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ORIGINAL: PhilSlave

Life the usual..... You? Shit, 19834 in 5 years.... wtf?

Yeah, I go away, sometimes for a year at a time too....because I get busy with life, but occasionally I will post nonstop for about a week. I post very quickly too, because I write very fast.

I like to post in the religion and politics section. I can post hundreds of times in one day just in that forum alone! I was sick for almost two weeks, so now that I am better I will soon be going away again. I am moving in two weeks also, which will mean I will get out of the habit of posting so much

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ORIGINAL: VaguelyCurious

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Phil, I just did the maths. Your first recorded post was seventeen days ago. 242 posts in seventeen days gives you an average of 14.23 posts.

My first recorded post (which is in the intros section) was on Jan 3rd 2010. That means I've been here fifteen and a half months, with a post count of 4657. Let's simplify the maths to 4657/(15.5*30), which will slightly exaggerate my average daily post but hey, I'm lazy. That gives me a daily average of 10.01, and given that I'm really talkative in a serious discussion I'm pretty sure that my modal daily rate is gonna be way lower than that.

Honestly? I'm not a hella busy person. And if in my vast spare time I only pack in ten posts, and in your hella busy life you stuff in fourteen (and a quarter, heh), then...well. You must care a whole four posts more than I do.

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ORIGINAL: PhilSlave



Hmmmmm you are on a lot though. Or at least you seem to be.... I'm not on much and yet, you're on everytime I am. Coincidence?



But.... YOU have 9000 posts :)

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

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Hmmmmm you are on a lot though. Or at least you seem to be.... I'm not on much and yet, you're on everytime I am. Coincidence?



But.... YOU have 9000 posts :)

Obsess much? Some of us need to be online for that ugly 4 letter word work, and it's quite easy to have a window open and sometimes to risk a look, or like now while watching a movie. Can't you multitask?

Well spotted, so that makes less than 3 posts a day, if that is so time consuming for you, you must be a very slow typist or you have a slow internet connection...

Btw aren't you the bright bulb who thinks we all have mental issues? Are you here with the "gf" sitting next to you and watching again what you type? Maybe you only do that so you guys have something to talk about? Maybe if you're typing very slow you should dictate to her...

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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

I'm too busy to answer.

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I'm too busy to answer.

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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

I'm too busy to answer.

Heh.

Phil: no, you won't make 5000 posts

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ORIGINAL: PhilSlave

you say that like it's a bad thing? :)

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Or is BDSM purely something you do here posting very regularly? I wonder because I certainly would not have time to post as much as some- due to real life.

Thanks for a very interesting question! I feel like this question is rooted in an increasingly obsolete premise that it is impossible to have both a full online presence and an active "real" life. I was just having a conversation about this a few days ago with a coworker before a meeting while I was also checking my Twitter feed and sending some text messages. She and I are both 30somethings, and we were reminiscing about the days when there was a very clear, bright line demarcating "online" and "offline" lives as discrete entities. Back in the day, most of us were still on dial up or else we had high speed access that was tied to a clunky, immobile desktop. Signing online was a ritualized and clumsy process. Startup times for machines tended to be insane. Internet navigation was clumsy. Forums were few and far between and there was extreme hostility to "newbies" (hostility in which, to admit, I participated gleefully once I was established in a given online scene). In other words, both the technology and the social politics of maintaining an online presence were complex and cumbersome in the extreme. It was natural to draw the sharpest possible line between cyberspace and the meatworld.

These days, things have changed precipitously! There is still a distinction of course in the way I interact with people I've never met in the flesh and people online. But the line between online presence and the physical world has blurred into an increasingly seamless flux known simply as Life. Making a few posts on a forum or updating a given online profile is no longer an all night process. I write and think pretty quickly and spend most of my day when I'm not commuting, at the gym, or out with a lady friend within easy reach of either a notebook or a smartphone. I assume other people have similar lifestyles. So it's really not a big deal to drop in, say something, and then move on. I'm sure many or most of us have gone so far as to snap a picture of something with our phones and either text or email or upload it without really breaking stride or even pausing whatever real life conversation we're in the middle of. Modern life is magic!

Collarme is different from some other forums I frequent simply because I'm obviously never going to post here from a work connection. But even with CM, I often post from hotel suites between meetings or in coffee houses before a real life friend shows up (I'm often early!) or just wherever and whenever the fancy strikes me from my phone (trickier, this site and my phone don't get along too well). The social politics here are also much more progressive than they were back in the day on similar sites and BBS'es since everybody has been super-welcoming to this particular newbie, which I really appreciate! <3

So I just think it's interesting how, in some assumptions that some people make, some rather archaic notions about the distinction between cyberspace and "real life" linger languorously.

Thing is, I reckon that post took some thinking time in the real world...... ;)

Maybe 90 seconds, and I'm also on the phone ordering a little Thai food. :D

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Or is BDSM purely something you do here posting very regularly? I wonder because I certainly would not have time to post as much as some- due to real life.

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you say that like it's a bad thing? :)

I really, really don't.

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Or is BDSM purely something you do here posting very regularly? I wonder because I certainly would not have time to post as much as some- due to real life.

I am assuming you mean business, family, things like that as opposed to lifestyle stuff.
That being the assumption. I'd say it's about 3x as busy in real life.

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Can't beat Thai food. If you ever go to Bangkok, Phuket or Krabbi, I can suggest some great eateries. :)

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Can't beat Thai food. If you ever go to Bangkok, Phuket or Krabbi, I can suggest some great eateries. :)

You know what they say, One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster/The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free!

But I feel like I'm derailing this deeply engrossing and even handed discussion so I will bow out now. :)