A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 I need a hug...

Hey guys! I havent really posted here much, mainly on the fruits and veggies page. But I wanted to share this. Making friends isnt easy, ya know? So, on another web site I frequent, I was trying to get more involved with a certain board. Found out, if you use "blinkies" there, you're basically considered untouchable! I wont go into too much detail. Let's just say I posted at the wrong place at the wrong time, and got to feeling like a total outcast.

That's all, just reaching out and saying hi!

Karen

Hugs 'Sparagus.

Sending over a hug 'Sparagus

Well I think some are wackier than others of course!! I come and go around here so don't be surprised if you don't see me for a few months at a time.



Hugs

Karen, stick around here---we're a wacky, fun-loving bunch!

(((Hugs)))

What the......!

Karen, that is just not right. We are all wacky and crazy here so forget that other place and make your home here with us! We will treat you right!

THANK YOU!



Dont worry, that other site had nothing to do with gardening.

For you, Karen - feel free to be wacky here with us anytime!

Okay 'Sparagus, what the heck is a "blinkie"???
I am soooooooooooo curious...

Cindy and Laura are the ...

But this site really is a nice family orientated group... Who love gardening, and doin' a bit o' yakkin' on the side too!
*We'd be havin' a serious Backyard BBQ if everyone lived closer too*

And remember, GOD works in MYSTERIOUS WAYS 'Sparagus..
He puts people in our paths...

Amen to that Weezie!

Blinkies
are little things you can put in your posts to make them more colorful, and maybe tell others about you a little.

Oh those are way cute. I just found a bunch of them. Thanks for the tip!

Yeh, but Cindy is the seriously wacky one...I'm just a wacky one in training!

I have some Cindy blinkies!
Can I use them here without being shunned?
I think so!

'Sparagus looks like I will be the first old man here to give you a cyberhug(((((((((((((((((((hug)))))))))))))))))))). I was on 5 gardening? sites before I found this . Could not get an answer from any of them when I would ask something it was ether ignored or someone would say "I thought everyone knew that" . Since finding this place I took them off my favorites in about an hour. I think it may have been Vanessa or Cindy that helped me first then Weezie and Loz and Catlover was right there as was Ducky. I sure miss Catlover and Duckey.
But peppereater should be here before long wrapping his cyber arms around you. Welcome to the forum. If there is anyway I can help you let me know I will try my best to help anyway I can.

Me too!!!!
I hope she will be back soon...

As a sociologist currently doing research about the type of people who join forum communities, I've observed the gardenhelper site for several months. Though this site shares many common traits with other forums, there are some unique differences.

My study excludes casual members who limit their forum participation to plant topics, focusing instead on members who, to paraphrase them, consider this forum to be their "home". The gardenhelper community seems to engage in less blatant back-biting that other similar forums, however, co-existing with the good-natured camaraderie and obvious caring among members, I discern a subtle, disturbing undercurrent. Some of the regular posters to this site, particularly those with inordinately high number of posts, exhibit an unusual devotion to the gardenhelper community, such as that found amongst individuals attracted to certain dysfunctional self-help groups and cults. Certainly not all members fall into this category but there seems to be a rather disproportionate number compared to other forums.

As enough preliminary data are collected from gardenheper.com, I will be moving onto the next case study, however, if anyone is interested in learning more about the current study, have any questions, or are interested in receiving a copy of the study once it is published, feel free to PM me. I will check for messages for at least a couple weeks, longer if interest exists.

Regards,
Sonja

Did we all just get psychoanylized?


Hugs for you, 'Sparagus!! No one is ridiculed here! We all learn, every day.

by Mel me thinks so. Maybe she can get us all to cedar hill at same time make everyones dream come true when she sells this. But we already knew we are

GOOD MORNING! Whoa.....very interesting....



All those messages kept me from jumping on and seeing what was going on in anti-blinkie land.....

Well my "boss" is whining, back at naptime, if that ever happens!

Karen

WOW!

This is our internet "home" and I truly know there isn't a better net place to be, or a better group of people to be here with.

hugs for you sparagus.

come back and see us anytime, We are all friends here!

boy did she miss the boat on me!! BUT...

as a psych major hoping to minor in sociology, there are some very serious points... and i am glad that sonja discovered that WE ARE NICE!!!

{{{{{'sparagus }}}}} you are hugged, well and truly!

and, i'm glad you inspired sonja to post! from a clinical aspect, we are a unique group, and from a web perspective we are even more unique!

so, if normal isn't like us, i don't want to be normal!!!

ok, off here to start work! have a good day everyone!

I agree Jiffy. But nobody ever said we were normal. Also seems to me she needs to take up gardening and unwind some. She wants to analyze us we want to analyze our garden's and plants and see how we can improve them and make very good and close friends while we are at it. How can you beat that. Cult no dysfunctional not hardly I know blood families that are not as functional as we are. Maybe she just needs a cyber hug. Here Sonja just for you ((((((((hugs)))))