SDMB To Me

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In some ways, I seem to use this place differently than most, so instead of repeating all of the above, which is true for me as well, how about some ways the SDMB matters to me that aren’t mentioned:

  1. I’m very public about all my interwebz identities, so my family, my ex-wife, my kid, the women I date, all of them know about this place and I send them links to stuff I write constantly. Hell, there’s this one thread which has me and the woman I was dating at the time flirting for a bit.

I even wrote a love letter disguised as a piece of fiction which was a book review about her favorite book, this story starring her as the central character, the entire review written in the narrative style of the book I was reviewing, and posted it here.

If that makes sense.

Anyway, I sent her the link and the relationship has gotten much closer since then. Given I wrote it for an audience of one, it seemed to have hit its mark.

  1. I link back here all the time on Twitter, FB, texts… but mostly the Twits. I’m the only doper (other than CodingHorror, who owns(?) Discourse) who has 300 outsiders click on my promoted SDMB links, and the only doper who has 1,000 outsiders click on one of my threads. I promote this place constantly, and I do get the occasional email/PM/whatever from someone who joined. At least the women I date probably join too, lol. Hi! :kissing_heart:

  2. This place has helped me become a better writer, now to the point where I’m doing so ‘professionally’ - ghostwriting for websites is my main source of $, not glamorous stuff but work is work and experience is experience. I also have my own Substack and am building a nice audience - my last piece earned 12 new subscriptions, including one I’m pretty sure is a verified account on Twitter. @Ion1 was the one who suggested I do this after reading my work here, and I’m always grateful for the suggestion.

(and, yes, I do social media and given I’m working to monetize it, probably take it more seriously than most here. But then, I consider the SDMB to be part of the social media continuum as well. And act as such.)