So while checking out the board this morning I came (no pun intended) across the MPSIMS thread entitled “masturbating at work” and had the following thought;
So do you guys think that some of the appeal of visting SDMB is similiar to the attraction to reality TV shows such as real world or survivor? Both have a certain voyueristic quality. I know more about some of you that people I know IRL! So does anyone feel this way?
I’d like to vote Cecil Adams off the message board. He hardly ever posts anyway and he’s never said “Boo” to me.
Seriously though, I don’t think the two are compatible. The best we can do is the fighting in the Pit. Beyond that all the juicy stuff that people do is limited to what they choose to tell us. How posters reveal themselves here is very limited.
True. I guess that I meant in the voyueristic sense that they are similiar. I usually enjoy reading MPSIMS and IMHO and almost seeing a bit of all your lives much like I like watching real world to watch their lives unfold. Not JUST the juicy stuff, even the mundane.
OK, I can get behind that. I do wonder how many people watch reality shows to see the more mundane aspects of people’s lives. Shamefully, I do not. But I don’t watch a lot of reality TV. Anyone else?
Hey, I just want to go on record that way back when tons of people on this board were bashing Survivor and other reality shows, I made the same analogy, namely that SDMB = reality show.
Nobody seemed to grasp the profundity of my statement at the time. [frowny here]