Chat!

The day before yesterday, for the first time, I braved the social anxiety forum chatroom - inspite of its fearsome reputation for being incredibly cliquey and hostile to new comers.

I just typed those two lines, and then I realised this story isn't actually going anywhere interesting...and that by the time you read them, they probably won't break neatly over two lines anymore, but hey...I have nothing better to do than write this post, and at least it will be a short one.

Short story short: Actually, that chatroom wasn't at all hostile like I was repeatedly told - contrary to the constant public complaints about its impenetrability, as soon as I joined, despite my initial hopes of lurking in the background, I received an avalanche of welcome messages. Lacking anything better to say, I pointed out that they weren't living up to their cliquey chat-illuminati reputation, and this led to a long and hilarious conversation based around such nuances of chatroom society as the fact that all the regulars address each other by names other than their screen names - they never use the screen names to refer to each other. Ever.

Unfortunately someone then got offended by one of my clique-jokes, but I apologised to them and they said they had just misunderstood, so it was all good. See, that was the little twist in the plotline of this post there. It was a bit of an anti-climax though, wasn't it? Would've been a better story if they'd sent me a death threat and then I'd hacked into Russia's nuclear control centre and started WWIII - but that didn't happen.

So...yeah. How are things going with you, random blog-reading person? Look, you can leave anonymous comments here, you know, so you can really write anything - the spam bots do. We could have a chatroom based entirely on the comments section of this post. No? I thought not, nobody except my followers and the occasional person worried by the suicidal declarations I make when I am in one of my pseudo-dysthmic-episodes, as I call them, ever leaves a comment. Yet strangely, my profile views indicate that they view the blog nonetheless. Perhaps this trend is related to the fact that I can't write for shit, and that even if I could I wouldn't have anything interesting to write about? What's your opinion? I see.