I’m a ho, dammit.
Yer pal,
Satan
Dem, as long as you’re cool when you’re away from the computer, you’re not a ho.
A couple years ago, I was completely addicted to the internet. It’s not really a happy memory. I missed work and classes because of the internet. (Only a couple times, this wasn’t a superbig deal.) I spent probably, oh, 40 hours a week online. God, that looks sick. But it’s true. Then I went to Israel, where I had only minimal web access…and I loved it. I was active in school events, I made great friends, I went out and had fun. I kept up with my email, but that was about it.
So I was kind of worried when I got my computer this year. So far, things have been going well. I can go a couple days without going online, and rarely spend more than a couple hours on at a time.
I don’t consider online friends to be any less real friends than IRL friends, BUT I think it’s healthy to go out and fun sometimes, something that’s pretty hard if all your friends live 2,000 miles away.
~Kyla
“Anger is what makes America great.”
I have no computer at work. I work at work. With people, all day. Well, all evening, mostly. I have no phone at work, either. (Well, there is one, but I never answer it, and if someone asks me to I tell them no, it’s not for me, anyway.) I come home to play on the computer. Since I don’t date, and anyway, who can get a date at midnight, anyway, I only really get out to see people once a week at best. I get up at the crack of noon, most days. Sometimes I sleep in, though. I cook, and once and a while, someone comes over, or I go over and they cook. Mostly I visit little kids. I like little kids.
My one real good call up and get a social engagement friend is sort of like me. She doesn’t have a computer, though. But, the time I thought I could get tickets to a seminar featuring Steven Hawking as a guest speaker for only 150 bucks a seat, she was the only person in the entire world I thought would want to go. (Yeah, Dutch treat seminars on cosmology and theology are not the big draw in the dating scene, go figure girls.) It was a bait and switch, though. Bummer deal. We went to see a movie, and had dinner. Hanging around with a gorgeous girl half my age, at her favorite dinner spot was cool, though. She didn’t even make me dance!
That was only a year ago, too. So, there, I have a social life. And I post on message boards. I think I am social, on message boards, but then, I always think the other posts come from real people, with real feelings, and real thoughts. So, it seems a lot like socializing, only I don’t even have to get dressed.
<P ALIGN=“CENTER”>Tris</P>
“The other night, I was laying in my bed, looking up at the stars, when I wondered… ‘Where the fuck is my roof?!’”
– ** Anonymous **
Veb, you wish! Don’t make me come over there!
Oh man Tris, I feel your pain! That would’ve been killer!
“It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
Demo said: “I just got a new roomate, so I think I’ll be a little more active in the evenings.”
Yeah, as if. Wait 'til I get a computer in my room next month. We won’t even realize we’re living in the same house. I sense some serious Acrophobia marathons in the future.
Oooh, I LOVE Acrophobia!
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
-Spanish Proverb
Well, Psy, if you really want to be interactive in Acrophobia, you’ll have to move in with Dirty Devil and I. And, lucky you, there’s even an extra room! 
“It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
Let me get this straight - Dem and Dirty Devil living together?
No good can come from this.
:: :packing bags::: Woohoo! Ca here I come!
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
-Spanish Proverb
LOL damn smilies packing even
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
-Spanish Proverb
Dem, you are no ho! Now that Satan OTOH… 
I think an individual situation makes the difference.
Me, for example…I used to be far more prolific than I am now…I posted from work, my computer at home was s…l…o…w…
Now I only read at work, and post from home.
My kids go to bed, and I am all alone. I cant afford a sitter to go out whoring every night (as bad as I would like to!) so what else is there?
Reading…done it. I have read and read and read. Its not a very social activity, and doesnt ease lonely-ness at all, its an escape. And when I am engrossed in a book, I dont sleep, i dont take proper care of me, the kids the house, I read till i cant see.
Cross Stitching…I prefer to do that when I am at a friends house, so we can sit and stitch and drink tea together.
Television…sure, find me something that is not a rerun, not stupid, etc.
Talk on the phone with friends…how is that different from chat?
I spend my online time either: here, yahoo games, acrophobia, or chat. Those are all social things to do, i am interacting with others.
Do I prefer the internet to the company of ‘real’ people, YES! sometimes I do! When “B” was around, I would often wait impatiently for him to leave so I could go online…but he was pretty dim in the conversation dept. I would try to talk to him about anything, and his reply was either : “I gotta do a brake job for buddy tomorrow” or " Yeah? Well I got somethin’ for ya."
Hardly the calibre of conversation I can find here.
as I explained it to Mom recently…: " after the kids are in bed, I feel trapped, I cant even go to the store, I am stuck there all alone, with nobody for company. UNTIL I go on the net, then I can talk to people anywhere, I am never at a loss for company, I feel free."
Now, if you spend all day surfing for really sick porn…get some help! :rolleyes:
My friends sometimes gibe me because I enjoy surfing the net and a game or two of Quake after work…and then they go home, get drunk and watch other people play sports on their TV’s.
Really. Bait and switch teaser from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, no less! Makes me almost feel justified for lying to them and telling them my friend was my Student to get the 80 dollar discount. (We didn’t end up paying, though.)
I am old enough to be her teacher, though. Probably more complimentary that what the people at the clubs thought about us.
<P ALIGN=“CENTER”>Tris</P>
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
Or quizzes upon world affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
with statisticians nor commit
A social science.
– **W H Auden **
Oh that’s no good. Someone will have to kill the spiders, one of you will have to overcome your fear.
(That’s a joke, btw, for the pun impaired.)
"Hi, I’m Troy McClure! You may remember me from such medical films as “Alice Doesn’t Live Anymore” and “Mommy, What’s Wrong with That Man’s Face?”
Vogue said: “Someone will have to kill the spiders, one of you will have to overcome your fear.”
Nah, the spiders only come after we’ve eaten those little bits of blotter paper. And by that time we’re too far gone to even think about killing them. Funny how they come in such marvelous colors and sizes, though.