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I think this is for people who are here for awhile .. what was it? members topics feeling discussion fun or something else?
for the voting .. is it normal to get attached or addicted to this site
The people, mainly. I enjoy being able to voice my opinions without having to censor myself (FREEDOM!) and I like helping people and giving them advice.
Then, there's the bizarre tractor beam pull that this site has over us. We try to leave but, it pulls us right back.
This site is interesting, you know. Knowing that there are soooo many unique people in this world and I love it when I can relate to a post I'm always like "I'm not alone! Some people just do it like me." That's it.
Because I was working a desk job and had literally nothing better to do.
Now, I have a lot of better things to do but sometimes I really just don't want to do them *sigh*.
Now that you ask, you make me realize that I don't know what attracted me to IIN in the first place.
The freedom to ask or answer any question candidly and anonymously keeps bringing me back, sometimes to help others and other times to be helped.
I first came here because I was questioning myself and was feeling lonely. I also hate being judged for things. Coming to this site lets me vent and ask questions without any of the actual social pressure!
Even so, I'm still not all that much of a big participator.
I don't really feel the pull. I used to really get it, how people become so attached to this site. I used to comment like ten or twenty times a day. Now you're lucky to get one comment out of me and I only read a tiny percentage of what is posted every day. I do come here most days, but I could easily just quit. Even the thought of saying "I quit" doesn't feel drastic the same way it did years ago.
If anything keeps me coming back it's the vast portfolio of comments I already have here. It's a permanent record of my change over the last few years. It would be a shame to stop putting entries into the archive. I've kinda invested a lot of time, energy and emotional resources here and to stop coming would be to reject the importance of that.