The Message Board Conundrum: Addiction and Personal Validation Amongst Peers
 

The downward spiral begins. Yearning for some response, seeking acknowledgement from our newly found companions just to re-assure ourselves that, "hey, they relate to me! I'm not insane and cool afterall!" New beginnings to recreate our personality in the timeless, limbo, of cyberspace.

10 posts, then 30, then 50, all those potential replies, must keep reading to guage our validity in a small virtual ecosphere. It's all washed up by then. ( )\x/n3d by gfy for eternity. :upsidedow

here's a little tip for you: it's just a message board, dont take it so seriously

Please love me.

Touch me. I'm innocent. :(

maybe you should get a dog.
or a hamster.
you seem like the type that would be into a hamster.
or is it the hamster in you?
I keep foregetting.

for many people this board is their whole life

For many board people this is their whole life.