dangerously so - I'm getting quite obsessed: can't bring myself to close my browser window, keep pressing F5 on the BB3 forum front page so I can see new posts the instant they appear, I've even started having weird subdom fantasies about 'stern' Beth.

It's brilliant Cal. Gives a real panache to the sort of drivel we usually put on these forums. Fun drivel though

MGOM

Don't let Beth's husband hear you say that.

Am I the only one who didnt know abou this? i have bee going backwards and forwards between the forums to get the recent threads to update!!!

A Helen moment. D'Oh!!!

Oh yeah Chrissie I couldn't even tell you some of the places I've plugged my laptop in for a quick 'fix'

Seriously though what a stunning success these forums are. The DS team must be glowing. I know I would be if I was involved.

MGOM


ps maybe DS would let us have a BB3 ex-pats forum after BB3 ends??? <hint hint> I know the GD is there but having visited Ithink the arrival of ex BB3's might provoke a 'WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET' exit as the hordes appear over the event horizon

PS - i meant to say in my previous thread that I really find it comforting to know there are others in the same sorry state.

I love reading the threads - especially those that really have a real gift for words.

No need for Mr H. to worry, seeing lovely Alex on BB has made me realise I'm gay (dodgy thong notwithstanding).

The GD forum can get a bit of getting used too but it can be very good fun. I've been visiting DS nearly everyday for over two years now and it is definitely the best forum that I have visited. Yes there are a few idiots around but the vast majority here are very friendly.

Also take this opportunity to invite everybody to Friday's Live Chat during and in between the C4 eviction shows. Just click the 'Live Chat' link on the DS:BB site and use your forum username and password to enter.

Will try to be there MrO

Can I drag the thread back to topic

Net communication is a meta language with a new set of 'rules' as well as lots of the rules of verbal comms - smilies etc to indicate intention/mood etc.

It strikes me as quite weird that we are all watching a 'reality' show that isn't and then talking to each other in the way we do - with aliases - forming alliances, flirting, arguing and sometimes being aggressive.

It's compulsive - like BB3 - but its not 'real'

So theres a double willing suspension of reality going on.

Discuss

MGOM

To tell the truth I'm fed up discussing 'Virtual Communities'. I had to write a very long essay about them just a few weeks ago for University.

I can say that DS doesn't replace my real life socialisation but mearly suppliments it

OMG it isn't??? How will I tell the dog, she thinks the HM's live with us! I have to leave E4 on for her when I'm out ya know

lu
*going to have loads of free time when BB finishes*

Oh! and my name is lulu and I'm a BB addict

How far back did you go in your research of Virtual Communities? The only reason I ask is that my name used on this forum goes back about 8/9 years when the idea of a virtual community was 'new'. I used to be a member of something called 'Virtual Places' .... one of the first real communities (long since replaced by VP2 and then taken over by Lycos).

The strange thing is - that I am still in contact with some of those original members from all those years ago.

So, in conclusion, people using DS today may still be in contact with some of the same people using it in say 10 years time - perhaps not on DS, but by email or ICQ or similar.

A forum such as DS brings like-minded people, who have a common interest, in contact with each other !

I disagree: it's as "real" as any social interaction.
Please name one type of interaction you believe to be more "real"


jack

So you think it can be as valid a 'meeting place' as in real life?

I wonder if the very fact you were doing something quite ground-breaking all those years ago - cutting edge etc - is a factor whereas these days anyone can get online and post/chat etc?

MGOM
not sure myself

Psycologial assessment of my self!

34
loves a gossip..............
female
loves a gossip!!!!!!!!!!!!!
married
loves a gossip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
kids
loves a gossip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
professional
loves a gossip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
V.G social life
loves a gossip!!!!!!!1
watch V little tv usually only the news on news 24 bbc
loves a gossip.......................


Why do we all watch BB and read and discuss on this site?

People!

we all like to watch and comment on other peoples lives wether they are playing up or being themselves

the stories i could tell.....................

at the end of the day we all love to be nosy! and gossip about others and this is a way you could do it with people you have never met before yet we all know what we are talking about

Just listen to people when you are on a bus or train
the conversation always gets round to BB3

I cant remember the last time for a change that when a mobile phone went off on the bus that some one says "I'm on the Bus!"
its all BB

oh well it will be all over next Friday!

Of course it's "valid" and its CERTAINLY social: my work invloves dealing with many people daily by email. Would that not be valid? (we get to know each other quite well!)

