Thats well and fine in my opinion. As for enough information, true, its hard to piece it all togehter!
I would like to point out to other views I keep seeing, its just a message board. Boy have we heard that one over and over. Get a life, yep! Etc, etc, etc.
Love or hate the real fact that people do bond with another, it happens. Some just click with others in sense of humor, politics, family, ideals, religion, favorite resort, restaraunts, the list can go on and on.
You can be FURIOUS with a poster one day and on another find you agree with a point they have made in another thread. Sorta sounds like getting to know a peer, new family member or friend to me.
Have friendships developed through this message board? Oh yes!
Are they real? Well I can only speak for myself. Am I a recluse that has no friends? No, I simply happened upon here planning a trip a few years ago, found the CB and some great people. Now please understand that I don't watch TV and have made the joke many times that this is my mindless entertainment.
Mindless? Could I have possibly been more wrong? Nope!
I have learned ACCEPTANCE here. I have been able to bring my DD to situations that would not have been afforded to her without this wonderful COMMUNITY. Not knowing if its ok with this poster I can tell you that we took a bus out to paint a homeless shelter in NYC. She still reflects on that day, and has a humble trait that this fostered!
I will never forget the time I found out horrible news about my SDD, and had to get in touch with DH to tell him. I sat crying, sick to my stomach and unable to reach him. It was a group from here that sat with me, on line, for hours to just keep talking, say anything, just don't leave me alone.
Most recently, I found out I have an anneurism in my brain. Wanna talk about having the carpet ripped out from under you!?
If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the kind people I met here, & forged a friendship with, I hate to think how alone I would have felt.
Yes I have my family and friends IRL, but you know what? When everyone around you is looking at you with sad worriesome looks, you tend to not want to vent to them.
Point is we will never all agree and thats fine with me! But can't we agree that these friendships are real?!
I know I have made real life friends here, that are now gone! No explanation, no reason, just gone! How is that to make any of us feel?!
Especially chocolate cake, but I'm not picky.
I had a rude awakening the other day when I opened a jar of tomato sauce I had stored in the fridge and there was MOLD on the lid! Ugh!
I am such a tease.
That's just wrong! 
I will be your friend L107ANGEL! Sign me up!
That was just WRONG.
