Speaking generically to avoid a spaz-out, I’ll stick with the gray area between both sides.
On one hand, it is good to bounce things off one another if for nothing more than moral support or to gather the experience of someone who has gone through the same thing. Even the comfort of knowing that someone else experienced and survived a problem you are having helps us to deal. Zette (the sweetheart) gave me a lot of information and support through e-mail during the stressful week waiting for the results of my son’s x-rays. Her experience made my head a little clearer and I am indebted to her.
However, I have to agree to an extent with Satan in that a message board is no replacement for professional help or personal contacts. (Shit Kel, forget the anal sex, let’s discuss guys who don’t like taste/smell of their girlfriend, should we?)
It’s one thing to ask for advice or experiences and yeah, friendships are made online, hell, I understand Jess’s need to post about her daughter, but don’t lose sight that this is a message board.
We can all :::: and :::hug::: and send faces, but the truth is, is that there are 2000+ members of this board and I can guaranty that although we can all sympathize with one another, offer support, even experience great friendships, 99% of these people (with the exception of friendships that have gone beyond posting to a board) don’t give a rats ass about the daily lives of others on a message board. With few exception, most of us wouldn’t know each other from Adam666 if we met on the street.
There comes a point in time (hell, even in REAL LIFE) that you cross that fine line between sympathy and just being pathetic. AGAIN - not pointing in anyone’s direction, less I get accused of being a big meanie (I consider myself a realist, not a meanie), but after the first 10 or 20 posts about how picked on you are, how rough your life is, how unfair the world has treated you, everything starts to sounds the same (poor, poor, pitiful me).
After a while it gets, even to those who care.
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