Time Online

[Carruthers]

I probably do spend more time than I should online but, despite being further down life's road than I am comfortable with, I still have an inquiring mind and the web can usually help to solve a puzzle or two.

I don't subscribe to InstaTwitFace or similar and whilst I read a number of other forums I only subscribe to the Cellar.

I should add that I do read a handful of Twitter accounts that concern themselves with aviation, a long term interest of mine, and subscribers do seem to be a decent and helpful bunch, but more mainstream accounts are often a repository of bile and hatred and are well worth avoiding.

[Griff]

I'm watching a weak-ass mountain bike group I've been following on Facebook fall apart as time indoors drags on. It never became a community so now it's a shithouse.

[Squawk]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I once spent the best part of 3 years (4 altogether, but the last year of it a little less so) living primarily in a virtual world (Ultima Online). I would regularly spend 15 or 16 hours of a day either in the game, or writing guild fiction for the game, or plotting guild wars with other people in the game. My then partner also played and we primarily communicated through and about the game.

Wow. I'm glad you enjoyed those times. Not my bag personally, but obviously it worked for you. I haven't played computer games since the Nineties. I used to spend hours on them, and I remember during a Doom phase I once walked round to the local petrol station to get some munchies and caught myself looking around the corner to check for monsters. I even got hooked on Mine Sweeper. So in the end I gave them up, as I realised I wasn't in control of my habit.

Originally Posted by Carruthers

InstaTwitFace

Hehe that made me laugh.