Do You Ever Look Back....

I miss a few people here i used to have wonderful conversations with.
One person in particular was special. We had lots of laughs, confided in each other. It was a lovely friendship.
But...turned out he was using someone elses pics and i have no idea if anything we spoke about was true.
Since that experience, im much more gaurded about who i speak to.

Absolutely.

I sometimes feel like an oddball here with 2 to 5 paragraph comments or pms in a world where most get it done in one sentence or less.

I'm likewise old school, dating back to compuserve and AOL that got bypassed by cell phone text-messaging where what you wanted to say got clipped at 78 or 80 characters :) Now, even e-mail is joining land-line phones as something so old-world that you have to check if there will be someone the other end to answer. I was just today sending documents and comments to a business partner and after sending the e-mail I texted her to tell her to check her e-mail.

What was wonderful about e-mail, and still is, is that you get to finish a sentence or paragraph before the party you are talking to responds. And you get to respond with a more comprehensive awareness of what you are responding to. That only happens in real life conversation when you share a mic and pass it back and forth. But usually we speak to one another in half sentences.

Life happens.
I used to be on here quite a bit several years back. But what E.P. was, and S.W was in its earlier days has changed. It used to be a place where you could genuinely share experiences, and connect with others that had similar stories. It became too political, and there are other social aspects that became a bit too sophmoric for my liking. So i faded away from here, popping back on sporadically and find I am behind the learning curve with the site changes.
All my old conversations are gone sadly, but i do have pleasant memories of good chats with some good people of which you are included.

There are a few people I have had interesting converstations with for more than a decade, but as you noted, that seems to be happening less and less as more superficial conversations tend to dominate discourse. That's a net loss for all of us, in my opinion.

Thank you for sharing this experience, one I think so many of us find to be common. There is a dichotomy of feelings that emerges when looking back on the conversations of the past. It can truly tug at the heartstrings, especially if the connection was deep and the loss was abrupt.

I have certainly been there and while in the past I have reconnected with the artifacts of an online relationship I find that it can be quite difficult to bear if there was a connection that still lingers in the heart. It can seem almost a challenge to try to revisit the past in that way because it is both beautiful and fulfilling while at once crushingly painful. I tend to have quite a good memory for events in the past so the conversations do remain in some small way always in my thoughs.

And my heart.

I used to at times, but not anymore. 😌

I have them all cleared out but two long convos I kept. I keep those archived.

Yes I do. There were great conversations. But many of those people left or changed personality wise. Many have moved on to different things. Some stopped chatting all together. I do miss them.

Ugh no. I dont look back. Too tragic to consider. Only the horizon ahead.

I used to, but I'm unable to these days. The words are etched in my heart so that's enough.

Most definitely. In fact some time back I started documenting each of those conversations so I can publish them in future as nothing like reading spontaneous reactions developed as conversations.

That way I am old school too for I still miss those random email / irc / Skype days where conversations were intense. We had time for one another and internet came into a population that was matured and inaccessible to kids.

Things changed for the worse when kids got access 😂

You reminded me that I want to delete some hahaha

And about conversations, just wonder what happened to one person.

Most of my conversations bring back warm memories, especially with my time at EP

I change alot in the last 5 years. Im sorry to everyone on here.

I have saved many postings even from EP. Occasionally I read them. They are inspirational. Some people really touch my heart. I am grateful for them. For those who have died or disappeared, I especially am thankful to have their words preserved for all time. These people matter to me. I may forget their real names, but never how they made me feel.

I was looking at you’ve got mail, the film, and remembering my first aol conversation with people back in 2000, and how very exciting that was then! I couldn’t believe I was talking to this strange American. I don’t think I had ever met an American, now it’s every day you encounter them and it’s so normal.

I delete All, even if a countable few had been interesting.
Everything enters in every one's life with an expiry date.

I find it rare to make strong connections here, but there are definitely decent people I enjoy talking to when able.

No. I am an outcast on here, I think alot of people on here realize that. It doesn't bother me, I expect it from people to not like me.. so no, I don't do long replies back and forth on here, and rarely short ones. Not my thing..

I don't have those as I deleted that account a while back. But I remember the essence of some of those conversations. I think I miss that a lot. Those kind of friendships that never got formed again.

Perfect thought for the day. I’m the same way. Been here since EP and made some good friends (virtual). Several have just slipped apart 🤷🏼‍♂️

sure i keep my best friends ,p,m, go back and read them,, so i talk to them i dont keep repeating same thing,,,also the photos are nice to see,,,

Once in a while. I find it always makes me a bit sad so I only do that when I have a little extra room for blue.

I delete them, maybe one or two over the years.

No I don't. Reading conversations backwards makes me dizzy.

If it was interesting, the gist is still in my head.

That's not always a good thing

Yes

er, no i don't.

I am not sure if he found someone more interesting at all, got to the stage used you as much as he could and decided to find another person to troll

I’ve been lucky to “meet” some great people here and have wonderful conversations. The chats are refreshing.

I do that every so often. It is interesting!

no, don't have time for that lol

I deleted my first account where some people actually had things to talk about and we shared interesting things...cooking, hobbies and even helpful tips.
This time around... one person from last time still shares things going on that are interesting.... stuff we both find interesting... growing our own veggies, greenhouse stuff and other things of interest. :)
I can tell you that a couple of the people kept in contact through email and text... and one calls once in a great while. Those make my day. lol

I do not...If I met you in person, I could talk your ear off...As far as online, I'm not a chatter.

I never delete my conversations so I can look back on them. People just don’t want to invest time into anyone and that’s sad.

Also I want to be able to look back on the weirdos.