People who Post...
 

I have been on GC for more than a minute. I come. I go. I think mostly I get bored....conversations on here have not changed a whole lot. I am amazed how some folks have like 10,000 posts- 20,000 posts! WOW!!!!!

What are you implying? :p

If anything I'm amazed at how snippy some people can get on here.

Too much energy spent in the wrong places...

I'm not amazed.... I've encountered it in person, so when I came to GC I was not surprised.

As far as the 10,000 - 20,000 posts, I can understand if the person is a moderator. They are doing their job by addressing issues in their forum.

If it is just a regular member, then I'd be like 'get a life'. I love reading and posting on GC, but I do have other things to do like my job, spend time with my family, enjoy my friends and hobbies. You know, a life.

The people who amaze me are the ones who have at least 5,000 posts on GC and they are an active member of other message boards. That is when I really begin to wonder if they have a life.

LG :p,

I know some folks are just very opinionated. I know some folks are moderators. I know some folks just have a lot of time on their hands. I know the net is addictive. But I think there is something deeper happening here...beyond the surface.

I am curious to understand the psyche of those who stay and post 10,000 plus in a relatively short time frame...and I am not talking about the one liner conversations. I don't think its fair to just dismiss those posters as "just not having a life". Like I said in my original post, I come and go. I mostly go now because my Sorors who are on this list keep me posted of what is happening on GC anyway so I don't feel the "need" (everyone wants to have representation-even in cyberspace) to be here as much as I used to at one time (when GC was in its infancy)...and the conversations for the most part are just not terribly compelling to me.

This may not really be the right forum to get into such a study...but its something I think I plan to analyze more formally at a later date, because it is very interesting. Honest feedback would be nice. If I don't get it, no worries.

Nothing wrong with having too much time on your hands. I had that issue for a while, and now I long for those days again.

Anyway, what I'm curious about is not people with high post counts alone. I'm curious how people manage their time when they have a job, school, a girlfriend/boyfriend, membership in a GLO, watch a lot of tv, play a lot of videogames, AND have thousands of posts on GC. There's only 24 hours a day. :confused:

Yeah that was quite blatant. :eek:

But what if you've been laid off? Don't have a family or are not that close to your family? What if you're at a new school/town/job and have not made any friends yet? What if you live in a climate where there isn't much to do outside? Or in a city where there isn't much going on?

This can happen to normal people. It's not as simple as just "not having a life".

Isn't GC part of "life" just like anything else? If you spend X amount of time with your SO or family, would that not be like spending that same amount of time on GC and other MB?

Why is it that having a large number of posts on here or any other MB would equate to or give the impression that said person does not have a "life"?

And why is that low post number on GC or/and other MB's means that you have a "life"?

You bring up a very interesting point--- the idea of a message board being part of life...and what about the other side...those who don't post but lurk on boards for years and rarely post.

What about them? What I got from this thread is that those with large amount of posts don't have a life outside of GC or other MB's. My point is why does that have to be the case? Why can't it just be?

If you enjoy doing something (GC, Kazo, GP, Yahoo chat, blackplanet, reading, eating, talking about folks, going to school, breathing, bathing, and so on) and you do it all the time, is that not part of said person's LIFE? who are we (on a MB) to tell another perons (on a MB) to get a life outside?? That sounds convoluted to me.

You know that's the assumption (no life). When you look a little deeper,I don't think that's the case. At first I was just like...wow, is there that much to talk about? And then I thought about the possible content of those 10K to 20K posts and then I thought about the person behind the posts. And then I thought about the people who come and don't post at all. I think part of it may be about having a voice...somewhere...anywhere...and our need to be heard. I don't think that's a complete answer either. I think its worth studying. Cyber World- Cyber Family

I see. Then it's best to say that anything that people spend a great deal of time doing (or not doing), is worthy of studying.

There are people who study that too...but the internet, specifically is of interest to me considering it has not been around for public consumption for even 20 years. There is a whole new culture of communication that has been created and its one that does not rely body language, speech, or inflection. The end users are forced to make a lot of assumptions as they communicate. My background is communications...so I just find it fascinating.

I agree with you that this new way/form of communicating is interesting and can be fascinating, however, your first post and that of Sigmadiva (which is the reason behind this thread) gives the impression that those who rely on this form of communication (especially on MBs) more then others have no "real life", and that there is more to their actions (the high number of posts) that requires study, opposed to GC and other MB's being a part of their lives.