Reply #2: nice writing, Writer [View All]

[libodem]

DU has been my first experience with internet posting. I still don't have very good interpersonal skills for a message board. For instance, California Peggy, a dear sweet woman, started about the same time I did. She always answers each comment and treats us as equals. I comment and run, feeling each time I am going to kill the thread with my very presence, and I do not want to be condemned. I started here during the infamous days of "JimmyJazz", and damn i can't remember the other catchy name that started with the same consonant. Someone claimed to be Skinner's favorite. I believed it. They seemed to know everybody and chatted it up in a very friendly way. I'd pop in on a thread and promptly be ignored. I didn't know then that people developed relationships over time and 'knew' each other. I thought we were all the same. I learned not to feel left out after awhile, just because people were actual friends and looked forward to finding each other on the board.