funny/ silly or stupid post by its author may be an insult to another.
 

Sliverfox said:
Seeing the post about leaving,,made me realize I have hardly posted any in the 4 years I've been here.

No good excuse for that,,, well,, life gets in the way of the 'net, is that excuse enough?

In the years I've been online have visited various sites/ chat rooms.
Learned that the typed word does not express well enough ones thoughts.

A funny/ silly or stupid post by its author may be an insult to another.
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So true. Neither humor nor sarcasm can be easily conveyed with just the written word.
 
I've been a member of various forums for several years and have made good friends with a few although we haven't seen each other IRL.

What I've experienced is there will be people drawn to me based on what I write. It all starts with, "Hey! can we talk?" type of PMs and that is the start of a beautiful friendship.
There are also those who don't like what I write even if I am careful not to offend anyone. I apologize when I'm wrong but not if I'm honest.
 
if only people weren't so quick to take offence... without checking first that offence was meant. The good use of emoticons here should convey to most the intent of a post.

That said there will always be people who want to take offence for the sake of starting a fight... I've had that happen more times than I care to recall..both here , lots of other forums, as a member and a Mod...

The rule should be, don't be too ready to offend and don't be too quick to take offence... .
 
Some of my dearest friends and warmest friendships started off online, years ago. We've since gone on to have get togethers, visits to each other's homes, maintaining the friendships long after the forum or group has disbanded.

I personally am very comfortable posting online. I take pains to express exactly what I mean because I can take however much time I need to write, edit, re-read, use the appropriate emoji to further emphasize a point etc.

I am articulate in person too, and have way more real life interactions than online ones. Still, the typed word for me does a better overall job of communicating my thoughts faster and more clearly than in person communication.
 
I haven't met any posters in real life, but have long-time friends (20 yrs.) on another forum. I talk on the phone with one in NYC fairly often.

I met my best friend online around 1999 (not on a forum), and stayed with her and her husband on my first trip to Australia, and other times as well. We have many common interests (mainly, stained-glass and pottery). She does commissioned work and had a tea/pottery shop at one time. We had a lot of enjoyable times together. Wish we didn't have all that distance between us.
 
I've met loads of people from the forums...and we've had lunches, dinners, and days out over the years in groups and eventually made several individual female friends from the groups, and we've often met up for lunches or coffee.. ..( all British forums of course)... people are so often nothing like they appear to be on forums...for good and for bad. Many who come across in a certain way are completely different in real life .
 
I have always expressed myself better through writing than any other way. I write in a journal every day or so and always have. I used to belong to a large homesteading forum and am still friends with most of those people on Facebook. There are times I want to withdraw from all online social media because people are so hateful and say things showing how little they care about each other. You don't know what is true and what is not and I am just tired of it all. My mother always said not to discuss religion, politics or money and she was right.
 

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