# Anybody else stressed out by message boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 17, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774 "2004-09-17T01:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/41 "2004-09-21T16:45:43Z")
Ah, **devilsknew** , Thank you for ‘tight-assed’ and ‘Overcompensation’. That decribes this board well. Yeah, take a break, **pizzabrat**. When you’ll come back you’ll find out nothing has changed. 😃 But like someone said: This board is not important. No earth-changing moves are being accomplished here. You’ll just get to read someone’s opinion and someone’s swear vocabulary. Can be amusing though. No more, no less. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/42 "2004-09-22T15:01:51Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > Anyone else get depressed after reading all the horrible things people feel comfortable saying only in complete anonymity- things they’d naturally never hear in real life? No. Zero. Not at all. Zilch. > [@blowero](#): > > I’m a little concerned that anyone would expect an internet message board to function as a social and/or support group. Maybe I’m projecting, but I always thought 99.9% of the people on a message board felt this way. I certainly do. I’m starting to realize, to my consternation, is that it seems like 99% feel the OPPOSITE. THIS is their life, not what goes on outside of this. I come in, shoot the the shit when I want and leave. The SDMB occupies ZERO of my brain when I’m not actually typing something to it or reading something off it. Sometimes, I play a word game, argue about movies, argue in the pit. But like someone said, it’s just a toy box. You open it up. Have a little fun. Shut it when you don’t want to see it anymore. How anyone lets it affect them negatively is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/43 "2004-09-22T15:28:24Z")
You’re right, **Trunk**. Ultimately, discussion rooms on the web are little more than Internet graffiti. Take it too seriously and invest emotionally in it, and it will disappoint you. Take it easy, and it can be great fun and a fillip during a tedious day. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/44 "2004-09-23T10:22:47Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > My advice to you is spend more time in MPSIMS and less in The Pit. See now _that_ would depress me. I worry me sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/45 "2005-02-14T18:14:33Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > Anyone else get depressed after reading all the horrible things people feel comfortable saying only in complete anonymity- things they’d naturally never hear in real life? [Such as](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5838703) … > [@](#): > > Dittoing Stonebow and DtC. I have no guilt about having an extremely low opinion of picky eaters, and an even lower one of people who make up outrageous rationalizations for their childish eating behavior and expect people to buy it. How ironic. You can dish it out, but you can’t take it, huh? Offenderati. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/46 "2005-02-14T18:28:50Z")
Hey, **elmwood** , where’d you learn voodoo? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774/47 "2005-02-14T19:14:03Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > How ironic. You can dish it out, but you can’t take it, huh? Offenderati. I think going back months to find a thread to comment on reveals more about you than it does about **pizzabrat**. He or she can find picky eaters incredibly annoying. If you’re offended by that, calling someone else “offenderati” is laughable. To the OP: Absolutely. There are days when this board is painful. Seeing a thread like this bumped because someone is throwing a fit is a good example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-stressed-out-by-message-boards/264774.md?page=2)