err what part of the world

[Guest guest]

what part of the world you guys from, if i knew we could chat in post

in fast relay insted of me waiting forever it seems to hear what you

think. i am in boise idaho usa, and i am on the net as soon as i get

home, god i love the net, befor the networks really got off the

ground i had no life at all, now with the net and the chats,,,,

hehehe on the chats people are just as blind as me it seems, i still

mess up alot with people, esp when i focus on them, but they just see

my words and love who i am, i am poetic and romantic and caring and

listen to them whine and cry and i care, just i focus too much and

over kill them with my attentions, i didnt really got into the chats

though untill like 4 months ago. if i ever get passed being to blunt

and forword and too fast with people maybe i can get some real dates

from meeting girls on the net, that would be a joy. a big change for

me from 1-3 dates a decade to 1-3 dates a year. i have a hard time

even wanting to deal with people anymore, but i have too unless i

want to die alone.

[Guest guest]

I'm from Virginia and Alabama. An odd situation explained since I am a resident in both states due to having property in both.

[Guest guest]

Sorry, male, Central Norway here.

>

> what part of the world you guys from, if i knew we could chat in

post

> in fast relay insted of me waiting forever it seems to hear what

you

> think. i am in boise idaho usa, and i am on the net as soon as i

get

> home, god i love the net, befor the networks really got off the

> ground i had no life at all, now with the net and the chats,,,,

> hehehe on the chats people are just as blind as me it seems, i

still

> mess up alot with people, esp when i focus on them, but they just

see

> my words and love who i am, i am poetic and romantic and caring and

> listen to them whine and cry and i care, just i focus too much and

> over kill them with my attentions, i didnt really got into the

chats

> though untill like 4 months ago. if i ever get passed being to

blunt

> and forword and too fast with people maybe i can get some real

dates

> from meeting girls on the net, that would be a joy. a big change

for

> me from 1-3 dates a decade to 1-3 dates a year. i have a hard time

> even wanting to deal with people anymore, but i have too unless i

> want to die alone.

[Guest guest]

At 02:44 PM 10/26/04 -0000, ;`~+Lonely_Lad+~`; wrote:

>

>

>what part of the world you guys from, if i knew we could chat in post

>in fast relay insted of me waiting forever it seems to hear what you

>think. i am in boise idaho usa,

not far from me. I'm in southeastern Idaho.

>and i am on the net as soon as i get

>home, god i love the net, befor the networks really got off the

>ground i had no life at all

I've been glued to the computer screen since the mid-1980s. Things have

really taken off in the last decade online as far as how many people there

are to talk to and how many different ways to find them, but I have always

found my friends online, even back in the days when I had to set up a BBS

system on my own computer and hook the phone line into it and people would

directly call my home, one at a time, and rea dand post to a message board.

I used to build all kinds of neat contraptions like line noise suppressors

to make my BBS run more efficiently. I haven't soldered anything in years,

but sometimes I think about how much fun it was and want to do it again. I

learned a lot of things by setting up BBSes and I was able to make friends

and socialize for the first time in my life! It was exhilarating.

Sometimes we'd have " face to face " meetings, usually at a pizza parlor, and

by then everyone knew each other so well from typing to one another that

people just lovingly accepted the strangeness we all had in person. I think

pretty much everybody who called up local BBSes back in the 1980s was some

kind of " freak " and that was a really good thing.

When more people began to get public access to the internet in the early

1990s, we were worried on the BBSes. We said that the local BBS was like a

front porch where you sit and sip lemonade with your neighbors and the

internet was a vast internation region where everyone would be strangers,

not the people just down the street. We were frightened about what we would

lose when the " front porches " went away as everyone got sucked in to the

" information superhighway. " Some of those predictions were true -- we lost

a lot of the regional niche feeling -- but we also didn't realize how much

it would open up our worlds to go international.

I remember, back around 1990, the first time I sent e-mail to someone in

another country and got a reply back. I wrote to a professor in Ireland,

asking a question about something I thought he might know the answer to and

I got his reply in about fifteen minutes! I was literally jumping up and

down with excitement! I used to have an Irish pen pal and I would wait

WEEKS to get a letter from her. Here I got a " letter " from Ireland in just

a quarter of an hour! I kind of laugh now at that, but it was a really big

deal at the time.

When I moved for a few years to Chicago, I made friends on a Chicago e-list

before I ever left for the city. When I got there, I already had three

friends waiting for me! I only lived in Chicago for a short time but I met

so many people there it was amazing to me. A few of them are still my

friends to this day. My best friend in the whole world lies in Chicago and

I only met her in person three times but we talk online nearly every day.

She also has Asperger's but didn't realize it (she had been diagnosed with

ADD) until I began telling her about it. Then she went to be re-tested and

learned that she had it too.

I have been " addicted to the net " for a couple of decades now. I don't see

anything wrong with it. Every once in a while, someone will make a

disparaging comment about people who spend a lot of time online, but I

honestly don't see any problem with it at all .. so long as a person still

takes care of their health and their basic life obligations. I eat well, I

exercise, I bathe regularly, I make it to class (usually on time) and I

spend time with my pets and my partner. The fact that I spend the rest of

my waking hours sitting in front of a screen is between me and the people I

talk to online! No one has a true right to judge my life as being bizarre

or deficient in some way because of how I have chosen to spend my free time.

The same goes for anyone else still reading this -- don't ever let people

make you feel lesser or strange because you love the freedom and

stimulation your computer offers you!

Sparrow