Is it just me?

[Skibum]

This is terrible. I started coming to Literotica for the great stories, but now I find that I spend most of my internet time reading the board, and don't spend any reading the stories. Is this an addiction, an obsession, or just a different outlet for my voyeristic tendencies? Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Melody_lane]

*timidly raises her hand*

It has recently become a preoccupation of mine,as well, I'm afraid. It seems as if I come online, check my email and then check these boards. Horribly addictive, but I think that this is an addiction that I can enjoy.

 

[Guest]

After consulting my doctor about this matter, he has agreed to prescribe a BB patch for me. He said quiting it cold turkey would be deadly. After maybe an hour's time I start going through withdraws and i find myself signing back on to see if there are any new witty replies from all you wonderful people!

P.S.
Gil, where the hell
did ya go hon???

[This message has been edited by Tiggs (edited 04-10-2000).]

 

[Renee]

My name is Renee and I am a BB Addict...

Shit! I just had to admit to this regarding the Sopranos too.. I must have a addictive personality... is that what they call it??

Who cares..

I'm lllllllooooovvvvvvving every minute of it

- Kramer, Seinfeld

 

[Nobody Special]

YEA I admit it I'm addicted to The BB also. To tell the trueth, I was reading and posting on the BB before I read my first story on this site. I realize taht I'm addicted and sometimes I need to get away from my comp. That is why I will be gone for days at a time, so that I can get other things that need to get done, done. YESS Renee that is why I've been gone from the auction for so long. But hey I have fun here, I refer Literotica to all of my freinds, all both of them.

E

 

[Whispersecret]

I'm addicted. I sometimes spend more time writing posts than I do writing my story. Tonight is a perfect example.

I used to come for the stories, but now I hardly ever take the time to actually click on the titles.

I don't want to hurt Laurel because it's not her fault, but are the stories getting boring or am I just getting numb? I'm really getting tired of the "My Story XXXVIII" routine. Most of the time the parts are so short it takes longer for it to load than it does to read it. I mention this because I think that's one of the reasons I spend so much time on the BB.



[This message has been edited by whispersecret (edited 04-10-2000).]

 

[Laurel]

<sigh> This is me, not going there, since I've already stated my opinion on that. Okay, I'll go there for a second (I have no willpower)... There are just as many good stories as there ever were. You're just letting the stuff you don't like (which has always been there) get to you. You don't like it, you don't have to read it! Real simple... Tonight's update is an example of that - a little something for everyone. Only a blind person couldn't find quality on our site. Okay, I said I wouldn't go there, so this is me shutting up on this topic, forever.

Anyhow, I think this thread, along with watching people on the BB for months, explains a few mysteries to me. When we first started, it seemed as though we had more people giving story feedback. As time went on, the General board and the other non-story-based areas became filled with active threads, while the Story Feedback section wilted. Are fewer people reading the stories? I asked myself. But they weren't... I could look at our stats and see that stories were being read by more people than ever...

Then why the lack of feedback on the BB? Because, as some of you have stated, you have a certain amount of time you spend online during the day. As the BB becomes more active and more interesting to you, you take more time going over the posts and less time reading the story section. There are many, many, many people out there who come to Literotica and don't even touch the BB or chat, and those are the people who spend the most time reading stories. Unfortunately, because they don't come to the BB, we are deprived of their feedback. But if they did come here, they'd read fewer stories. So what do ya do? It's all good to us - as long as you guys keep enjoying the site, we don't care where you spend your time...

 

[Cranberry_cola]

Hei, I too come often to the BB and check out on the postings. It's just that I don't post often myself (sometimes I find it hard to express myself by writing and afraid that i might write the wrong things, eventhough i don't mean it...sigh..see?). Honestly speaking, I truly enjoy coming here to share and exchange views with you people.
I am here every afternoon during my lunch break and if possible, every night. The time difference from here and the states is night and day. So, I always come back to check on the latest happenings.
Dear Laurel, keep up the good work.

 

[Eve_of_destruction]

Damn it, Laurel... You caught me, I'm guilty as hell, too! When I first discovered Literotica, I used to read 5 or 6 stories a night; now I'm lucky if I read 1 or 2 a week. But this Bulletin Board has just gotten so damn interesting, and I love everyone on here so much, so...

What's my punishment? Please... if my punishment's a spanking, will you make Hurley do it, PLEASE?

EOD, baby.

 

[Lajo]

Yes...I feel I too am becoming addictive. But it is not hard when there are some may wonderfully addictivie personalities, opinions, and ideas from everyone on the board.

Love y'all too!

 

[Xander]

What can I say, except that I too have the neddle, with BB euforia, deeply buried in my arm. But that is one addiction I'm gonna stick with

 

[Softly]

SkiBum, You bring back many memories to this
Vermonter, that spent a lot of time at Stowe.
I picture you, at a "Ski Dorm", in the corner with a blanket covering you and your Laptop. You are using an illegally made phone splice. If not for your addiction to
Literotica, you would have bedded yet another
Ski Bunny. But, no, you are drawn to the witty, intelligent, perceptive, perverts, that conjure up exciting lured conversations
that have you daydreaming all day. Oh, but to
experience the last frontier and be able to
bed these creatures; Laurel, Sammyjo, Endlessly, hullo_nurse, whispersecret, and Sexy little witch. There, but unreachable.
Well, you probably could get Endlessly to come to you!

