Question of the day (Tuesday)...........

After my previous posts about leaving but couldnt go through with it. My question of the day is:

WHAT MAKES US SO FASCINATED WITH PUBLIC FORUMS???

LIW, Myspace, friendster, facebook etc etc,

What attracts us to them? Why do we care what other people post and what they have to say? But we do care and cant stay away. Opinions......

Boredom. I work at night right now, so, I have nothing to do all day. By nothing, I mean cleaning, and things like that, which I craftily avoid.

we are all curious and nosiey no matter HOW MUCH YOU SAY YOU ARENT!


everyone loves to snoop around!

atleast i kno i do....

Boredom

I don't go on myspace or facebook that much. I can't get on at work anyway so if I'm bored at here, I just come to these boards.

Yea we all have a little bit of 'stalker' in us

Yeah but stalker is lurking without posting lol, ???? but we post, why do we have the tendancy to post??? Why do we twitch when we dont post

This is a GOOD one!!

I think the fascination is that by human nature, we are curious people and we want to know what other people are doing; in their life, for their wedding, etc. And, we crave acceptance. We want to be validated by our friends (myspace) the same goes for here. We share our thoughts and plans with each other because we like to be acknowledged. We like to know that someone else likes what you are doing. I'm not saying that what others think matters completely, but I think it weighs heavily on some people. The same for myspace. At one time or another, I'm sure we have all seen a 'friend' on another friends page and been like, 'hey, why didn't they request me?'

boredom
curiousity
asking for opinions

but i think it has alot to do with talking to others who have a common interest...in this case we're all getting married so we can talk about crazy ideas we have with others who will understand...Or we can talk about it as much as we want when we know in our lives it will drive someone crazy.

myspace-thats all about being nosey...seeing what the person you hate is up to, for some its seeing what the person they like is up to. Finding out gossip.

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Posted by yelley77

This is a GOOD one!!

I think the fascination is that by human nature, we are curious people and we want to know what other people are doing; in their life, for their wedding, etc. And, we crave acceptance. We want to be validated by our friends (myspace) the same goes for here. We share our thoughts and plans with each other because we like to be acknowledged. We like to know that someone else likes what you are doing. I'm not saying that what others think matters completely, but I think it weighs heavily on some people. The same for myspace. At one time or another, I'm sure we have all seen a 'friend' on another friends page and been like, 'hey, why didn't they request me?'

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Thats great

True for LIW bec of the weddings, but what if you didnt know about LIW??? About boredom I was bored before LIW and myspace didnt do much about it

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Posted by MPAS

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Posted by yelley77

This is a GOOD one!!

I think the fascination is that by human nature, we are curious people and we want to know what other people are doing; in their life, for their wedding, etc. And, we crave acceptance. We want to be validated by our friends (myspace) the same goes for here. We share our thoughts and plans with each other because we like to be acknowledged. We like to know that someone else likes what you are doing. I'm not saying that what others think matters completely, but I think it weighs heavily on some people. The same for myspace. At one time or another, I'm sure we have all seen a 'friend' on another friends page and been like, 'hey, why didn't they request me?'

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Thats great

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LOL, where is the bowing smiley?

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Posted by MPAS

After my previous posts about leaving but couldnt go through with it. My question of the day is:

WHAT MAKES US SO FASCINATED WITH PUBLIC FORUMS???

LIW, Myspace, friendster, facebook etc etc,

What attracts us to them? Why do we care what other people post and what they have to say? But we do care and cant stay away. Opinions......

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ive been postin on another site for almost 7 yrs lol im a moderator too
i get a lot of business from that site- also it keeps me occupied when im frustrated here in the office....
plus everyone ALWAYS likes to throw in their .02cents in yannno?!!

AS FAR AS LIW/NYW, EVERYONE ELSE IS SICK OF WEDDING TALK

MYSPACE I LIKE HOW U CAN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE AND NOT HAVE TO CALL LOL,

FACEBOOK- USED TO BE A COLLEGE WEBSITE AND I LIKE IT BUT NOW ITS STUPID JUST LIKE MYSPACE

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Posted by yelley77

This is a GOOD one!!

I think the fascination is that by human nature, we are curious people and we want to know what other people are doing; in their life, for their wedding, etc. And, we crave acceptance. We want to be validated by our friends (myspace) the same goes for here. We share our thoughts and plans with each other because we like to be acknowledged. We like to know that someone else likes what you are doing. I'm not saying that what others think matters completely, but I think it weighs heavily on some people. The same for myspace. At one time or another, I'm sure we have all seen a 'friend' on another friends page and been like, 'hey, why didn't they request me?'

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I agree. I think it's that we are all going through the same phase in our lives right now, and it doesn't matter what age we are, what religion....we are all similar right now, and are there to confirm that we are making the right choices. It's a sense of community and being accepted.
I think it gets worse though once we become parents....you think we're bad now....wait...it's be like a little cult....LOL...

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Posted by DNS91308

We are girls, we like to chat and gossip. Its in our nature.

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ditto!!!

and the fact that we LOVE talking about our weddings on LIW, stalking people on myspace and finding things out about other ppl's lives we havent seen in a million years on all the other forums lol

This is the only forum that I am on.....really lol
I like to get ideas, ask for suggestions, to see what other brides are doing. And I love to talk about weddings Especially mine lol