How secretive...

...are you about this forum?

Just wondering...I suppose there's quite a few that don't care about them being a forumer or that anyone they know could see what they do here, but I do wonder about the people who keep it to themselves, especially living in a house with someone else, or being married and whatnot..

Do your housemates know? Friends? Family?

I guess I kinda keep it a secret, I don't hide it when people come in the room, but when they do, I also make sure they can't see me posting, my posts, my profile or anything of the sort, and if they ask, I saw it's nothing and do something else...

 

i dont really care. i actually got my co worker to check out Hip,
N she started to like it shes a hard core christain and is always bitchin or fightin with someone on the religious forums.
but im just glad shes not tryin to convert me

 

Yeah, is showed it to someone (over the phone..) once, an ex, and she thought it was kinda neat but it seemed to me that she also thought it odd...so I was slightly embarassed.

 

I am extremely secretive about this forum and my real identity.

I take privacy very seriously.

 

You are ashamed of us.

Peace

 

If people want to find out shit about me, they will, so I'd rather just lay it on the table. All of my friends know about this place, but they also know that they'd better snoop through my stuff with discretion, because this is where I vent all my frustrations.

 

I guess I am not that secretive about it

I don't go around talking about it to people I know, but the person I live with and those who come over here sometimes see me posting every so often

I doubt anyone is bored enough to figure the site out and read through my posts

 

Noone knows and noone will.

 

oh my boyfriend would be so fucking angry if he read the shit i post here

 

I dont think my parents would be too happy if they knew I'm posting on a hippy forum.

 

I used to find this forum very engaging and full of insights into human behaviour so i'd often refer to it in general conversation. My parents would often say I was wasting my time and then they would go and sit by the television all night.

I am starting to think that both TV and hipforums are great promoters of brainlessness and inaction.

 

I don't hide that I come here, but I don't tell people much about it because I don't want most of them to join.

 

The difference is that TV always is what it is. This place is what we make it.

Your parents stand no chance of increasing the mental stimulation a tv provides. You do.

 

Blah you, nor I don't stand a mother fuckin chance in hell of making this better than the boring, uneducational, gen y wank that this continually fails to rise above. Sad but true.

 

I refer to this as one of "my message boards". I call it "my hippie board" or the hipfourms. And no, I'm not secretive about it at all. I owe a lot to these forums. I've been on here since I was 14 and being able to discuss just about anything in an open forum with a wide range of opinions and perspectives probably helped make me who I am today.

 

My family all know about it... My dad reads the forums regularly, actually. hahah. I think he has an account too, come to think of it. I think my brother checks it out once in a while.

And, an ex-boyfriend knows, but I think he found it slightly weird, but only slightly.

Other than that, I don't really tell people about it. I talk to my family about a couple of the people on here that I'm internet-close with sometimes, but yeah. :biggrin: I generally keep it kinda on the DL.

 

I disagree. I've seen this place operate on a higher level a number of different times. Everybody here is capable of rational conversation. They just choose not to have them.

That attitude is what keeps you from being able to hold anybody's attention with a meaningful discussion. You, like most, aren't interested in coming up with a good idea for one.

 

I wouldn't want people I know joining either.

Kinda for the same reason Kinky Ramona gave... I like to vent, I like to say what I want, and it probably wouldn't be the best thing in the world if a lot of people saw it.

and no SH, I'm not ashamed....Just wary of other's reactions and curiosity.

 

my lover and i are both on here. i sometimes tell people about it. but i don't really have any close friends not on the net since i moved recently, so i don't have to worry about that. come to think of it, i'd prolly tell them to get on here too. there's very little about my life that i keep secret. and if it's too secret for the general public to know i don't tell about it on hip.

 

I'm not really a secretive person in general. I'm pretty open about everything. All my closest friends know that I post here, only two of them have seen it though. None of them are really interested in reading it though. Except one who I referred here. He mostly just posts in the stoners lounge and marijuana forum and stuff though.
I know my parents know that I post here because they're always watching tv behind me while i'm on here. I don't know if they know what it's all about, and i don't care.
Although it might kind of suck if they look it up and see my posts...