FoX
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Ya know, I was initially prepared to write a rather long post in which I used sociological theory to break down the stage of evolution the Social community was undegoing at this point in time, but then it occurred to me: this is Social, not Spirituality and Personal Philosophy.
So I'll make this a medium-length post instead:
There are generally three main purposes for which people use Bluelight Social.
1)For simple voyeuristic amusement's sake, and as a platform to express their ideas.
2)To be able to catch up on the day-to-day activities of people they know and care about.
3)To be able to, in a virtual form, jump up and down and say "Look at me! Look at me!"
Of the three, the third is, in my experience, often utterly futile due to volume of posting here and the (generally) vacuous nature of the threads. If people aren't already watching for your name because of either contribution s to another, less high traffic form, participation in IRC, or personal contact with other Bluelighters via a meetup, it is VERY unlikely that anyone will ever distinguish you from 'the crowd' unless you posess either extraordinary wit or post at an astonishing rate...in other words, only extreme quantity or extreme quality gain recognition in Social based on posting alone. These extremes become larger and larger as the Bluelight community in general grows...bear in mind that Bluelight has over 25,000 registered members and is still growing at an astonishing rate.
People like to use 'high school' as a metaphor for the social structure of the board, but it would be much more accurate to compare it to a large public university, which is, based on scale and intellectual environment, a MUCH different place.
I realize that I probably just wasted about thirty minutes of my life trying to examine this issue in any sort of intellectual depth...people will still perceive what they want to perceive, and that fact compounded by the emotional reaction people have to 'being ignored' (in their perception) makes this doubly difficult to look at in any other way other than through the lens of personal myopia.
Perhaps those that are seeking personal recognition through their participation in this forum will achieve it through bemoaning their lack of personal recognition. If this is so, perhaps all this useless dithering will have achieved something, rather than being just another contribution to the negativity of the world we unfortunately have made for ourselves to live in.
If your primary motivation for posting in the Social forum is some sort of personal validation, then I suggest that you are wasting your time, and would be better served investing your efforts in a more potentially fruitful manner.
If this post offends anyone I apologize, but I've been silent on this issue for way too long.
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If it's orange and fuzzy, it's FoXy....
"Ed Meese should be ass-fucked by an acid-crazed elk."-Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"This is what you get,
When you mess with Us."-Radiohead, "Karma Police"
[This message has been edited by FoX (edited 26 September 2001).]
So I'll make this a medium-length post instead:
There are generally three main purposes for which people use Bluelight Social.
1)For simple voyeuristic amusement's sake, and as a platform to express their ideas.
2)To be able to catch up on the day-to-day activities of people they know and care about.
3)To be able to, in a virtual form, jump up and down and say "Look at me! Look at me!"
Of the three, the third is, in my experience, often utterly futile due to volume of posting here and the (generally) vacuous nature of the threads. If people aren't already watching for your name because of either contribution s to another, less high traffic form, participation in IRC, or personal contact with other Bluelighters via a meetup, it is VERY unlikely that anyone will ever distinguish you from 'the crowd' unless you posess either extraordinary wit or post at an astonishing rate...in other words, only extreme quantity or extreme quality gain recognition in Social based on posting alone. These extremes become larger and larger as the Bluelight community in general grows...bear in mind that Bluelight has over 25,000 registered members and is still growing at an astonishing rate.
People like to use 'high school' as a metaphor for the social structure of the board, but it would be much more accurate to compare it to a large public university, which is, based on scale and intellectual environment, a MUCH different place.
I realize that I probably just wasted about thirty minutes of my life trying to examine this issue in any sort of intellectual depth...people will still perceive what they want to perceive, and that fact compounded by the emotional reaction people have to 'being ignored' (in their perception) makes this doubly difficult to look at in any other way other than through the lens of personal myopia.
Perhaps those that are seeking personal recognition through their participation in this forum will achieve it through bemoaning their lack of personal recognition. If this is so, perhaps all this useless dithering will have achieved something, rather than being just another contribution to the negativity of the world we unfortunately have made for ourselves to live in.
If your primary motivation for posting in the Social forum is some sort of personal validation, then I suggest that you are wasting your time, and would be better served investing your efforts in a more potentially fruitful manner.
If this post offends anyone I apologize, but I've been silent on this issue for way too long.
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If it's orange and fuzzy, it's FoXy....
"Ed Meese should be ass-fucked by an acid-crazed elk."-Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"This is what you get,
When you mess with Us."-Radiohead, "Karma Police"
[This message has been edited by FoX (edited 26 September 2001).]
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