22-04-2019, 12:43 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
Originally Posted by Floydy
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I do find that a bit weird. Why some people spend all day just posting things about "post a word which has the middle two letters "er"" and so on. How boring is that, and who is really that bothered? And they never go in any other threads with real conversation either.Each to...
22-04-2019, 04:00 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
I became a member of Friends Reunited in the days when it was a place for school friends to find each other. As a forum it wasn't bad apart from the appalling software that it ran but then it got taken over by a corporation with big ideas for world domination and challenging Facebook.This mob changed the whole style and feel of the site with out improving the software at all and membership just declined until it eventually folded.
During its decline I came across this site with its far superior software and have been here ever since.
I don't belong to any other forums though I have belonged to some specialist (Google) groups such as cycling and IT Training (I teach seniors how to use computers and phones) though these days I never use them and am quite happy to pop in here occasionally each day, it's quite fun.
FB (the group we must never mention) I do use occasionally
22-04-2019, 07:15 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
I was a member of the Saga forum and when that closed down I found this and another forum I pop in and out of. I just like to quickly scan the post titles and occasionally reply to something but I wouldn't say I was a fanatic, Sometimes I don't find any interesting subjects for days. Totally agree with Floydy about stuff like "what sort of animal would you be" or "add a letter to such-and-such".
22-04-2019, 08:53 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
I first joined backgammon sites one of which had an attached forum for chatting...when the site closed down I looked around for a new one....I tried chat sites but discovered they were mainly for people looking for more than chat....eventually after trying a few forums I ended up here.
22-04-2019, 09:07 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
I joined here because Azz, Meg and Mags came to my house, twisted my arm up my back. Frogmarched me to my iPad and demanded l join here. They were so persuasive, l did!Not really! My previous forum didn’t make many of us welcome any more. Twink suggested l joined here, even put a good word in for me!
We were made so welcome and the rest is history!
22-04-2019, 09:13 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
Me?To engage with folk, even if only in the cyber world, that I might or more likely would not otherwise meet.
Still a member of a couple of academic forums and trust me, the raw venom in academia beats anything that from time to time emerges here!
22-04-2019, 09:21 AM
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Re: Why did you join a forum?
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Me?To engage with folk, even if only in the cyber world, that I might or more likely would not otherwise meet.
Still a member of a couple of academic forums and trust me, the raw venom in academia beats anything that from time to time emerges here!
You should change your profile name to, Teflon Artful Todger!
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