Hi everyone,
I’d like to ask long you typically spend each day/week reading and posting on this message board. I’m curious to know if message boarding can be as addictive as online games.
Thanks
Yes. But I don’t time myself. It’s more a matter of checking in to break the tedium of whatever else I’m doing, much of which is often computer-based.
pop in about 5 mins every few hours if i am in the house
I check in often but for just a minute or so to break up the day. If there’s a long thread I’m interested in I try to save it for evening.
I’m not here now! 
Same as.
Ditto. 
I’ll flip over and check several times a day, but unless something catches my eye, I’m here less than a minute…it doesn’t take long to flip through the whistle, flute, IrTrad, Pub, and Rubber Room boards.
Provides a nice (in)sanity break through the day.
–James
me three or four or whatever…
my work involves being on the computer a lot. So while things are loading, to break up the time, etc., I’ll pop in and see what’s going on.
I don’t know if I could actually quantitate the amount of time I’m on here, however.
Forgive me for asking … But why do you, as someone who has spent exactly one post’s worth of time on this board, want to know?
Maybe it’s a psychology term paper or a science fair project.
I’ve spent more time than that reading posts and smart remarks, too. Yes, Emmline, I’m involved in a research project that relates to how people use Web 2 technologies.
For me the time spent here varies. I pop on occasionally to see what’s going on, but I may go for days where I don’t even check in at all. Today, I think I’ve been here twice, and the first time was only for about 5 minutes or so. This time will be more because I actually logged in and am replying to your thread. If I happen to have a bit of time, I check in, but since time is always an issue for me, I don’t seem to do it all that often as of late.
More than I should when I have other things to do.
I check in here most every day. I might spend 15 or 20 minutes, I might spend an hour or more, depending on what’s up for reading/discussion and how late it is. This is my unwind time in the evening.
One thing you should know- I call this board “the fount of all wisdom” for a reason. Anything that you want to know can be found here because someone is an expert or you can be pointed in the direction that will provide answers. This is as diverse, intelligent, witty and interesting group of folks asyou will ever find.
OK, the intent seems to be non-commercial. Carry on …
This site isn’t a web 2.0 technology.
Or more accurately it shows how much absolute tosh the term web 2.0 really is. Forums/message boards have been around since BEFORE the web (anyone use local bulletin board systems in the pre WWW days?) so to now include them in this web 2 nonsense is just ridiculous.
Web 2.0 is just another meaningless buzzword that will soon disappear forever. Much like the sites it encompasses, social networking while fun for the end user has no business model and, like the other big web bubble 9 years ago, will soon burst as the investors slowly realise there’s no return to be made on the vast sums they’ve plowed into these sites.
Wait just a minute. I’m very close to launching Web 3.0: The Reckoning. If you take away the Web 2.0, that title will be meaningless, as will my next project Web 6.66: The e-Mark of the Cyberbeast.
If I want to access the Web 2.0, do I need to buy a second computer?
No, but you need to have eight working legs.
No. Just hook more tubes up to the one you already have.