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Posters find a home within their home on Internet message boards
By: Erin Lesher
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Unlike the cold, quick, in-and-out world of chat rooms, message boards offer a community setting in a large and ever growing online world. Posters can jump from board to board until they find one that interests them. Like Star Trek? Guinea Pigs? Sav ed by the Bell? Survivor? Table tennis? Harry Potter? Whatever your interests you are sure to find someone who wants to talk to you about them on some message board somewhere.
Yes, someone out there truly is interested in carrying on a discussion with you about your collection of My Little Ponies and stuffed animals, believe it or not. You just have to know where to look.
Finding a message board community that suits your interests can be a godsend. When your real life friends and family heckle your interests in reality television and your affection for Brie cheese, you will have a place to turn. Imagine a community of people who will love to hear you go on and on about Colleen's infested legs and Brie's smooth creamy goodness smothered on sourdough baguettes. Does life get any better?
Not all of message board life is fine wine and cheese however. Tempers flair on occasion, and heated arguments erupt over matters of opinion, turning past friends into enemies and drawing lines in the dust of settling words. Unfortunately, unlike life in the real world, such squabbles can permanently tear apart friendships.
While message board communities may not be filled with beautiful tree-lined streets and perfect, uniform homes, it is a place where you can meet new people, share common interests, think new thoughts, and find others who like underwater basket weaving just as much as you do.
After all, sometimes doesn't everyone want to go to a place where they can see that everybody's troubles are all the same?
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