the way we were
Fri, September 12, 2008 - 2:06 PMThis fall will mark 5 years I've been on tribe. I've come a long way since that poor, barely-out -of-college, invalid, overworked soul up to her eyeballs in debt and tiredness who jumped on tribe only because some kid she once boinked made her join and the doctor-ordered bedrest made her bored out her skull. (Fuck. Who was that girl?)
All these million private messages, private flirtations, public scandals, ridiculous games, fun times and imagined dramas. I wish I could go to amazon.com and order a book holding the archives of the past 5 years of my doings and undoings on tribe.
Yes, I'm preemptively mourning its loss in a rather pathetic way but I can't help it. I get sappy. I'm not sure if a lot people know this about me but I am. I can be wonderfully, horrifically sappy. Go ahead, mock me, but I know deep inside, you'll mourn a little too. I mean, after all, you're still here, logged in, and reading tribe blog posts, aren't you? ;)
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 2:49 PM
Am with you on this.
I was contemplating trying to save blog posts and photos, but at the same time I was just thinking that maybe I'd be better off just letting it all go away and welcoming a new chapter in life.
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 2:51 PM
> I get sappy. I'm not sure if a lot people know this about me but I am.
*raises hand* I know that you are sappy :P And yeah, I am with you sweetie. I joined tribe right after monkey and I had 'the' fight... after we had been to SF and a Mister Flint had told me how cool it was, I went back to LA, checked out and made my first ever profile on one of these things. I was shy and nervous at first, lots of lurking... but overtime I found my voice on tribe as I found out who I was without monkey. Tribe has brought so many of you into my world, I moved here from LA as well, and yes, tribe was a part of that as well... yeah, so many memories, flirtations, silly time wasting good ness. Deep soul seraching conversations, bizarre dramas and bs... tribe is my online home and playland and yeah, it will break my heart a bit if it does die... I am still hopeful... ever hopeful that it will pull through yet again. After all, how many times have we been through this 'the sky is falling' scenario here? But yeah... I am worried and sad too. *hugs* |
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 3:14 PM
I know I was glib the other day, but I love tribe and would be very sad if it goes away. It has the most interesting and unique online community I've ever come across. I've checked out nearly all the other social networking site, but none of them are quite like tribe. I've gotten grumpy about the outages though, and it doesn't seem like it's getting the support it deserves. I wish there was a way we (the users) could truly take it over and make sure that it works. I know there are tons of people on here who know how to do the backend of this kind of site.....I really don't want it to die.
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 4:02 PM
sap away, sister.
I would be sad to see it go too, but it has been dying a slow death for so long that I think I've already done all my mourning. I have had great fun here. Laughing to the point of crying, meeting great people. Meeting my husband, for pete's sake.... At this stage, it almost feels like having an old pet that is in miserable pain and just feeling like you should put it out of it's misery. : / |
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 5:17 PM
Wistful thought...
With a bit of shoe polish, this place could be around 500 years from now.
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Unsu...
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Fri, September 12, 2008 - 5:26 PM
Yeah, I'm joining the chorus of people who will be sad to see the Tribe chapter of my life close.
I ALSO met my husband here (and I would really love to know the count of people who met their SOs via Tribe...) plus lotsa awesome friends. I went to a buncha cool parties and learn a buncha cool things. I have been involved in other really kickass online communities before Tribe, however, like IRC (efnet), and I am still friends with a couple of select people I knew from those days (one of them was even at my wedding, about 15 years after we first met!) The IRC chapter of my life closed, but it was responsible (at least indirectly) for me getting into the tech industry, moving to the Bay Area, and having anything resembling a dating/social life while in college. I'm not sure that I had a point here, but like Ali said, it may be best to let this chapter close and make room for the next one. :) |
