While visiting the Internet, DIS or other sites, have you come across mean people?

[EROS]

Originally posted by JohnTBap


And everybody who is anybody knows that EROS is a one-legged Lithuanian cross-dresser posting from federal prison.

Close..................... but I'm NOT Lithuanian .....

 

[babar]

JohnTBap, I loved your post!! I feel like I just read about an upcoming movie. Talk about gettting the better part of my curiosity! I'm dying to know what you are talking about, but sadly, I'm not part of any "inner circle".



giggle giggle, you guys are funny.

 

[JohnTBap]

Sorry, Sweetie, I meant Peruvian.

KISSES!

 

[snoopy]

You may not believe it, but know that if you are not one of the "chosen ones" your threads will be unceremoniously bumped from page one due to a posting frenzy by the "inner circle" orchestrated via PM.

So how do you know that this is happening in the inner circle if it is done via PMs?

Just curious. I'm always reading about the "inner circle" but I'm never quite sure who that consists of. Don't sound like folks I want to hang out with, in any case.

 

[JohnTBap]

Originally posted by snoopy
So how do you know that this is happening in the inner circle if it is done via PMs?

Been there.

Done that.

NOT going back.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

Yikes.. this is news to me.. I was totally unaware of any inner circle on the CB that would post like crazy to move your post to the second page and all this is orchestrated by pm's... now that is out of control.... Yikes..

 

[snoopy]

Uhhh, o.k.

Sorry you've been hurt.

 

[Patrick IL.]

The inner circle??? Sounds a little like a spy novel

 

[babar]

I never realized that people use their pm's so often.

I have 44 messages total, since the beginning of private messaging here.

What the heck does everyone talk about? When I do it, it's in response to a certain post I would like to talk about, or someone asking about something they remember about me.

 

[snoopy]

I get lots of PMs every day, and they consist of exactly what you just mentioned, babar.

The more you post, and the more time you put into this place, the more PMs you will most likely get. That has been my experience, anyway. I take the time every day to read posts, really read them, and respond accordingly. Oftentimes I get PMs in regard to my questions asked in a post, or a questioned posed to me on something I have written in a post.

 

[babar]

Oh sure, I see. I'm not complaining either, I'm not on here enought to even answer ones that I do get. I DIS in spurts.

Today was a rather large spurt.


Is spurt a word?

 

[EROS]

Originally posted by babar


Is spurt a word?

My response would be censored by the moderators and unwelcomed by DAN MURPHY

 

[babar]

I thought the same thing!!!

...large spurt....hee hee hee



yes, I am 29 years old.

 

[EROS]

Babar, I think that JOHNTBAP was referring to some rather UNPLEASANT forces which exist on the DIS. You're fortunate in not having been exposed to them. Fortunately, they exist within a circumscribed group of people who have very limited influence .........

 

[TennVolTony]

I don't think I have met anyone I would consider "mean".....

I can usually read folks pretty well and just don't deal with 'em...

 

[Mackey Mouse]

Hmmmm.. this is getting interesting......c'mon Eros... tell us.. why get tongue tied now?? LOLOLOL

 

[EROS]

MACKEY, EROS never KISSES AND TELLS ........


Of course, I can't speak for JOHNTBAP; I hear that she was a rampant kisser/hugger at DISCON

 

[Buckalew]

Yes, I think there are mean and cruel and rude people on the net. Are they in RL? I try to think that they are people with a problem (whether mental or that they are hurting in some way) and that this is a safe place to get it out. It is hard to watch them be mean to a friend or to me. And, of course, I wouldn't trust them ever.

I believe that what is inside comes out...so what is in their hearts comes out through their mouths or the typed word. Sometimes it is love and sometimes hate.

There is a inner circle here that PMs and bumps posts to the 2nd page for fun? Somehow, I doubt that. Well, I could believe that it happens once in a while with a post but I have never experienced it (lots of times my PMs are turned off though). Of course, I rarely feel cliques here either. I try to be friendly with most everyone. And if I feel I can't be, I really try to follow Thumper's rule and keep my mouth shut (although sometimes I fail )

I have good friends here. I have friends who I can go to and get support from. I spoke with a bunch of DISers this past DISCON and it was great. There are people here I'd love to meet. There may even be one or 2 on my wish list that'd surprise all of us!!

I try to chose my Internet friends as I do my RL friends. It is hard but with enough typed words, I can usually figure out who I'd like to meet and who I'd rather stay away from.

 

[pokiemomo181]

You said that very well Buckalew.


Pokie

 

[Rajah]

I guess the reason I consider this "real" is perspective. I spent several years role-playing in games. *That* was not real. In there, any time we discussed "real life", it was anything, internet or not, that was not part of the game. Here, we're discussing people's real lives. People with real problems bring them here to gain support or solutions. You can get real support on the internet that is, at least for some, as good or sometimes *better* (depending on your situation and personality) than what you get on the other side of the screen. Just as you can be hurt just as badly through the internet (at least for some personalities, and I happen to be one of those personalities) as you can "in real life".

And if you think people only hide behind masks and facades in the internet, think again. There are a lot out there who are different as night and day in their public faces verses their private. Yes, it's *easier* to be a different person online than it is to be different face to face, but it happens face to face as well.

I guess because with me, what you see is what you get, online or otherwise, I consider this real. Just like I consider my grandparents real, but I only talk to them via phone most of the time and see them every couple of years. Or did my best friend suddenly become not real because she moved away so that my only contact with her in 3 years is via email? Or is the friend I've made *through* the internet and then met in person not real because we didn't meet face-to-face for a while? Or did that person not become real until we met face to face? To me, it was real all along.

I guess either I'm living in a fantasy world all around, or I just have a different opinion of something being "real".

I guess since so many consider this not "real", either I'm the figment of someone's imagination, or living in limbo somewhere between real and fantasy.