Your personal A2K experience. Tell us about it.

I wonder if it means something that I've been only here for marginally less then two years and I have only a mere 19 pages of topics created.
http://able2know.org/user/tsarstepan/topics/

Maybe I'm not trying hard enough.

Woger, you cagey wat, where did you find that?

That is incredible, tsar!
Surely an A2K record?

Roberta, everyone's start date is on the top right section (immediately right above the large version of the avatar) of their respective My Profile page.

tsar, Can't find it. I take Roger's word for it.

It says 11th November 2002 on my version of you.

Which is weird.

International Date Line?

mine 11/30/02 32,985 posts

Yes...but we're almost a day AHEAD.

But I don't know what A2k's default time is.

It's in tiny print at the top of your profile. Took me a while to find it too.

I'm October 12th 2002.

I see November 12th too! Very weird.

I'm October 16th (2002).

Engineer, very glad you found A2K.

... and, and?
Any thoughts you'd care to share about your personal A2K experience, dys?
No pressure, but I'd be very interested.

Nah, you're a part of the culture, long time running. Oops, I misinterpreted that, Mr. Prolific. All to the good.

But wait. I remember newbies being snapped up and part of the scene within days or even minutes. Calamity Jane being one, that was a good day or month when she joined.

It's all a weave..

Any thoughts from the rest of you lurkers, too?
Come on.
We'll be nice to you.
I promise!

I can't find it. What can I tell ya? Hopeless.

well msolga in the early years most of my a2k posting was of a more personal/experiences/stories but as a2k grew it became more and more difficult to maintain a membership of personal community but even so I've made some lifelong friendships here, perhaps few and far between but solid.

It certainly did grow, Bob!
I've made friends I really value here, too.
You can't talk to people for 9+ years (some considerably less than that) & not get to know them pretty well.
But, unlike you, I haven't met most of them. Only one actually.
The tyranny of distance & all that ....

I feel like I've said most of it before so I'm hesitant...

But I joined Abuzz when I was pregnant and still working, in CA, and then really jumped in after I moved (six months pregnant, a couple of thousand miles away where I knew nobody, not working outside the house, etc.) It was definitely a sanity saver in those early years when I was adjusting to being a mom. (Everyone here knows me as a mom but I was just not a particularly mommish person before I actually had a kid -- I was the go-getter, high-achieving, firebrand type. I remember a conversation at a party with an old friend when sozlet was about two and we were catching up, I was reciting a litany of mom things I was doing and he was cracking up, another person who didn't know me as well was looking back and forth between us saying "what's so funny??", and my old friend just shook his head and said -- "sorry.... if you know [sozobe] this is hilarious.")

Partly I just needed to be able to interact at an adult level (I've always enjoyed the debates, political or otherwise), partly I really benefited from asking for mothering advice here. Noddy was a huge contributor there. (I take "Hold your dominion" very much the same way as littlek, with an added implication of "you can't control everything so don't try, just hold on to what you have and stay strong.") She single-handedly brought my blood pressure down on several occasions.

Anyway, after that beginning, I got to know a lot of people I wanted to stay in touch with and kept coming back (Abuzz and then A2K, with a stay at Les Anarchistes Artistiques as well -- tsar, you're another one I'm glad is now at A2k).

Now the role is much less central, but still nice to have a bit of effortless communication now and then. Facebook has been an interesting addition, though I find that I get a little too A2k-y and have to edit. (What that means, mostly, is I respond to everyone I know based on what they post rather than how well I know them IRL -- that's sometimes a bit too chummy for FB culture, I think. Though I have become IRL friends with some people I only barely knew, that way.)

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