I also feel burnt out, not just on this place but on the internet in general. I often feel like i am wasting my time here, despite the unhealthy amount of time here, i have found what two people who can stand to talk to me, I thought it would be easier to deal with people online, but it isn't, and i have basically given up on meeting people elsewhere, I've spent the last two years sitting in my apartment. I have no friends "in real life." I wish there was some happy medium, this site either sucks me in or disgusts me and makes me want to leave. The idea of leaving seems threatening. What would i do? What do people do with the computer turned off? i have no idea.
I typed a bit about why you should stay, but erased it. I didn't think it was helpful. Most of the people I've met here have a sense of humour that is incompatable with mine, your's isn't. If you weren't here i would probably never laugh.
Bottom line it's your decision to make .While we can give you all of the obvious reasons to stay, the only reason that matters is the reason you want to stay. I must add that you contribute alot to this community, and are much loved by so many people that your absence would leave a void that could never be filled.
If that seems stupid to you fine, i will fuck off now
peace
i think we're pretty much a package deal. if one of us decides to go, the other does too. if you hadn't noticed, i'm terrible at making decisions, which may be why i'm still here. i really just don't want to lose touch with my friends. and i've come to spend so much time on this damned site that i feel like i need to sort of ween myself off it, not quit cold turkey. otherwise, what am i going to do when i get home? watch hans play video games?
you should give me a call one of these days. i think maybe i'm done being not in talkymood.
A while back ago, I think it was Tuffy or Donkey....or both....who said the only boards they even bother looking at anymore is the Site and the Hookup.
I thought "ha. I look at them all"
But then...yes. Everything said in the other ones has already been talked about. (for the most part) And it began to get repertative. Boring. Monotonous.
So....yeah. now 95+% of my time on SG is in those forums, SGLA or JOURNALS!
I ignored real life for a bit there. Had ease up on the posting and take care of stuff. But life gets boring too. And then you come back to the SG. That's at least how it worked for me.
I've met a lot of amazingly cool people on this site, you are most certainly one of them, and I think you have too. I think it's proven good at that. It's a nice way to vent when you need to as well.
And jesus christ, forget about the comment counts. Forget about posting a lot or a little. You're not here to post. That is not a purpose. You're here to enjoy yourself. And many times to achieve that, you post. It's fun. But sometimes to enjoy yourself, you want to back off and not be a part of the site. Well then, do that.
Am I rambling? I think I am. It's because your saying you're halfway out the door so I'm just maybe freaking.
Don't stay just because I or anybody else wants you too. In all honesty, I hope to see you in real life sometimes and everyone else can go fuck themselves.
Is part of the reason you're thinking about leaving because of the SGSeatown drama? Here in SGLA, we've had our fair share of that. For sure. My best advice is to ride it out. Everything seems worst right after it happened. I want to give that advice to everyone.
Most importantly, EricAlan and DigDug may have backed away from the site most of the time. But they still show up to plenty of events down here. Just remember, your account may lapse but your friendships won't. I love you. You're a rare one.
I hope you don't go. But if you do, don't forget to write.
Take care.
---------Maxx
PS wanna know what creeps me out? Your examples of burnouts are the 2 people who have acted as head of SGLA. Shit. I'm scared.
when i said 'we' are a package deal, i meant you and me! maybe rik and i are a package deal in most other ways, but as far as staying or going, it's you and me (and perhaps some others as well). point being i'm going to put off decision making, 'cause that's what i do. wait a minute, WAS that my point? did i have a point at all? shit, dude. i'm confusing myself.
what DID we do before sg? that's what i've been trying to remember...
i totally know what you mean, i think (it IS late, so i could be wrong). the whole hateful solidarity has brought a tear to my eye on several occasions today, and makes me realize there are some fucking awesome people here, some of whom care a lot about me, or at least kinda like having me around. and you know, if i left i'd SAY i was going to keep in touch with everyone, and i'm sure i'd keep in touch with the seattle kids at least, but... i don't know.
i have been neglecting real life as well. i haven't made my performance in school last quarter common knowledge. i think this site started meaning too much to me, and took up too much of my time, though you wouldn't know if from my post count. i think i spent way more time reading the boards and people's journals than actually commenting on them. but that's nothing new, i've always done more listening than speaking.
i sure have started rambling now. i think the point was that i have no point. undecided. something i DO know: randy kicks a great deal of ass.
because your profile made me smile this morning....
and THAT is a huge accomplishment!!
see..your making people's lives brighter and ya don't even know it..(well now you kind of do i guess)
I never really felt at home on the boards. Someone always posted what I wanted to say first, or sometimes I just didn't feel like voicing my opinion.
My friends list has grown...I post comments on others' journals. I know that the comments are appreciated, and I know where friends may be found. I trust in others' judgement in admitting people to the various groups, even though I at one point was prevented from joining. With that in mind, I also post in groups.
I like SG. I joined up at the very beginning with angst, that Fall that I worked in an art museum, and used to browse the boards when I should have been working. A long hiatus, and then, it's so huge. But people are more real than when the site started...you can meet them. You can drink with them. You can hug them. And you can share things with them.
An online community is just that...a community. You may have yourself a neighborhood community, a school community, a moved-away-friends community...or maybe an SG community. I choose to have all of them, even if sometimes it is just a small part in one.
I shouldn't have to tell you not to leave, however. I myself left for a long while. Choose your path, your friends will always love you.
Well, I'm not going to tell you why you should or shouldn't stay. I think you know why you'd stay if you decide to do so. Plus some other people who posted before me are much better at putting things into words than I am.
But I will say this -- I just met you, and only once. But I could tell that you're an awesome person, plus any friend of Eve's has to be awesome ... If you do decide that you have to leave for your own reasons, please keep in touch and still come and hang out, ok? Because at the parties and hanging out we're all more than SG-related people -- we're friends.
yeah, well, you have to stick around! I just met you goddammit! don't make me get my machinegun!
'sides...who else am I gonna reminisce with about the java jive? AND the B&I. I am soooo coming back to Seattle.
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... If you do decide that you have to leave for your own reasons, please keep in touch and still come and hang out, ok? Because at the parties and hanging out we're all more than SG-related people -- we're friends.
Because you don't have to post to enjoy the pictures.
Because you can watch as people fight over who has the most comments, and laugh in derision.