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It just makes me wonder what it is about each of us that we are able to see the attraction in this site but others find nothing interesting in it whatsoever. We're such a diverse group of people from all over the world but there must be something that links us with this "addiction".
it's probably my fault. The site looks too primitive. I have to introduce more polished interfaces and features....
by LCD on Mon Jan 03, 05 9:47am
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Good question. I've had the exact same experience!
Could it be that we are all intensely social people but NOT 'party animals'? That we prefer the virtual social interaction to the real one?
I think that is true in my case. I am a terribly self-conscious person in 'real life' but I feel free to express myself on this web site.
I also like the multi-national aspect of BestandWorst. Having grown up in two worlds, I get to communicate with both cultures that are familiar to me.
Great question!
by mojo on Mon Jan 03, 05 9:48am
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No it doesn't. The site looks great. It's just that there is something that is not "clicking" within these people. It's like that quote we discussed from Joe vs The Volcano....they're going through life asleep and there is this handful of us who are awake and in a state of total amazement... :)
The no it doesn't part was directed to LCD above. :)
Besides..how the site does or doesn't look didn't run our group off. Maybe what we need, mentally, is not available to us in our real time lives, for what ever reason, but we can find that mental satisfaction here on this site. ???
See..that's what I'm talking about. It's like they're missing something. They're creative challenged or something...no magic to them. And what surprised me is the people I did show the site to were the type of people I THOUGHT would really find it interesting. Odd....
Yeah, same here! Major disappointment! Are we Pod People or are they??
by mojo on Mon Jan 03, 05 10:49am
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Some people just care about some things more than others. I found this site one night when I was all alone at work with 12 hours to kill. That's probably the biggest reason people get addicted to the site; one night they had a lot of time to kill, and all it takes is an hour on the site before you're hooked.
O and most of the people that I've shown the site to are NOT big computer users. You know, people that check their email like once a month unlike us ... Once a day..
I first visisted this site in November but I didnt give it a second look at the time, I thought it was a bit bland and boring, how wrong I was, it was only on my third visit that I realised what I had overlooked the first two times. Ive only been using a pc for twelve months now and to the "non techies" like myself, the home page looks a bit daunting at first, but like others, I too have shown this site to many people who just look at me like ive grown two heads, I cant explain why. Perhaps we are all suffering from ADD and love the attention LMAO
what all of you said
I've tried to get people hooked to this site as well to no avail -- it must have to be something that they have to experience on their own.
I don't know; I studied survey techniques in college, but that wouldn't really explain the addictiveness of this site.
I HAVE gotten two people mildly addicted to this site (round of applause for mags). When I first found this site I had plenty of time to kill on the 'net. I never thought I'd become addicted, though! I am NOT a 'net person, I rarely check my e-mail and I barely visit any other sites. But I am constantly checking in on this one.
What it is that links us all? I think it's that we like to think. An amazingly LARGE amount of people do not like to think about stuff. I think what mojo said, too. It's fun without having to {{{shudder}}} leave the house! This site has it ALL. The serious ballots, joke ballots, and private section for getting to know other users better.
It could have something to do with interaction styles.
Well, it strips away the outside impressions that we tend to get when we see someone. Someone has long hair, is covered in tattoos and is smoking weed, you tend to make a nice little mental package and put them in it. On here, all you see is the inner person, the mind, and it's refreshing to not have all those preconditioned labels attached to us.
Hey has someone been sending you photos of me, Tads? :)
Just the nudies you sent me already... :)
LETS ALL JOIN HANDS AND SING!
We're probably closer genetically than two randomly selected people would be but that doesn't really explain much. I think a lot of us just like to argue.
I cant speak for anyone else, but I work for the CIA and I am looking for terrorists, I havnt found any yet, buy I will keep trying.
by ABC on Tue Jan 04, 05 4:06pm
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It's a state of mind. One perilously close to insanity, granted, but...
Im a psychological profiler myself, working for the NSA and looking for people who dont follow the USDA food pyramid guidlines.
The common denominator of all existents is existence itself. In fact, it occurs to me that God/Allah/Buddha/Whomever might be existence itself. From this eternal fabric of existence rise up the infinite forms that seem, for a moment, to have existence independent of this eternal existent.
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