So I've been discovering other blogs online. They're blogs of my online friends. Another world that most of my other friends don't really know about.
When I got engaged with mahal back in 2003, I stumbled upon a wedding planning website www.bridalinsider.com (BI) that had a discussion board (DB) that I regularly I visited and posted. In no time, I had my own wedding journal and blogging my wedding planning journey. I was just chatting to Joan'l (close friend of BI/NI) that I need to print that blog out or transfer it somewhere just so that I have my keepsake.
Anyway, after one marries, you kind of graduate on to the sister website, www.newlyinsider.com (NI). That's of course, if you choose to. There were a lot of brides that I befriended on BI that I wished had moved on to NI, but I suppose after the wedding planning ended so did their venture with BI/NI.
Why did I bring this up? Because some of my online friends decided to leave NI for whatever reasons. I missed seeing them online so I did a search and found out that something happened, some kind of controversy and difference of opinions, to cause them to leave. I didn't think that drama could happen on a DB, but it can. It is a whole other community that I am part of. I found it incredibly interesting that so much can come off of words. But I guess there is less to fear when it is typewritten, emailed, texted, etc. as oppose to being upfront in someone's face.
Regardless, I am still online with NI, just not as much as I was before. I am glad that I get to "see" my other friends on their blogs. I almost think it's better.. hehe.
When I got engaged with mahal back in 2003, I stumbled upon a wedding planning website www.bridalinsider.com (BI) that had a discussion board (DB) that I regularly I visited and posted. In no time, I had my own wedding journal and blogging my wedding planning journey. I was just chatting to Joan'l (close friend of BI/NI) that I need to print that blog out or transfer it somewhere just so that I have my keepsake.
Anyway, after one marries, you kind of graduate on to the sister website, www.newlyinsider.com (NI). That's of course, if you choose to. There were a lot of brides that I befriended on BI that I wished had moved on to NI, but I suppose after the wedding planning ended so did their venture with BI/NI.
Why did I bring this up? Because some of my online friends decided to leave NI for whatever reasons. I missed seeing them online so I did a search and found out that something happened, some kind of controversy and difference of opinions, to cause them to leave. I didn't think that drama could happen on a DB, but it can. It is a whole other community that I am part of. I found it incredibly interesting that so much can come off of words. But I guess there is less to fear when it is typewritten, emailed, texted, etc. as oppose to being upfront in someone's face.
Regardless, I am still online with NI, just not as much as I was before. I am glad that I get to "see" my other friends on their blogs. I almost think it's better.. hehe.
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