Do you consider yourself an addict to this site?

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

That chart clearly shows how I spent a year living seven time zones ahead of the place I lived the rest of the time.

My chart shows heavy posting in the early afternoon, which is the overlap between the years I spent in Moscow and my current location 9 time zones behind.

No, I'm not addicted. I average a mere 0.65 posts a day, and I've taken long breaks from this place.

If GMG shut down right now, I wouldn't miss it. I'll just get on Talk Classical or the Steve Hoffman forum.

How do you find the Hoffman forum? I've been tempted to sign up there because they seem to be very eclectic musically and I listen to a lot of non-classical stuff nowadays. On the other hand, I don't need yet another place to waste time.

[Mirror Image]

How do you find the Hoffman forum? I've been tempted to sign up there because they seem to be very eclectic musically and I listen to a lot of non-classical stuff nowadays. On the other hand, I don't need yet another place to waste time.

I can't even remember, but I found them during one of my hiatuses from GMG. There's lots of knowledgeable people there, but a lot of riff raff, too, so proceed with caution. I usually hang out in the classical and jazz threads there.

[vandermolen]

Sounds like she doesn't belong to any "Cat Chat" groups?

By the way, is she feeling back to battery (post-Covid)?

PD

OT

She's fine now thanks PD. Kind of you to ask.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

OT

She's fine now thanks PD. Kind of you to ask.

Yeah!  Happy to hear that!

PD

[Symphonic Addict]

Same here. 

(I voted "yes".)

Thanks for your sincere answer, Andrei!

[Rosalba]

I am not an addict - but I probably would have been about ten years ago, when I first discovered the internet. I could easily spend eight hours a day then, seated at my computer. But now I'm not quite as bad.

[Gurn Blanston]

Have you considered that you have developed behaviors of an addict or kind of obsessed by this forum?

Why, have you heard something?

[amw]

I'm definitely an addict but that's not special; with every website I encounter I either become addicted or lose interest within a few days. It's a known risk factor. In all likelihood I should avoid going online in general, I guess, but as long as I'm aware of the tendency I can sort of manage.

[Maestro267]

Is there a helpline we can call or something? OP sounds like one of those bloody claims adverts.

Have you had an accident that's not your fault?

[LKB]

Devotee yes, addict no.

[steve ridgway]

I see it more as the healthy alternative. 0:)

[Olias]

Not yet, but then I've only been here a week.  The conversations here are much more stimulating than where I teach though so it could happen.

[Jo498]

Not yet, but then I've only been here a week.  The conversations here are much more stimulating than where I teach though so it could happen.

I think one reason some of us have shown semi-addictive behavior towards such sites as this forum is that (classical) music is very important to us but many of us, being neither musicians nor music teachers, have very little interaction or conversation with fellow music enthusiasts in real life. It's easy to make fun of people hanging out too much on such internet sites but usually the ideal real life option, to meet a bunch of friends once or twice a week for an evening of extended listening and talking about music simply is not there.

[Florestan]

I think one reason some of us have shown semi-addictive behavior towards such sites as this forum is that (classical) music is very important to us but many of us, being neither musicians nor music teachers, have very little interaction or conversation with fellow music enthusiasts in real life. It's easy to make fun of people hanging out too much on such internet sites but usually the ideal real life option, to meet a bunch of friends once or twice a week for an evening of extended listening and talking about music simply is not there.

QFT.

[Jo498]

Or even once a year... When I started listening to classical music as a teenager I fortunately had a friend who also contributed to increasing my knowledge of music as he was a few years ahead of me and while he lived 200 km away we met several times per year.  A bit later I additionally had another friend who was a very good pianist and we went for several years to school and university together, so I could meet up with him about every week or so and we could occasionally talk music even in breaks or spare time at school. But this was all many (25+) years ago.
I am still friends with one of them (lost contact without any ill will on neither side with the other one) but we see each other about once a year and music is not really the focus any more. In the late 1990s and early 2000s I had another loose group of friends, including some musicians, I would meet irregularly, often when everyone returned to their parents' place for Xmas or if one of them was involved in a concert (we didn't meet for recorded music listening, though).

All this is over, simply/mostly because people are scattered all over the world for work or family reason or other facts of life intervened. So I have been relying mostly on the internet for classical music conversation since 20 years or more. I even met up with two distinct bunches of people from German language fora several times between ca. 2002 and 2013 but these contacts mostly shrank back to internet again (or it was just too much of a hazzle to travel through half of Germany to meet people).

[Karl Henning]

Why, have you heard something?

(* chortle *)

[foxandpeng]

Devotee yes, addict no.

This

[Olias]

I think one reason some of us have shown semi-addictive behavior towards such sites as this forum is that (classical) music is very important to us but many of us, being neither musicians nor music teachers, have very little interaction or conversation with fellow music enthusiasts in real life. It's easy to make fun of people hanging out too much on such internet sites but usually the ideal real life option, to meet a bunch of friends once or twice a week for an evening of extended listening and talking about music simply is not there.

True, and even as a music teacher, I don't always get the opportunity to talk to other music teachers about it.

[71 dB]

A little addicted maybe... 

[Mirror Image]

I little addicted maybe... 

You is?