Fourm Whore

I have this habit. Its like casual drug use, I indulge occasionally and sometimes it goes a bit too far. My wife calls it forum whoring, a less than flattering term, but I guess its mostly accurate.

Every once in a great while I find a place where i like to just hang out virtually, I love film, and I love writing so more often than not the places I visit tend to reflect my interest in both these subjects.


Actually it started with the old site politics.com which sadly has gone the way of the dodo, but that was my gateway drug. Actually further back then that I got into posting on message boards when my wife and I were playing MMOs (Massively Mutual Ownership of your life) to shorten a long and really stupid story, we were part of a Group of players who grouped together and "quested" yeah sure sounds geeky. Anyhoo, we used forums to communicate, plan online activities and just simply bullshit, well the simply bullshit part was the pastime I chose to pursue.

I got into political argument after political argument, got criticized for not only my POV but also my personal life, well, that was the end of that...

So a few years go by, I'm living in Florida and bored out of my skull, so I start posting at the movie forums, politics.com and a few writing sites and things snowball from there.

Now I love a good argument, love being challenged, but when it gets personal I tend to back off, shell up and go away. On the one hand I do understand why people do it, they get frustrated when the argument becomes un-winnable, they run out of impertinent things to say and they resort to the equivalent of "yo-momma" jokes. But I can't understand why people can't just accept the fact they there is often a great gulf between opinion and fact.

Where was this going...I really don't know....