[This message has been edited by Softly (edited 04-11-2000).]

 

[Golden]

and me, and me ....

 

[Gil]

Renee, Obsessive Compulsive is another lovely term being bantered about. The only cure of course, is to have a beer, then have a beer, then have another beer and then...

Whisper, I agree with you, there are some awfully short posts masquerading as stories. For example, I've decided to wait for 'The Necrophiles, Pt. XX', before tentatively going back to it.

It's a perfect example of a lovely story, that could have been done in two or three parts, being written in God knows how many paragraphical submissions. I think the author is having Laurel and the rest of us on, in order to 'stack' their 'writer's profile'.

NO wonder, it's taking so long to get a story listed here. Almost three weeks and counting, Laurel

.

Sorry, Laurel, really I think your and Manu's efforts on this site are superb! Most of the stories are of good content and quality. Uh oh, Laurel's eyes are starting to get that dangerous glint in them, again.

(Whimpers, and genuflects, while backing towards the door.)

 

[Skibum]

Softly, you make my life sound so interesting. Unfortunately it's much more mundane. However, i must admit that it beats working for a living.

I have to go now. it's snowing, so tomorrow is yet another powder day in the endless series of dull days on the hill.

 

[Renee]

<wiping off each key on my keyboard before and after I use it> Obsessive Compulsive huh? You think that is what I have? Oh dear, maybe I should do something about this. Do you think coming here all the time is a symptom? What are the symptoms? <wiping keys faster now, in order to get my message on board> I won't be able to sleep for days now until I know if I have OCD or not. What should I do?

Gil said to have one beer after another... okay here I go (ii)3 (ii)3 (ii)3 (excuse me, now I have to pee)

OH SHIT! I didn't have an even number of them.. OH GOD! Now what's going to happen.. let me try again.. (ii)3 (ii)3 (ii)3 (ii)3 (ii)3
(ii)3 - there I had six.

Gil does this cure me? Am I cured?

I still can't sleep.

Maybe I should stop typing on here, maybe I should start another thread totally about this OCD stuff... maybe I should . . . <reading my post before posting it for the 8th time.. oh dear I think I am obsessing>.. do you think anyone noticed Gil... Can you help me?

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[Renee]

One more thing.. sorry.

NS, I am glad to see you aren't locked in that darn cupboard again. But could you please give into your addiction long enough to help us catch up as to who is winning and by how much??? I think I'm ahead and ppl are trying to steal my prizes

Thanks ever so kindly Auctioneer Sir

 

[Nobody Special]

I'll try Renee, But It will be a couple more days, I'm to buisy to keep up with it at the moment. I know that now you do want it to end, now that Nicole is gone so that you can get all of the men for your self. And I know that EOD wants it to end, but only after she has the winning bid on Hurly. So check back on thursday night, I should have the new bids in by then, Sorry about the inconvenience, but it is all in fun. Isn't it???

E

 

[Whispersecret]

Oh, MY GOD! Kill the auction thread before it multiplies! It's even showing up in other threads. Heaven help us all.

 

[Gil]

Dearest Renee,

Please...please, be careful!

After all those beers, it dramatically increases the risk that you'll wind up in Golden's shower.

Oh dear, won't Nicole be pissed off...on?

 

[Gil]

P.S. (sort of) Renee,

I don't think I've ever seen a better description of OCD, than yours. LMAO!

Sleep tight (That WAS a lot of beer),
Don't let the bed bugs bite...
Bugs, OH MY GOD, what bugs...?

Gasp...ROTF

 

[StarryEyz]

These boards are addictive. I'm thinking of mainlining them so I can get my fix at work.

At the rate I'm going, I may lose virgin status in a month. Oh, god...Gil...is that good or bad? Should I slow down? I don't know if I can!?

I don't have any beer...I already checked.....

 

[Gil]

Starryeyz,

Just as you aspire to lose your virginity, so I aspire to be a Wit.

Don't worry darlin' we're both almost half way there.

 

[Laurel]

I don't want to hurt Laurel because it's not her fault, but are the stories getting boring
or am I just getting numb?

NO wonder, it's taking so long to get a story listed here. Almost three weeks and
counting, Laurel .

Tell you what, all - I'm taking a break from the boards. Bye now...

 

[Golden]

Gil wrote: "After all those beers, it dramatically increases the risk that you'll wind up in Golden's shower"
Er I think Gil if my physics is right ... if Renee does the drinking, it'll be her shower not mine!

But keep going ... you're well on the road to being a wit. It's the sure way to a girl's heart, but only if you're both owls - to wit, to woo ....

[This message has been edited by golden (edited 04-12-2000).]