Chit-Chat: On Tuesdays Oryx and Triforce think it's Wednesday

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Umbreon said:
Okay. This is good news.



Too close in my opinion. Also, I doubt I'll be going unless someone could help me get a job or if I get one by then. xD
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Uh. I guess I'll move then? You're being kind of rude. :/
 
Oryx is the WORST at meeting up with trust me I know from experience!!!!!!!!
 
Crazy that two PC members might live near each other. Insane, even. One of you must move immediately.
 
Sometimes PC confuses me. On another forum I visit as soon as someone moves near another person the first thing anyone does is set up a meetup to get them used to the area. I know if I post on there "I want to meet some people in this forum from Chicago!" I'd have a dozen responses. Here it's like everyone hides their identity so closely that I didn't even know if anyone lived in this area until now, and even then those people wouldn't want to meet up. I guess part of it is an age group (the other forum is mostly late 20s-mid 30s) and part of it is just culture.
 
PC culture prohibits two things: change and the exhibition of anything outside of the computer screen. :D
 
Umbreon said:
Or maybe the people in your area are socially awkward. xD (That'd be me)
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That's actually what I meant by culture - that forum isn't based around something like Pokemon or other such nerdy things, and those nerdy things tend to attract socially awkward people, which means that the culture of the forum here is socially awkward while it's not there.
 
Dipu and Nick can join the "Touj never met up with me when she lived on the East Coast" hate club. :(
 
Oryx said:
Sometimes PC confuses me. On another forum I visit as soon as someone moves near another person the first thing anyone does is set up a meetup to get them used to the area. I know if I post on there "I want to meet some people in this forum from Chicago!" I'd have a dozen responses. Here it's like everyone hides their identity so closely that I didn't even know if anyone lived in this area until now, and even then those people wouldn't want to meet up. I guess part of it is an age group (the other forum is mostly late 20s-mid 30s) and part of it is just culture.
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PC is meant to cater to a younger audience foremost; it's based on a series of games and cartoons that are mostly aimed at a young audience. You also have a lot of warnings against posting personal or revealing information about yourself on the Internet at large (and I think on here too) and this is something Steve and the staff have to be especially aware of on the forums, I think. The young audience lends itself to more privacy with members and their personal information and it sort of spreads to everyone else, regardless of age.

Beyond that, some people have a facade/image they present of themselves on the forums and meetups/Facebook/personal info could change how they are perceived by people, so some people like the privacy/anonymity of a forum to present themselves as they want to be seen. :P
 
Klippy said:
PC is meant to cater to a younger audience foremost; it's based on a series of games and cartoons that are mostly aimed at a young audience. You also have a lot of warnings against posting personal or revealing information about yourself on the Internet at large (and I think on here too) and this is something Steve and the staff have to be especially aware of on the forums, I think. The young audience lends itself to more privacy with members and their personal information and it sort of spreads to everyone else, regardless of age.

Beyond that, some people have a facade/image they present of themselves on the forums and meetups/Facebook/personal info could change how they are perceived by people, so some people like the privacy/anonymity of a forum to present themselves as they want to be seen. :P
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Yeah, that's basically what I said. Part of it is younger userbases that haven't figured out yet how to navigate the personal/public divide of forumspace, or have more to fear from it, and the other part is the culture of PC; the other forum is very open about who people are and much less posture-y so meeting with a person in real life is almost identical to meeting with a person online.

Although the "young audience" of Pokemon doesn't really map to the userbase of PC because the target age group of Pokemon is ~10 and you can't even join PC at that point, haha.
 
Oryx said:
Yeah, that's basically what I said. Part of it is younger userbases that haven't figured out yet how to navigate the personal/public divide of forumspace, or have more to fear from it, and the other part is the culture of PC; the other forum is very open about who people are and much less posture-y so meeting with a person in real life is almost identical to meeting with a person online.

Although the "young audience" of Pokemon doesn't really map to the userbase of PC because the target age group of Pokemon is ~10 and you can't even join PC at that point, haha.
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I have an account over on Reddit and being subscribed to the subreddits for the cities I live(d) in is a whole different experience to being on PC. People have meetups almost every month in San Francisco and LA for reddit. It'd be crazy to see meetups on PC. :P Not even sure there would be enough people to justify having one in most places!
 
Klippy said:
I have an account over on Reddit and being subscribed to the subreddits for the cities I live(d) in is a whole different experience to being on PC. People have meetups almost every month in San Francisco and LA for reddit. It'd be crazy to see meetups on PC. :P Not even sure there would be enough people to justify having one in most places!
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That actually is pretty surprising because I see Reddit usually as really privacy-centric! The other forum I'm talking about everyone tends to doxx themselves as a matter of course so once you've been on there for a few years, seen deeply personal stories of other people and have learned to trust everyone else and maybe have even received money if you're struggling, you feel comfortable meeting people in real life.
 
Oryx said:
That actually is pretty surprising because I see Reddit usually as really privacy-centric! The other forum I'm talking about everyone tends to doxx themselves as a matter of course so once you've been on there for a few years, seen deeply personal stories of other people and have learned to trust everyone else and maybe have even received money if you're struggling, you feel comfortable meeting people in real life.
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I guess it depends on the subreddits you subscribe to/view. I am subscribed to a lot of areas and I don't see as much privacy as I do on here! Like I said, city-specific subreddits tend to have meetups often and, especially in San Francisco, when someone posts a picture they took in the city, people usually identify the location fast and then try to meet up or create an event for the members to go hang at. Obviously other people choose to use "throwaway" accounts to hide personal information, but in those smaller areas, you tend to see more revealing information than you would elsewhere.

(As well, I've Skyped/webcammed with tons of PC members and even met one [Marz] a few years back. I'd love to meet more people from here, especially my close friends that I've made from this forum, but that tends to happen slowly as you develop the trust and friendship) :)
 
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I might be the only person being active on PC in my whole town. And if I'm not, I probably don't want to know haha. Would be creepy meeting a stranger saying "hey, you're that mod from PC aren't you?" In Swedish!
 
Oryx said:
Sometimes PC confuses me. On another forum I visit as soon as someone moves near another person the first thing anyone does is set up a meetup to get them used to the area. I know if I post on there "I want to meet some people in this forum from Chicago!" I'd have a dozen responses. Here it's like everyone hides their identity so closely that I didn't even know if anyone lived in this area until now, and even then those people wouldn't want to meet up. I guess part of it is an age group (the other forum is mostly late 20s-mid 30s) and part of it is just culture.
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It breaks my heart to see how reclusive some people are </3

In my case I've met up with a few friends I've initially met online... and some of them are on here now! The quiet Oddisee is someone that hosted me in Belgium for a week, Jeshkat and I live about 25-30 miles apart, (there's water in the way so we have to go round that of course) and Grand Wizard Ryan is about 80-100 miles off. I'm gonna be seeing a play of his that he's written and staying at his next month. <3

ONE DAY MY DEAREST LEGENDARY OTP MATT (maccrash) AND I WILL MEET AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS.
 
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