Re: Why do you post?

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

Children ask questions and when you answer thy say why? So you answer that why and they then say why?

Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why do people text while driving/when drunk/when high?

Looking forward to these answers.

@QumquatMay wrote:
I don't think this is a strange question at all. I've wondered the same thing myself. I do think sometimes people ask questions- that could be easily answered by googling- in order to spark conversation.

hckynut(john)

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

I have asked myself that question many times and still don't know the answer. I believe at first it was to get away from a BB I belonged to regarding RA, and realized that it was depressing to talk about our various symptoms and illnesses all the time. I, therefore, went on a quest to find another type of BB where interaction was more on a variety of topics. How I came across the Q BB, I really don't remember.

I was going through a lot of personal crises at the time and had no one to talk to, so I started writing about them here, only to learn a few years later that was the worst thing I could have done, as those personal posts were thrown up to me for many years afterwards.

I post now because I feel I know and have established some friends here who have not only been helpful to me, but vice versa, and also very caring which has helped me through a lot of angst in my life. And I am fond of them.

Now I feel more comfortable contributing than I do posting. I will post when I encounter what I feel would be an interesting topic, but I try my best to keep my personal life out of it. I don't always succeed, but I do try.

Mostly, I am lonely. I am old and disabled (see what I mean?) and this BB provides an activity for me. Sometimes I feel I have some wisdom just because of my age that I can impart, other times I am just expressing an opinion, or trying to empathize with and/or comfort another.

I've learned a lot here as well, both practical and as an insight into human nature or personalities that do not exist in my RL experience. Most of you are women, but from all areas of the country and that is fascinating.

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986

Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

I went to school with a girl who always asked why. We were in junior or senior year of high school and I would have thought she would have outgrown it. She asked me to come over one day. I asked my parents, they said no, I said no. She asked why? I said, parents said no. She asked why? I said because they can and because they said so. She asked why and I asked her if something was wrong with her.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

feline groovy · ‎07-29-2014

@SharkE wrote:
@IamMrsG wrote:
@Mominohio wrote:
@SharkE wrote:
The thing I wonder about is why the boards in the first place?
What's in it for them to maintain the boards must be a monetary gain.
You have to have people babysitting people who just want to stir the pot, take issue with others and fill their lonely time.

I like to talk about soap operas main reason I'm here.
In brick and mortar retail, the longer you keep a customer in the store, the more likely you are to make a sale. Same thing here. Bring people together on your web site, and many will spend money. Especially when the various forums deal with the products you offer, and even the forums that don't.

The home forum sells a lot of things for Q because people get on and review the product they just purchased, and others jump on the bandwagon. Peopel share an excitement over a particular line and the more they participate, the more likely they are to make a purchase.

I know that by coming here, I have been directed to items that I'd never seen or searched for, but loved and bought. So the forums, even though an expense and a pain to Q in some ways, are selling a lot of product.

It's always about the bottom line. QVC finds profit in sustaining the Forums, otherwise, they'd be long-gone.

That makes sense. I swear some of these folks must have blood clots and 'roids they're everywhere all day long. I knew a man who was an ham radio operator and he never got up off his buns and he developed blood clot and died.

There, but for the grace of God, go YOU - and every single one of us.

Especially when it comes to loneliness, and even isolation.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

What's kept me here for over 10 years has been some of the people I've 'met' here.

I know that some view chatting online as some kind of weird, unreal thing and the people on the other end aren't real, as that's been expressed here by some. I find that kind of sad as I treat people the same whether it's online or they are standing in front of me, in terms of how 'real' they are.

It's fun. I don't do a lot, outside my house, anymore and haven't been entertaining or doing lunches with friends and fun dinners and drinks for a few years now. This is fun for me.

I do sometimes wonder why somebody will come on here to start a thread asking a question (the type that will have a definitive answer, not an opinion-related thing) instead of taking two seconds to Google it. I guess, as somebody else mentioned, it fills some kind of need. I figure that if somebody is posting here they have the ability to search and research. But, hey, it doesn't hurt anybody I guess. If it makes them feel more of a connection, then more power to them.

Cranberries · ‎03-09-2010

It's fun mostly and reallllly comical at times too!

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

@chickenbutt wrote:
What's kept me here for over 10 years has been some of the people I've 'met' here.

I know that some view chatting online as some kind of weird, unreal thing and the people on the other end aren't real, as that's been expressed here by some. I find that kind of sad as I treat people the same whether it's online or they are standing in front of me, in terms of how 'real' they are.

It's fun. I don't do a lot, outside my house, anymore and haven't been entertaining or doing lunches with friends and fun dinners and drinks for a few years now. This is fun for me.

I do sometimes wonder why somebody will come on here to start a thread asking a question (the type that will have a definitive answer, not an opinion-related thing) instead of taking two seconds to Google it. I guess, as somebody else mentioned, it fills some kind of need. I figure that if somebody is posting here they have the ability to search and research. But, hey, it doesn't hurt anybody I guess. If it makes them feel more of a connection, then more power to them.

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Where else can I sit in my pjs and converse with people all across the US?

Nancy Drew · ‎03-11-2010

I used to post here everyday. It was fun. Now I find Facebook easier to use. Also at Facebook there is a group for every interest imaginable. Other there when you go on the political sites there is a more range of people. Here it almost all female in the same age range. There you can talk politics or religion. Here they basically want you to rave about the TSV. Here Sunshine 45 does wonderful job of trying to get a discussion of the housewife shows and get maybe 7 people to join in. Over there the housewife shows are on fire. Just my take on things.

Wrong is still wrong just because you benefited from it.

muttmom · ‎11-28-2012

@brii wrote:
I'm not going to lie - it's like an online soap opera here. LOL

Isn't that the truth? There are a few drama queens here that would give Susan Lucci's character a run for her money. Everything is about them all the time.