Some insects see beyond color, just ask the UV Bees.

I also don't venture much in the cyberworld beyond HW, I briefly posted in another ezboard, but retired this being from there at the 50 post count (which allows me to calculate my total post count with the local and global TB as 2127 posts including this one!).

Speaking of other boards and contents... has anyone read that article about social software that Avocadro posted a link to?


I remember that topic Lurker... more than 13 months ago, when the Lounge didn't exist yet, when I had been a womber for only a few months (and not yet a Faith Healer). Actually pinot4me didn't say anything, just chose to disappear, by editing all her posts and unreplied topics to blanks and titling them "none"), but her husband had the kindness of explaining the situation and the reasons for her decision. This led to some interesting discussion and exchange of opinions about HW as a community. Your comment echoes some of mine at the time, you prompted me to search for that topic (it's on The Feast, and I have given enough information on what you may find in the topic list columns to identfy it;) if anyone is interested in revisiting it). In retrospect I think that topic helped to define HW as a community.
Interestingly some of the concerns voiced then (e.g. "we don't discuss The Church enough") reappear sometimes, which seems natural, when I chose to reply to that I usually summarize some points expressed first there. Another reason I remember it is that such discussion is one of the things that motivated me to try to reply always, with at the very least and acknowledgement of presence, to those new wombers that suddenly appear.


b you're not the only one for who posting here is more extraverted than usual. Within those hundreds of posts I've written I said many more thing things about myself than I ever thought I'd feel comfortable saying out loud (I've said things very revealing about my personality, beliefs and convictions, but I still refuse to reveal many personal information details in this forum open to whoever browses by, even if I have mentioned some of them to people in the ephemeral electronic medium that chatting in Antenna is, but only to those I've known for sometime)

Maybe it's the remoteness of the interlocutors being faceless and far.
Maybe it's the fact that we are writing, back in the analog ages before the Internet I did write letters to some friends and family, and the introspectiveness writing also led me to say some things that in retrospect I don't think I would have voiced in a conversation with those same friends. The most personal were those to my girlfriend, of course, how revealing you can be always depends on the person you're addressing.
Writing is like an internal thought, a monologue that we chose to share and make it part of a dialogue, or maybe in a medium like this it should be called a multilogue (if you get my meaning).
Sometimes participating in bulletin boards is like an act of introspection made public.