I think I've said this before, but I used to think the Internet was a lot different from real life, in terms of being social and meeting people. It is different, to a degree, but I've found that I get ignored, and occasionally attacked, just as much as I do in real life, if not more. I am able to talk a lot more freely on the Internet with far less anxiety, but my efforts are met with much the same reaction. People rarely, if ever, talk to me directly on the SG boards. I pretty much have to wait for someone to notice me and leave a comment in my journal for me to make friends here.
I tried posting in the 13 thread on the Silliness board. I made several posts, and almost all of them were completely ignored and not replied to. I have a lot of disdain for team/clique threads, anyway, so I'm not hugely bothered by that. But this weekend I started posting a lot all over the place on the SG boards, and had very little interaction with anyone at all. I even left comments on a couple of people's journals that I've never commented on before, and I did not get any responses.
I'm a "nobody" here. That's something I really dislike about SG; you either have to be an exceptionally rude, or exceptionally funny, or just plain exceptional person to get attention. Maybe the Internet is like that everywhere, and maybe that's always the case in real life, too. It seems to be pushed to the extreme here, though.
Well, I'm done with the SG boards, for now. If I get bored and lonely again, I might go back. When that happens, I should remind myself that I'm probably not going to make any friends that way.
Edit. Man, I'm depressed. I feel so alone. I feel pretty worthless for not having studied all weekend like I should have. I can't stand it.
Edit2. I think I can do OK on this exam tomorrow morning. I got a 46 out of 100 on the first one I took, but I think I understand what I did wrong (and if I hadn't completely bombed the second page, I would have gotten 70-something). I just have to be careful and think things through. It will cover finite automata, regular expressions, context-free languages, the pumping lemma, and I think that's it. I still need to study, though. I just don't want to do it.
I'm worried he'll give a finite automata problem on dividing binary numbers or something really hard. I can never figure out the method for binary division, or even regular decimal division. Multiplication isn't really any easier for me.
Man, I really really do not want to think about it. I hate exams.
I tried posting in the 13 thread on the Silliness board. I made several posts, and almost all of them were completely ignored and not replied to. I have a lot of disdain for team/clique threads, anyway, so I'm not hugely bothered by that. But this weekend I started posting a lot all over the place on the SG boards, and had very little interaction with anyone at all. I even left comments on a couple of people's journals that I've never commented on before, and I did not get any responses.
I'm a "nobody" here. That's something I really dislike about SG; you either have to be an exceptionally rude, or exceptionally funny, or just plain exceptional person to get attention. Maybe the Internet is like that everywhere, and maybe that's always the case in real life, too. It seems to be pushed to the extreme here, though.
Well, I'm done with the SG boards, for now. If I get bored and lonely again, I might go back. When that happens, I should remind myself that I'm probably not going to make any friends that way.
Edit. Man, I'm depressed. I feel so alone. I feel pretty worthless for not having studied all weekend like I should have. I can't stand it.
Edit2. I think I can do OK on this exam tomorrow morning. I got a 46 out of 100 on the first one I took, but I think I understand what I did wrong (and if I hadn't completely bombed the second page, I would have gotten 70-something). I just have to be careful and think things through. It will cover finite automata, regular expressions, context-free languages, the pumping lemma, and I think that's it. I still need to study, though. I just don't want to do it.
I'm worried he'll give a finite automata problem on dividing binary numbers or something really hard. I can never figure out the method for binary division, or even regular decimal division. Multiplication isn't really any easier for me.
Man, I really really do not want to think about it. I hate exams.
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I tend to stay away from the boards. They seem to be a pretty noisy place. Not sure I've ever had a comment replied to but then again, I rarely go back to find out. (Plus, it's always possible that you'll get a ton of replies in five years or somethin'.) Anyway, I've found that the groups are a much better place to meet people. That and trolling through the comments in my friends' journals.
Your mom's singing bear is cute! Although, I've now got that song permanently stuck in my head. But why you gotta' be dissin' the hip-hoppin' frog, yo?
Just kiddin'. That frog is totally lame.