Help I’m addicted to the SDMD! I’ve never been into internet chat or message boards or anything like that. Well I’ve been poking around this board all day an just can’t seem to stay away. The problem is I have a paper to write so I have to be at the computer and the board is just a click away. I’ve noticed some folks have thousands of posts- how do you people get anything done? Can I ask the moderators to ban me for my own good? Perhaps someone should call my mom and tell her how much time I’ve been wasting so she cold yell at me. I guess the first step is admitting I have a problem. It would seem easy to just close Netscape and get to work, but I keep coming back for more. Any advice? Perhaps if everyone made fun of me for making such a weenie post, I would be shamed into leaving.
Simple - we don’t! Instead we hang around here and try to act clever so we feel important. Come along!!
Sleepyhead ~ I have been here for only a few days too. I seem to spend every waking hour either on this board or thinking about it. I think there should be a SDMB self-help group or something. My college work is suffering terribly. 
I am presently self employed with unlimited web access… I think I might move in here permenantly. (Deadlines? What deadlines?)
well, use it to your advantage-- surf, get smarter, be more proserpous. I can guarantee you that on these boards lurk the smartest humans imaginable. we’ve got History buffs, biology buffs, math buffs, military officials-- I mean comeon!
everyone here rolled up into one person (albeit scary) would be the perfect person–
I don’t know, Ad; while I agree they’d have an incredible knowledge base, that person would have an daunting assemblage of phobias, fetishes and arrests.
I don’t even want to think about meeting this particular person. :eek:
Well, they would be IMMENSE fat... ::D&R::My social life has improved since I’ve had an outlet here to express my odd ideas and iterests - ranging from counting on my fingers in the binary system to penguins and polar bears.
sleepyhead I know the feeling - it’s scary isn’t it. I’m still very new, and never thought I would want to do cyber chat with a lot of strangers. But the people you meet here are special, and the boards have become a way of life.
What is interesting is that I think that as a result of reading and writing in here, I express myself a little more boldly, and with more wit, in my work life and with friends.
But be assured, some of the thrill becomes manageable, and you learn to fit in your life around it all gradually.
Keep posting
[sub]and keep watching the skies![/sub]
Redboss
It only gets worse *sleepyhead. Soon you’ll start referrring to the board in real life: I just read something like that on The Board (watch out when the SDMB becomes The Board).
Then, to save yourself the rolled eyes, you’ll start calling it “a friend of mine” as in: A friend of mine explained how it really can be dangerous to heat your coffee in the microwave.
Give it a month or so and the first SDMB dream will come.
The uncontrollable urge to actually meet the people behind the userids. If you find yourself either travelling over 10 miles to make it to a Dopefest or actually hosting a Dopefest, then you are well and truely beyond any help.
The Board is your friend. Don’t be afraid of The Board. Resistance is futile.
And whatever you do, always remember to preview!
You think that’s bad? Try being addicted to the board and <WARNING: DO NOT CLICK!> Bejeweled </WARNING> at the same time. You’ll flunk out of college before the end of the semester, guaranteed.