lil angel15
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Acid Tongue 829 - Hooked Online - 2006/10/06
Are you a forum junkie? The sort of person who sits in front of a computer all day, wondering if the boss is logging their keystrokes? You risk losing your job, but you’re an addict, for nothing can overcome the feeling of logging onto your favourite website, even if the company’s electronic policy expressly forbids it. And eight hours is rarely enough. To overcome that, you rush home quickly to check if you have any private messages from the anonymous online-pals you have made, or to see if someone has replied to your thread about whether it’s wrong to club alone at 32, or if you’re the only one who sees fit to spend $300 on a fabulous pair of designer jeans. And does depression set in when you have an off-day? The day no one reads your post or replies with witty candor to a comment you made? Or if your thread got trumped by another, far less important and constructive than yours? If that sounds like you, consider yourself a strong candidate for a 21st century phenomenon – you are a forum junkie!
Interestingly, just five years ago, Internet forums were in their infancy – too slow and poorly organised to be a viable alternative to simple surfing. So bad in fact, that they made navigating cumbersome and uninteresting. Today, they are coded brilliantly, with options for fast replies, personal messages, online chat and ratings systems that grade you on your obsessive inclinations. How many posts you make and subsequently how superior you are to your contemporaries, how many threads you have started and what your avatar and signatures look like, as well as the various ways you have opened your life to others. No less, have you ever met or interacted with these mysterious people? Christ, you may as well list your name and phone number online, just to make it easier for us to contact one another. It comes out anyway, right?
So where from here? Well, the new forum junkie is now far more. They are a committed blogger, they frequent store sales, bars and clubs with their online-friends, they are a devoted group of people with an unswerving desire to be first. Their desire for knowledge, gossip and general nonsense says a lot about their belief-set and their principles.
Question is, what makes these darn forums so addictive? They cause grief in relationships and hog bandwidth, they could be considered an evil of modern society, a completely unbeneficial way of eroding the precious time we have anyway. Indeed, where our parents would have played hopscotch and read books, we are surfing incessantly, looking for valuable insights into the thoughts and opinions of people we’ve never met, people often on the other side of the globe. Are we that vain, that we seek endorsement from the nameless? Yes, for fucks sake! Got a problem?
RK
ps- please appreciate the irony of posting this in an Internet forum. Thank you.
From HERE
You know it's referring to you!!!!!! :D
Are you a forum junkie? The sort of person who sits in front of a computer all day, wondering if the boss is logging their keystrokes? You risk losing your job, but you’re an addict, for nothing can overcome the feeling of logging onto your favourite website, even if the company’s electronic policy expressly forbids it. And eight hours is rarely enough. To overcome that, you rush home quickly to check if you have any private messages from the anonymous online-pals you have made, or to see if someone has replied to your thread about whether it’s wrong to club alone at 32, or if you’re the only one who sees fit to spend $300 on a fabulous pair of designer jeans. And does depression set in when you have an off-day? The day no one reads your post or replies with witty candor to a comment you made? Or if your thread got trumped by another, far less important and constructive than yours? If that sounds like you, consider yourself a strong candidate for a 21st century phenomenon – you are a forum junkie!
Interestingly, just five years ago, Internet forums were in their infancy – too slow and poorly organised to be a viable alternative to simple surfing. So bad in fact, that they made navigating cumbersome and uninteresting. Today, they are coded brilliantly, with options for fast replies, personal messages, online chat and ratings systems that grade you on your obsessive inclinations. How many posts you make and subsequently how superior you are to your contemporaries, how many threads you have started and what your avatar and signatures look like, as well as the various ways you have opened your life to others. No less, have you ever met or interacted with these mysterious people? Christ, you may as well list your name and phone number online, just to make it easier for us to contact one another. It comes out anyway, right?
So where from here? Well, the new forum junkie is now far more. They are a committed blogger, they frequent store sales, bars and clubs with their online-friends, they are a devoted group of people with an unswerving desire to be first. Their desire for knowledge, gossip and general nonsense says a lot about their belief-set and their principles.
Question is, what makes these darn forums so addictive? They cause grief in relationships and hog bandwidth, they could be considered an evil of modern society, a completely unbeneficial way of eroding the precious time we have anyway. Indeed, where our parents would have played hopscotch and read books, we are surfing incessantly, looking for valuable insights into the thoughts and opinions of people we’ve never met, people often on the other side of the globe. Are we that vain, that we seek endorsement from the nameless? Yes, for fucks sake! Got a problem?
RK
ps- please appreciate the irony of posting this in an Internet forum. Thank you.
From HERE
You know it's referring to you!!!!!! :D