What about contact by telephone?

What about pen pals?

Under your World View when DOES an interaction become "valid", "real" or "social"???

Is physical contact, the difference?
Jack

Well I disagree. There's interaction certainly but when say Epitheticus interacts on a forum with MyDogBites there are some basic elements missing dont you think?

OK its fun and it can be quite thought-provoking but you can't look into someone's eyes and get all the non-verbal cues.

IMHO its as valid and as 'real' as BB itself.

But nonetheless it has a 'value'

But I'd rather sit down with a glass of wine and talk to someone face to face than pound this laptop - and correct my typing errors!!

MGOM
nite nite virtual pals

!!!!!!!!!!BRING BACK THE DAVINA THREAD!!!!!!!!

Jack says: BRING BACK THE DAVINA THREAD!!!!

No-one seems to gossip about people at work anymore.

After the shift handover we settle down for a cup of tea and discuss the HMs instead. And with our new computers installed recently we can access the likes of the DS forums. YAY!!! (I am on a night shift tonight and it will surely make the time go quicker.)

Sad?? I don't think so. For a while we are leaving someone else alone. Someone at work could be having a torrid affair with someone they shouldn't be and none of us would notice!

I am not sure what I will do when it is finished. I have e4 on the "live" feeds during the day, just in case anything of note happens, like someone goes to the toilet, or eats breakfast. I just love people watching.
E4 should buy in the foreign versions to keep us all going, or commission rolling BBs. You could replace all the evictees and have a continuously changing House, with someone getting a prize every 8 weeks or so if they last that long. (getting carried away now)

BC
whose cat will sorely miss the chickens.

Just pop over to the US version which started on Wednesday, (I think their version lasts 16 weeks!)

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother3/

I wish we could have a channel that showed various BB's from the US, Australia, New Zealand etc (even the old ones) just to see how different people are around the world.
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Hello - my name is plums and I'm not a BB3 addict but came to this thread to see if I could help those that are.
I know I'm not addicted because I didn't ask NTL to give me E4 - but was pleased when they accidentally put it on for 24 hrs. I only watched during the 19 hours I was awake that day.
I did on 2 occasions 'find' a link to Realplayer streams for 24 hrs and during those times still managed to eat,drink,go to the toilet and wash/shower/shave by placing a large mirror in such a way as to see my PC monitor.
I only stay on this forum until 2am most nights.

BB3 addict - not me mate !


I'm also a lightweight as my tally of posts include lots from the other forums on DS............
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Like others I have noticed in this thread, I am also doing a thesis (well, a dissertation...), which means 'working' from home. I kid myself that having BB on E4 pootling away in the background is merely a relaxing hum, that analysing the dynamics of the HMs inter-relationships will facilitate a greater appreciation of a) social psychology, and b) modern, popular culture - all very useful for my academic research, of course! (The fact that my current study focus is adapations of Jane Austen's courtship plots, is completely beside the point!) I am also buying a house, supposed to be embroiled in the hassle of moving, and my husband has started a new job - and yet he still knows to ask me first and foremost how Alex is getting on. So sad.
Actually, Alex is my particular problem, I find. I don't fancy him at all, I often find him irritating beyind belief, but for some bizarre reason wish to know his precise location 24/7. If I hear his droney, dulcet tones, I have to listen. Simple. This is so annoying. I wish he had been evicted, as I'm kept in a perpetual state of suspense wondering what he'll do next.

Hello Gadfly, I know EXACTLY what you mean! I cannot resist listening to him! His voice drives me potty but he suddenly comes out with stuff that makes me laugh and I can't bear to miss them. I do have an excuse 'tho, he reminds me of my father, who died two years ago. Make his voice a bit posher and a bit deeper and it could be him (only he was a lot more intelligent). My father also had all those camp little mannerisms and what I loved about him was that he had the confidence not to care what people thought about his campness God I miss him:'( Sorry, rambling.
Mavis

I only have access to the internet at work and unfortunately don't have E4 at home. The first thing I do when I come into work is to read the live updates from last night and catch up on all the discussions of the previous night and then all day I read discussions. Oh god I am obsessed, the first thing I do when I go home is to tell my housemates what revelations there have been that day. Someone lock me up please quick! However, I have to say that this is way the best BB website there is and I would be lost without it!

Oh and now I have just become a forum member, at last I feel complete!