I miss the pre-social media Greek Chat

[33girl]

This isn't GC specific and has far less to do with "mean" posters than people would like to think. The other MB I was a regular contributor to and that was just as if not more active than GC is completely gone. Another that I just spottily contributed to is gone too. All anyone wants to do these days is post pictures. Conversation is dying online as fast as it's dying in real life.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by Pass the Pinot

I miss this site, too. But truly, the mean girls ran people off. I felt
terrible when the poor dad from Ole Miss got jumped on so badly earlier this season.

Originally Posted by stef831

Yes me too!! I felt great empathy for him!! For me I have and will continue to post very little because I just never know what I can say and what I shouldn't. I am so very happy and thrilled for all the young ladies who have gone thru recruitment so far- 2 of which are personal friends of mine now at FSU and Oklahoma State- one is a new theta and the other a gamma phi beta!! I mean the whole point of this is to provide help and support to our loved ones going thru the process, which can be so brutal. I just want to say this site has both helped me and hurt me. That being said, I still love to read the posts. I will be more of a reader than a poster in the future but I guess that's ok too.

IIRC the "poor dad from Ole Miss" got called out on his misinformation by me and a few other posters. And that thread went South (pun intended) when another GC poster went off the deep end. There was no meanness in that particular thread until she entered the scene.

I won't start a fight, but I won't back down from one; and I will never let misinformation go uncorrected. Like my Panhellenic sisters who've posted above in this thread (and +1 to your comments/observations), I am not blowing sunshine and rainbows; and trust me, you haven't seen me be mean. Blunt, yes. Mean? Hardly. You don't want to see me be mean. Take my word for it. I'm not putting on kid gloves for anyone when it comes to misinformation; most especially when it comes from non-NPC posters. But don't call it "mean" when one of us says something that you don't like. And, if you have a problem with me or anyone else, take it to the source directly. That's what adults do.

Too blunt for you? Probably. Mean? Hardly.

[Pass the Pinot]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

IIRC the "poor dad from Ole Miss" got called out on his misinformation by me and a few other posters. And that thread went South (pun intended) when another GC poster went off the deep end. There was no meanness in that particular thread until she entered the scene.

I won't start a fight, but I won't back down from one; and I will never let misinformation go uncorrected. Like my Panhellenic sisters who've posted above in this thread (and +1 to your comments/observations), I am not blowing sunshine and rainbows; and trust me, you haven't seen me be mean. Blunt, yes. Mean? Hardly. You don't want to see me be mean. Take my word for it. I'm not putting on kid gloves for anyone when it comes to misinformation; most especially when it comes from non-NPC posters. But don't call it "mean" when one of us says something that you don't like. And, if you have a problem with me or anyone else, take it to the source directly. That's what adults do.

Too blunt for you? Probably. Mean? Hardly.

Here's the original thread. See reply #1.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...highlight=miss

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by Pass the Pinot

Here's the original thread. See reply #1.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...highlight=miss

What's your point? Too blunt for you? FYI, I reviewed the entire thread before I commented here. And, you may wish to review the other replies in this thread to your comment about the "poor dad". You don't get to cherry-pick.

ETA: if this is how you take it to the source directly, and how you adult, I suggest you put me on ignore.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

What's your point? Too blunt for you? FYI, I reviewed the entire thread before I commented here. And, you may wish to review the other replies in this thread to your comment about the "poor dad". You don't get to cherry-pick.

ETA: if this is how you take it to the source directly, and how you adult, I suggest you put me on ignore.

I think you are doing more to demonstrate Pass the Pinot's point than to refute it.

Not that I want to see you mean -- since you warned about that earlier in the thread and it sounded really bad*ss and all -- but I don't think visitors will go to any trouble to ignore you.

They will just ignore this forum and find information elsewhere.

[honeychile]

I remember when I first found GreekChat - I was the Queen of the Lurkers. During the Recruitment Season, people would have HUGE signatures, such as

I'm So Happy I'm A
Kappa Kappa Kappa

or

Unabashed Plug for
Tri Sigma

It was very colorful, and somewhat intimidating, even for alumnae who had been to the rodeo!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by 33girl

This isn't GC specific and has far less to do with "mean" posters than people would like to think. The other MB I was a regular contributor to and that was just as if not more active than GC is completely gone. Another that I just spottily contributed to is gone too. All anyone wants to do these days is post pictures. Conversation is dying online as fast as it's dying in real life.

Maybe it's the topics. I'm reading (and occasionally posting to) wedding planning message boards, and the exact same stuff that transpired on GC in the pre-social media era is rampant. Catfishing, cliques, and flounces. I think there are even real-life meetups.