wendy said on May 30, 2003 20:31:

Off-topic :)

Cuz all my friends are here,and here is the real FUN,roxette topic is a bit too serious for me :p

zeeshan said on May 30, 2003 20:43:

Just like Wen said, I LOVE MY FRIENDS HERE! Some of the FREAKS (santi and wendy probably know what I am talking about) did make their way here but I haven’t seen them around lately! We are cleaning this town ;)

OFF-TOPIC RULES!

Z

xuxa said on May 30, 2003 21:46:

I love off-topic!!
Here people are, not only fun, but FRIENDLY!!!! :DD

Stormkeeper said on May 30, 2003 22:19:

to be honest I spend more time here than on Roxette forum.

Storm

Anarem said on May 30, 2003 23:39:

I prefer off-topic, because despite what some people say, there is more to life than just Roxette :-) I wouldn’t say that people on Off-topic are friendlier, because most people go back and forth between the two. But man, sometimes in off-topic, people reveal waaaaaay too much about their personal lives...

Aschrum said on May 31, 2003 08:56:

“people reveal waaaaaay too much about their personal lives” that is good isnt it?! :)

on_a_mission said on May 31, 2003 13:02:

er well, the phrase ’too much information!!’ can often be applied to off-topic.

zeeshan said on May 31, 2003 23:28:

Anarem... I AGREE but we can always SKIP those topics. I never read those gay topics and all just because I don’t have anything remotely close to an interest in those topics.

Z

Majdy said on June 1, 2003 04:49:

I red THAT gay topics and sometimes I post in there too. I think that those people are VERY nice.

Anarem said on June 1, 2003 07:03:

@zeeshan:

Are you implying that straight people don’t j/o? :-)

I was only using the j/o topic as an example. What really irks me, though, is when I come to a topic thinking it’s going to be a light and fun read and then someone posts his/her life story and reveals way too much about themselves. I understand that some people need to connect with others, but sometimes a public forum isn’t the place to do it– there are always unscrupulous jerks out there who could be collecting information and perhaps use it to their advantage.

Twilight-Ghost said on June 1, 2003 13:21:

I agree with you Anarem. That is exactly what I think.

I try to be as mysterious on the net as I can. (That’s what “ghost” means in my nick). Ghosts are mysterious (get it?). Before, I wouldn’t even reveal my real name, gender or the country I come from. I use to think that some jerk out there might be collecting information about me and use it to their advantage (just like what you said), then I thought I could be just paranoid and I’m probably the only one who thinks like that. But I guess I was wrong, even you have thought of it.

I agree public forum is not a safe place to reveal a lot about yourself. If you want to do that there are other alternatives like weblogs / online diary.

This is the way I see it. You could either reveal your FirstName/gender/country/birthday, etc but not your personal life. Or you could reveal your personal life but not your FirstName/gender/country, etc.

I have a weblog myself somewhere on the web where I reveal personal things about me, but I never reveal who I am or what country I’m from, etc. Just to be safe.

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Getting on topic:

I prefer neither because I like both. But honestly, I’m mostly in the off-topic forum. When I visit TDR, I usually look at the “news”, then the “Roxette forum”, then “the off-topic forum” (and spend more time there).

T.G =)

harriej said on June 1, 2003 18:38:

Well, for the Roxette-news: The Roxette-forum.
But for the rest: Off-topic.
Usually I spend much more time in Off-topic than in the Roxette-forum.
It is good that both forums exist.