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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:25 pm
by Revan
I've not been around much the last couple of days; and will be missing for a few more. This is due to lacking an Internet connection outside of college. I have recently moved into student halls and do not have an Internet connection. I seek to rectify this lack soon. Take care Watchers.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:03 pm
by A Gunslinger
hurry back Darthy!
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:20 pm
by dANdeLION
drew wrote:Boo Hoo
Okay, I admit I was making a joke; but it certainly wasn't a 'knock-knock' joke!
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:04 pm
by Metal-Demon
Loremaster wrote:Welcome back, Metal-Demon!
Thank-you, Loremaster ... sorry for the long (and unexplained) absence. I kinda missed this place.
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:44 pm
by Revan
Wireless does not seem to function too well in my part of the student house; so it seems I am stuck with the college computers for now. I'll still be around, just not on evening or weekends; until I can organize a stronger wireless internet connection.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:05 am
by memla
Where has that Landwaster gone?
He promised to call... then write... ahhh.
I just want to tell him to look out for Arthur. Pass the word, if you see him, please?
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:20 am
by Lord Mhoram
He usually leaves for most of the year and then comes back.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:23 am
by memla
Lord Mhoram wrote:He usually leaves for most of the year and then comes back.
Don't I know it...*SIGH*
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:06 am
by Seareach
What happened to Phantasm???
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:14 am
by Wyldewode
Yeah. . . I miss him.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:23 am
by Seareach
My computer is busted...so until I get it fixed I won't be around.
Seareach out.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:34 am
by Seareach
TA DA! I'm back! Managed to convince a friend of mine that she should really drive me into the next town so I could get my computer fixed NOW...and luckily she had nothing better to do than help me out! YAY! Did ya all miss me!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:30 am
by Avatar
Yeah, those were the longest 4 hours ever.
--A
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:11 am
by Marv
Where's Seareach? She's been gone for like...a matter of hours now. I'm worried!
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:07 pm
by Seareach
Oh shut up, both of you!!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:39 pm
by Baradakas
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:42 pm
by Waddley
Bah, I never check this thread like I should, so this is about a month too late. Anyway...
James wrote:I meet tons of people through the Internet. In fact, I will be staying in a large house for the best part of a week with 30 or so of them this summer.
I meet with a ton of people from the net, too. The people I karaoke and watch BSG on Fridays with are from the Somethingawful.com forums... there are probably about 30 of us together, anywhere between 10 and 20 showing up at any given meet, and to date I've dated... (and this is super sad, huh??) 5 people I met online. 2 from (hur!) video games, one from a dating site, and two from forums.
Anyway, there are freaks everywhere, online AND people you meet face to face... it just is what it is... that said:
Seareach wrote:Honestly, I think when SOS gets older and learns about the internet I think I'll always be cautious. I saw something on MySpace about some 40 year old dude preying on some 14 year old girls (did I see that on your page Wadders?).
If it was the one where the two women tricked the creep into thinking they were 14 year old girls, and sent them inappropriate videos of himself, yeah... that was on my site.
Obviously, there are creeps on the internet. I've been active online since I was about 11, and I've been propositioned multiple times... but on the other hand, and what I think doesn't get as much recognition, many children seek out this kind of attention. For one reason or another, many times they knowledgeably put themselves in these positions of... I don't want to say
harm per se, perhaps exposure.
I went to adult chat rooms. I told people I was young. I was curious about the kind of attention it got me... I never put myself in real harm, but I definitely saw/read things that my mom would have been livid over. I know that many many other young teens do the same. It's a tough situation, but as long as you teach your child that meeting a stranger online is about as smart as scratching your eye with the tip of a steak knife, they'll be fine.
This is what's scary to me: Kids are smart. Kids are curious. Kids like the forbidden... they're going to get into it if they really want to.
**sigh** Remind me not to reproduce. I don't want any kid seeing what I have, at the age I did.
Sorry, didn't mean to go all tangenty on y'all. And sorry for the complete thread hijack.
Back to mourning missing watchers....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:16 pm
by Marv
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:28 pm
by dANdeLION
Marvin wrote:Pfft. Who are you to tell me to shut up with your measly 50 odd posts. You're practically a Noob!!
They're not all odd!
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:33 pm
by danlo
Where's Lore? Did his "God" eat him?
I hope he's OK...maybe just busy--I need him to jump over me in post count--yes I'm mashocistic that way...
