Re-building Our Friends Lists-- One name at a time
Like some kind of awful spider, I lie in wait in the Members Section... Do I recognize that name? Was that a friend on the other side?
With JOY, I pounce on the names, and shoot out a friend's request!
It feels so much better with so many of you here! We're all going to be together again, under one roof . We can still talk, and laugh together! The site is large enough to accommodate all of us, yet not so large we get lost! Even better, it is a community driven site-- no surprises! (Thank God. We can take root in safety.)
I'm so glad to see so many people here! I've missed you all very much!
Please don't be offended if you receive a friend's request before you have time to catch your breath, and please don't be offended if I can't find you-- or don't recognize your new name! The best thing about this place is that we can find old friends and make lots of new ones!
So, for all our new members-- WELCOME !
To all our members that have been here awhile-- THANK YOU
To Perrie, who runs this site: God Bless You!
Golly! This feels WONDERFUL!
This is the best I've felt about things since last July... 
Downright giddy, to be honest... Everything is going to be all right. We will still be able to find each other.
Remember: A good friend will come to bail you out of jail. A true friend will sit beside you and say, "Wasn't that fun?"
Thanks, y'all! 
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It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
So glad that so many of you have come to be with us! We're going to have some fun, now!!!
Dowser, a Zen Master once said,...Always remember to forget...
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you.
I love that! And the picture is perfect!!!
What is that, a monkey? a lemur? It sure is cute!
You're making me blush again, Dowser. Then you follow that up with a favorite song by one of my favorite bands (OK, it's almost everyone's favorite bands) but still...
Now it's my turn to say some thanks:
To Mac, to whom I would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. He is the rock of this place.
To my mods, inalphabeticalorder: Bruce, Larry, Mike, Peter and Randy... with out you guys I could never manage. And newbies, there is always a spot open on the moderation team. Get used to the place and the CoC and watch how we do it here, and I'll be glad to have you aboard.
I too struggle to keep up with my friend requests. I want everyone to feel at home, and part of that is that you can always feel comfortable contacting me. I am just another member, who wears the "Resident Adviser" hat.
Dowser, old friend.. what took you so long to find me, LOL! No, I get it. Home is where the heart is. NV was everyone's home for a very long time...even for me! It's hard to let go of that...I really do get it.
Dowser,
I feel the same! I went through a grieving process with the vine closing. Like you I kept saying to myself " It's just a website... it's just a website... "
It truly felt like a huge loss....
It is nice to see all the refugees from the vine...
E
I have to ditto what everyone has said here, particularly about the grieving process and the acute sense of loss. Finding so many of my friends here has been wonderful... and if I haven't sent someone a FR, it is because I don't recognize the name. But feel free to send me a FR... this site is very conducive to friendships!
Cute puppy!!!!
But everything changed with the unveiling of the new format. Friends were lost. The comfortable place where I felt most at home was gone. It was no longer a sanctuary but a place filled with chaos.
I am grieving the loss of Newsvine. But having this NewsTalkers site to turn to has been such a blessing. Especially since many of the lovely exceptional friends have made their way over.
Okay, sniff, enough wine for me. I'm getting all watery.
Who were you on the vine GeeGee?
Hehe.... silly me!
I know you do, dear friend.
I have loyalty issues-- being the daughter of an alcoholic, I am sometimes TOO loyal. Hey, it happens!
It was a huge loss, for all of us, even though we may be in several places now. Change that one doesn't want is always hard-- but change is inevitable...
At this point, I am beginning to realize that I owe thanks to NV for dynamiting me out of there...
It is, at that!
(((((((((Gee Gee)))))))))))))
I think we all feel that way! It was a hard loss, but we have a wonderful new beginning, with many of the same friends we had before!
It's a Miracle!
Love that picture!
((((((dowser))))))
I love you, dear Pat... Always have!
POISONED?
Oh my gosh! I hope that your neighbor lives to regret it...
Poor baby, I'm so very sorry to hear this! Poisoned... Oh my gosh!
Hahaha! Sunshine, I'm not! But thank you!
I'm just so glad to see everyone!!!
I run the gamut of good emoticons:
((((Shelby))))
Yes! It's me!
That just breaks my heart about your dalmation!!
Me, too, dear Erinn!
That is so fucked up!
Sorry about your dog friend. Looked like a good guy too.
I'm here if anyone of my friends from the Vine want to shot me a FR.
LOL, dear wheel! I do understand what you mean!
Have I sent you a FR? Because I wanted to, the instant I saw your name!!! I'm having trouble being a good "spider", and catching people as they come in...
I think I have both of you on my friend's list... I surely hope so!!!
I'm the very same way!!!
