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For those who were on EP: How have your posting and commenting habits changed from what they were on EP?

On EP, the default setting showed posts from friends, experience groups we had joined, and the Question of the Day. The only questions that showed up were questions from friends. We could always opt to see all the questions or all the stories being posted, or if we wanted to check out questions on a particular topic, we could do that too.

But on SW, we can either see all the posts (unless we’ve opted out of viewing adult material), or we can see posts from only friends (which is a bit too narrow for me), or we can see all the posts from our friends, all our experience groups, and all the question topic groups that we've posted questions in as well (unless we choose to view only stories, which would mean we would see no questions). I usually choose this last setting, as it seems to be the most reasonable middle ground available, but I still end up having to wade through, or scroll past, all kinds of inane posts.

On EP, I responded to almost all the posts that showed up in my feed on the default setting, because they were almost always posts that interested me. But on SW, I find that I’m much more picky about which posts I respond to. It’s frustrating sometimes to have to look through so much crap before finally finding something worth looking at. But I keep at it, a little bit each day.

If my posting habits have changed, it’s because there are different things going on in my life now, and the stuff that I had posted about on EP is now old news. Also, the last presidential election got a lot of people (including me) talking about politics, which, believe it or not, I usually don’t talk about too much.


So how have your posting and commenting habits changed, and why?
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Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
more chat and questions, less group talk now
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Subsumedpat I've noticed that too. It's harder to keep track of friends now, unless you message them regularly.
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
I find myself goofing off a lot here because there are no in group conversations. With EP I talked a lot in groups that I was in, I was in an epilepsy group, a couple of brain injury groups and some other weird groups (one might have lead to the other). I talked to people about medication, side effects, and effects of the condition. When not dealing with serious subjects I goofed off, killed time and played around so I used EP for serious subjects as well as entertainment. Here the atmosphere is completely different, you can join a group but there are no running conversations going on in that group everything seems to default to the main questions page and the value of the shared experiences in the groups is gone. I was hoping when this site popped up they would simply copy the EP site and make a few improvements but that did not happen.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Subsumedpat I see what you mean, and I've noticed that too. On EP, I sometimes saw the same people posting in certain groups that I was in, and we would sometimes revisit certain subjects and talk in depth about them. When I posted stories in the groups that I was in, it was always so nice to see people responding who were also in those groups and could relate to my experiences. And you're right, that's gone here. :(

I suspect that this site would probably have to get a lot bigger (maybe about 10 times bigger) for the admin to finally decide to give us better filtering options for our main feed. If it were filtered like EP's feed was, we would see more stories we could relate to, and when we posted, we would feel more like we were talking among friends.

I would love to see that happen, but I'm not holding my breath.
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
@TeresaRudolph71 Yes the in depth group based conversation is the biggest thing missing here, I doubt things will change though the big difference is one site was a help site this one is built of maximizing traffic for ads to make money. It still gives me a place where I can talk about things I would not in a public forum like facebook where everyone knows you, a lot of the things I have talked about here I never would have talked about at all if it were not for EP and now SW.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Subsumedpat At least there is that, we have a place to talk about stuff anonymously. But yes, I would love to see this become more of a support site like EP was. Maybe that's too much to hope for, I don't know. By the way, I have Adblock, so I don't even see those ads anyway. ☺
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
I use one too, and I still get some good conversations just in messages and it is harder to connect