Thoughts on why this board has been so quiet lately? Boardies just busy? Personal conversations taken off-board? People back on the bump? A new board was secretly created and I'm the only one who didn't get invited? (That one is a joke, I hope!)
Post by tattooedmeegs on Apr 3, 2013 12:31:34 GMT -5
I can't answer for everyone else, but I've been lurking a lot because of no time to post. Work has been busy and life has been busy, so I pop in, read, then run.
Post by seattlekari on Apr 3, 2013 12:59:28 GMT -5
Well if it's the latter, I'm out of the loop too.
I don't tend to start posts here since I often pop in later due to the time difference and just respond to what's been posted already. Perhaps I should be more ambitious and start something but I need to think of something to write about!
I try to start threads every now and then but get busy with life and don't always reply. I've also been trying to keep my web time in check to focus more on real life.
perhaps it is spring fever...another message board that I've been on forever (since my wedding in 2003!) is also super slow with very few posts these days.
Post by bluedaisyus on Apr 3, 2013 13:21:33 GMT -5
I don't know. For myself I've been super busy at work, plus the holiday which always makes things slower on message boards, plus I'm trying to focus on my family when I'm at home so I've been generally avoiding my phone and the interwebs in the evenings, plus the weather is getting nicer and it seems like this time of year people are usually more active outside and not as much online. The other board I'm on has also been really slow.
Hm, interesting that other boards have been slow too. I haven't noticed a huge drop in volume anywhere else I read (other than normal fluctuations), but I do more reading elsewhere and less posting. I understand trying to get more work done, but it seems like I always end up back on the internet looking for distraction at some point...
March/April is always a slow posting time for me as I'm gearing up for my big event. I'm checking in and read the posts, but sometimes it isn't until the end of the day, when I'm on my phone and looking for a few moments of quiet.
Just busy here. I have been teaching a kind of teacher centered unit with lots of prep so I have no time at school to do more than read. Home I try to be off the computer while e is up and then trying to catch up with s about the new job.
Post by twomoms2twins on Apr 3, 2013 18:26:56 GMT -5
busy but also annoyed that people bring and take posts and that there has been a bit of judgement and cattiness perhaps? I dunno for me its just not the comfortable loving place that I felt it was before.
busy but also annoyed that people bring and take posts and that there has been a bit of judgement and cattiness perhaps? I dunno for me its just not the comfortable loving place that I felt it was before.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I do hope that it was an isolated incident and that we can still be a generally safe community.
I started working a month ago. Just a small (read:10 hours a week) job but its surprisingly hard to manage the house and child care and life even though its such a short amount of time! I love my job and its given me a whole new appreciation for being a SAHM so it's worth it, but leaves me little time online. I find myself cherishing my time with N and K more. Silly since its such a teeny part of the week.
I've also gotten, knock on wood, my second tri energy. Or maybe it's just that N is sleeping better.. So all my extra time is usually spent renovating something in my house I'm in the midst of a big laundry room transformation. Hopefully it'll be finished tomorrow so I can AW it!
Post by rikkiandjulie on Apr 3, 2013 23:26:59 GMT -5
I've just been busy. The CEO is coming to my work so lots has been happening there and i haven't had much to talk about. I'm also not throwing so much out on this board bc the new foot traffic makes me nervous, especially when I see names I don't know. And after other events. Mostly though Just busy, all good things.
For me it's been busy-ness. My big training event for my project was Monday and my MIL and her sisters left yesterday. I have one more big deadline next Wednesday and then a conference through the following Saturday. I hope to have more time to read and post, and I hope we have more liveliness on the board.
I know I am new to posting on this board but for me (with any board I participate in) it's due to the new LOs. I felt guilty being on the computer during the day when I was home with them. Now that I am back to work, I don't feel as bad as long as I am posting during the work day and not while they are home.
Plus M and I instituted a new rule that our phones/computers go away once we get home together until we head for bed. We know there will be exceptions such as phone calls we need to take etc but we are treating this as our time. For me that means no bumping, forums etc and for M no e-books or facebook.
You're only MM poor, not real poor. Totally different ball game.
MM makes me feel BROKE. And we're not. We're just middle class with two kids in daycare
Yep. And people who live in a stupidly expensive area of the country without being accountants or lawyers (I guess I don't actually know what your wife does, so I guess I'm assuming there.) I feel poor on MM too, and we're DINKs, and by objective standards make a respectable living.
Yep. And people who live in a stupidly expensive area of the country without being accountants or lawyers (I guess I don't actually know what your wife does, so I guess I'm assuming there.) I feel poor on MM too, and we're DINKs, and by objective standards make a respectable living.
She's an engineer. Makes about 15% more than me with bonus, so respectable, but nothing to stop the presses for. We're pretty firmly middle-middle class, and barring a bizarre windfall, will stay there.
My DW works in what I assume is the same field as you do and makes more than I do in social work, so we will likely also remain solidly middle class.
busy but also annoyed that people bring and take posts and that there has been a bit of judgement and cattiness perhaps? I dunno for me its just not the comfortable loving place that I felt it was before.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I do hope that it was an isolated incident and that we can still be a generally safe community.
Thank you, I am just being overly cautions i guess.. and it was an isolated incident on this board but i had issues with this person before. A few other have reached out to me and also said they had the same experience and Ironically with the same person.
The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but notice that no one has actually denied the existence of a new board.
The rest of me just chalks it up to a regular lull. New jobs,placements,deep issues that might not be safe to discuss here given the privacy breech. The latter being true for me.
I still check in all the time and hope we will pick back up again soon.
I still check in all the time and hope we will pick back up again soon.
I think this is the issue for a lot of people - they check in and hope it will pick back up soon. But the only way it picks up, is if someone starts a thread.
Post by rikkiandjulie on Apr 9, 2013 12:58:46 GMT -5
Ill be disappointed if a new board was created and I was invited. Just being honest, but I've felt like the misfit for a while now, but I'm with Duchess and was thinking it before she said it, no one denied a new ultra private board. I'm also just insecure and feel like you are all more my friends than I am yours at times. Oh well.
MMs certainly makes us poor too. 30% of your check in savings/retirement? Um yea... I'd be in a cardboard box. DW and I when combined are strictly middle class, her education and field have the opportunity to take us out if that, but it will be a long term pay off.