For me, all this is a good thing-- I'm learning a LOT!
I'm still checking in with a couple of articles that I've made comments on, and I'm really catching some heat over there.
Piffle.
I need to quit going over there at all-- all it does is make me upset.
Aw, GeeGee. I'm here fer ya! Dowser musta known you needed your sister from another mister. I can try to say something disgustingly gross to make you happy. I know how you like that stuff. Wanna see my ingrown hair again?
If you're the wrong GeeGee, my apologies. MY GeeGee loved the ingrown hair, but I know it might be an unsavory topic first thing in the morning.
Erinn....preachin' to the choir, my friend. Preachin' to the choir. It was shock and awe when I went to the new vine the first time. Bush the moral/mental midget couldn't have done better fucking everything up!
I second that! So many here, even the ones I like to debate. I just wish I could get Grisham and Enoch in the door. I'm really gonna miss them.
You are my soul sister for sure, my darling. Thank you for the hundreds of smiles and uncontrollable giggles you have caused me - and for the many undies I've had to change because I tend to pee when I have an unplanned guffaw.
My love for you is infinite.
Now, if we can just get Augur Well here...
Grish was here, but disappeared... I don't know why! and Enoch... dear Enoch. Sometimes, we could really use his wisdom and calm.
Perrie this site is WONDERFUL!
Much love to you!
OH NO, YOU DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT!!
GeeGee, I'm dyin' ovah heah!!! Dammit, girl ... did I have a life before you??!? Hahaha! You gotta meet my family!
LOL, y'all!!!
Hahahaa!!! You are right!
Oh my gosh.
What on earth is wrong with these people????
My ONLY consolation is that God will get them in the end.
I prefer animals to humans, most of the time. SIGH!
As Mz. Dowser has said so well, it is great to see so many familiar faces here! I have not had as much time to spend here as I would like, but I am looking foward to a time that I will have time.... I have been here, lurking, as time allows, trying to get my tired old brain to focus on how to navigate the site, still in a learning curve... Hmmm, still looking for a spell check (I can manage to spell a one letter word incorrectly!). Do we have an official spelling patrol here, that will punish me when I spell something wrong?
Funny, on this site being a "friend" has never really matter as there were so few members and all knew each other. I guess that as the site grows, this aspect will become more important.
Maybe it's just important to me... It helps me keep track of special people that I know better than other special people that I want to get to know better!
I'm sorry if you find it to be offensive, and can assure you that it isn't meant that way, at all!
Huh? Sorry, you misinterpreted my post, I guess I wasn't clear enough. Clearly when there are more members on a site, as there are now, the idea of "friends" becomes more important.
That is what I was trying to say. I just never really considered it before as when there are only a few members, they are pretty much all "friends" in that way.
So, no, I don't find it offensive at all, sorry if I gave that impression, was not meant.
Dear wmolaw, I was just checking... Thanks for your further explanation, though, it did help me to understand!
I didn't want you to be unhappy about all the new members, and I had invited a bunch of them... Please forgive me, if, in any way, I misled you, or sounded nasty. I don't know that we're friends. If I send you a request, would you do me the honor of being my friend?
Exactly!
not by me, crazy rooster! It's all I can do to splel, myself.
It's good to find old friends from NV and to make new ones too. I'm looking forward to the time when there is more news on the front page to comment on or am I missing something?
I think people put up what they want to... If you go to the news and politics tab, you may see just news items. Same for the other tabs, too!
Thanks!
My pleasure!
I like the way this is set up. Some news sites have SO much going on all over the page, nonstop EVERYTHING....it's like an ADHD party. Quite overwhelming. I find this much calmer.
Me too! Peaceful! and FUN!
Love you, Stephi-- I don't know you very well, but, what I know, I really love!
Thanks, Stephi-- you've made MY day, too!
Love that heart, too!
(((((((((((Stephi))))))))))))
YOU, my friend, are a bonafied doll. A real sweetheart. I am so fortunate to know you!
We are friends, dear Stephi! Now THAT is good news!!!
I love you!!! Take care!!
Of course. And I would never, ever be unhappy re: new members. When Jack and the Forum Refugees went to NV it was brand new, run by the creators and Dennis, of course. There was a TON of angst as some of us that were in the Fugees were (gasp) of a classical liberal/conservative nature. Drove them batty, except Calvin, of course, who loved the energy and traffic that we drove.
I remember, oh, I remember. Of course I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but 6 years ago, I got it!
I've sent the request-- and thank you!!!
Gotta love folks like us Dowser, with easy to remember names who have been around long enough to have the safe and comfortable feeling of course I know exactly who you are!! hugs pd :~)