What FFR did for me.

[JurseyRider734]

For a lot of us it's a personal matter. LD and I found out we have a lot in common.

[MonkeyFoo]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FFR

I find that, while I have gotten to know some general personality of a few of the people on FFR, I don't do nearly enough posting to really get in touch with people on any sort of deeper level. I also feel that, while I have perhaps slightly developed my ability to think before speaking (which I already had, it's just gotten better), these here forums hain't helped me with my one biggest social problem, which is taking too long to think of what to say. I tend to be fairly quiet, and occasionally interject with something witty, funny, or insightful. I postulate that my general ability to spout wit and humor derives from longtime involvement with a group, because when I say something funny, it is more reliably funny if it is an inside joke related to group experiences, these remarks bring me closer to the group by making them remember the times I was there. I feel, as a side note, that during the time I was on depressant medications for ADHD, I was not able to mentally respond quickly enough to anything to get in such a comment, so it was more difficult to get close to a group.

Now that I've gone over my socialization framework in a nutshell, I can explain that, strictly due to the nature of foum posting, it does not help my social life. That is, I have all the time I need to think of a response to a previous post, and then I can even go back and revise my words before I post. So, FFR has essentially reinforced my tendency to take a long time before I speak, thereby making it more difficult to socialize in my typical fashion.

In addition, because only maybe two people I know play FFR, and the rest think that it is frankly retarded, it stands very little chance of helping me by allowing me to associate more closely with anyone at my school, and in fact stands more of a chance of alienating them because I play FFR.

So now, you must wonder why I play FFR in the first place. For me, I was introduced to the game by some friends on the ultimate frisbee team at my school, which I used to play on. Then I found that it could help me to get my homework done in my favorite way, meaning I could do all my long-term projects in one night before they are due. I had been looking for some sort of online game that I didn't need to download and install, which would also be able to be played in short bursts instead of drawing me in for a half hour or more at once. FFR fit the bill perfectly, and at first I had wanted to get good to challenge some of the frisbee players. So, I worked on my FFR skill to get better while it kept me from falling asleep during the monotony of an all-nighter. It developed into making forum posts late at night as I found that bits of social thought with you fine people could keep me awake too. Once I had some skill and some sort of forum relationship with some of the FFR community, I didn't feel like stopping just because I had quit the ultimate frisbee team. That's why I'm still here today, posting away with too much detail.

So, in summary, what FFR has done for me is it has helped me to procrastinate. Aside from procrastination, it has essentially not affected me except in sucking up time I could use for other things, like homework.

And maybe I've gotten a little faster at typing :b

My Post, Part 2

Well muskrat, I'd say that the only way FFR has possibly saved lives is that when people post about how they feel like killing themselves, or they feel emotionally or socially lost, there are loads of people willing to reach out their hand. I have myself been one of these people on occasion, although I have also made at least one post about how suicidals are pansies and should kill themselves to get out of the gene pool. So in the suicidal-people-calming department at least, I think that FFR has gone some distance for some people to save their lives. But, I can't see how improving social ability, as Alain describes, can really go far enough to push life-or-death to the life side. If somebody is so depressed that they want to kill themselves, they aren't going to become undepressed because of the social skills that they learned after coming to FFR. But if you're thinking of social improvement as a sort of pre-emptive suicide prevention tool, and thereby a life-saving effect that FFR can have, I guess I can see where you're coming from muskrat. That is how I think FFR can save lives.

[plasmix]

RE: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FFR

I gained street smarts and a better sense of humor.



lol

[JurseyRider734]

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FFR

Well muskrat, I'd say that the only way FFR has possibly saved lives is that when people post about how they feel like killing themselves, or they feel emotionally or socially lost, there are loads of people willing to reach out their hand.

Wrong. Don't speak if you don't know this first hand.

[lightdarkness]

Out of sheer curiousity, how did FFR save people's lives? Looking for some inspiration, so let's hear it.

I was searching google for ways to kill myself, and I ended up on here.

I was so addicted to the game, I forgot about killing myself

No, in all seriousness, it was just that I was really bored with how my life was going. Not to EXTEREM'S, but I was just really looking for something to lift my spirits, and the FFR community did just that!

[-Fallen-]

FFR itself is fun. The forums have only proved my point about not being able to do anything or go anywhere without bumping into a complete moron around every other corner.

[Elire]

FFR hasn't done anything for me yet but I was already the things you described when I came. I learnt this from a family-oriented guild on WoW called One World Tribe. Everyone there is mature, and extremely intellectual..

[MalReynolds]

+ Encouraged me to write more.

- Was responsible for a nervous breakdown, once.

+The forums on here got me addicted to the internet, where fun can be had regularly.

- Internet addiction

+ A good group to relate to now that I'm away from my close friends.

- Some of the people on here are royal shits some of the time.

+Learned several new words.

- Not all new words were permissible in front of parents/administration

+ Gave me something to do during computer math

Mal