Ever find old posts you made on forums

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Kohaku

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And feel embarrassed by them? Like, any forum you used to go to/post on but don't anymore (or ones you still post on, doesn't matter). You don't have to say exactly, just in general. I did last night, one forum I used to go to from like 8~9 years ago (can't believe it's been that long). I was so embarrassed, thinking, "I was really like that, back then? I can't believe it." :huh: (I was sort of weird, I had a crush on a anime character back then, among some things.. Ugh. I don't want to remember. :omg: )

But yeah. Anything like that?
 
I've only ever seen some of my old posts on this website going back to uhh, 2009. The previous forum I've been on has sadly died and has been defunct ever since, so I've no records of anything I posted there. I do recall being someone who was easily confused though. I think this was around 3 or 4 years ago when the concept of internet chat seemed alien to me.

Yup, it's only been two years ago and I totally sound half my age in my old posts. I've gone from being incredibly hyper with the exclamation marks overkill to whatever I am now. I was also incredibly over-excited by the smallest of things, particularly in the news section and that was before my jaded self and the cynicism kicked in. I know those were my newbie days, but Christ, they're so unreadable to me. :O
 
Fleur said:
I've only ever seen some of my old posts on this website going back to uhh, 2009. The previous forum I've been on has sadly died and has been defunct ever since, so I've no records of anything I posted there. I do recall being someone who was easily confused though. I think this was around 3 or 4 years ago when the concept of internet chat seemed alien to me.

Yup, it's only been two years ago and I totally sound half my age in my old posts. I've gone from being incredibly hyper with the exclamation marks overkill to whatever I am now. I was also incredibly over-excited by the smallest of things, particularly in the news section and that was before my jaded self and the cynicism kicked in. I know those were my newbie days, but Christ, they're so unreadable to me. :O
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This.

That is so me.

The first forum I ever joined was a pairing forum. boy what a mistake that was. I originally signed up on it to get news and info on the pairing but I ended up creating an account. I was very... what's the word... um, lively. I fangirled it up a bit too much. I used emotes a lot and stated my every thought on every single detail.

And in this particular fandom trolls would come and act like this, so I sadly was grouped with the "undercover" trolls of our fandom. My grammar and whatnot was okay--I was just too lively is all.

Now I'm still fangirly, but i toned it down some. :mokken:
 
Fleur said:
The previous forum I've been on has sadly died and has been defunct ever since, so I've no records of anything I posted there.
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Same here. :(

I can't really remember how much I varied on forums, but I do find it embarrassing reading old chat logs and old posts on livejournal.

When I was 15, I used text speech and internet lingo on msn because...well, I was excited by it and wanted to become involved in what was (to me) a new phenomenon. My house had only just been connected to the internet, and I hadn't even heard of msn messenger before. Now, I kind of hate text speech... My behaviour was also a lot more hyperactive.

My old livejournal posts, by contrast, are a little bit whiny... I suppose they're not completely over the top - I didn't SCREAM LIKE THIS!!! or pretend to cry - but I did try too hard to be poetic when I felt sorrow. I pledged a love which was deeper than what I felt, and seemed to think that losing one boyfriend was...well, not the end of my life - I always knew that my feelings would change and someone else would come along - but I thought that I'd lost something perfect, which I hadn't. Typical things, really. :awesome:



P.S. I look at some of the posts I made an hour ago and feel embarrassed! =]
 
Lirael said:
P.S. I look at some of the posts I made an hour ago and feel embarrassed! =]
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:D

This is quite true for me too.

I feel embarrassed about many things I post even recently.

It's worse for older posts, I admit. I saw some recently and only then did I notice how far I must have come within a few years, or even within a year. There are some posts that are very cringe-worthy to me now. Some of them hold opinions that I don't have anymore, and others are just plain silly. Then again, I suppose there were different contexts back then that are lost now.

This is the first serious forum I've ever joined. I didn't really get into the whole internet foruming thing until I was about 18, so I was still very new to it all when I joined FFF. As a result, it has been an interesting journey and I have learned much of the human race from it.

One thing that hasn't changed much is the incredible length of my posts. They just seem to go on and on until the end of time. :brooding:
 
Argor251 said:
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This is quite true for me too.

I feel embarrassed about many things I post even recently.

It's worse for older posts, I admit. I saw some recently and only then did I notice how far I must have come within a few years, or even within a year. There are some posts that are very cringe-worthy to me now. Some of them hold opinions that I don't have anymore, and others are just plain silly. Then again, I suppose there were different contexts back then that are lost now.

This is the first serious forum I've ever joined. I didn't really get into the whole internet foruming thing until I was about 18, so I was still very new to it all when I joined FFF. As a result, it has been an interesting journey and I have learned much of the human race from it.

One thing that hasn't changed much is the incredible length of my posts. They just seem to go on and on until the end of time. :brooding:
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Hehe, the last part made me smile. However, I don't think longer posts are bad! They show involvement! :)

I think I've come quite far these past few years, too. I have certainly noticed changes in my perspective. It's to be expected at this age. I think we develop the most between the ages of 16 and 24. School becomes serious, we learn to work harder, then we leave and are thrust into the wider world. If we go to Uni and live away from home, we become more independent. In the third year, we learn what 'hard work' actually means! If we don't go to Uni, we enter the world of work, which provides a whole host of challenges! We learn about people, both good and bad; we learn about money and about being responsible...

Okay, this is going off on a tangent. I suppose I can come back to the topic by using this to explore why we get embarrassed at older posts. Even if we were mature for our age, we were immature in the grand scheme of things. Many teenagers are naive about the topics and issues that make up society: politics, philosophy, economics, ethics, etc. But we learn about them as we grow, and it's around the age of 18, I guess, that we have the time to explore these things as we learn more independently. Consequently, what we say at 16 can seem a bit frivolous at 21.

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Since I've been on this forum for over four years, I can find lots of old posts back from when I just started posting on forums. I was such a noob. I'm probably a bit more over the top about what I say on the internet these days compared to back then. I used to think that it was bad to swear on forums and I even told someone to stop in a thread. (This was on a different forum. The first one I ever joined. FFF is the second.) The guy didn't even swear that badly, and I probably swear more than that guy ever did now.
 
Lirael said:
P.S. I look at some of the posts I made an hour ago and feel embarrassed! =]
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Hahaha I was going to write exactly that!!

I hate looking back on my old posts :| I am such a dork and think I am so funny and great and then I read back and I am like :damon: wtf made me want to say that??

Unfortunately my old forum, the one I first joined ever no longer exists but I can imagine that if I went back and was able to re-read some of the shite I said back then I would probably want to bury myself alive and drown in dirt.
 
sometimes

i feel like a real asshat when i come by them haha
 
On this forum alone there are some posts that I'm less than proud of. Everyone who posts on the internet has said things they regretted later. Seeing an old post is like looking at your past self.
 
Well considering I used to be sort of an arrogant twat about my debates, so yes.. every now and again. Take in mind this is my first forum that I've stuck around beyond a few months. If I saw a person railing on someone I would immediately, put a foot down, despite never being a mod. Sort of pseudo modding.. though not entirely. I had a few bouts with old members, but to be honest they turned out to be trolls and are no longer with us.

I actually use to be quite a bit more friendly active as well. It's easier to be a member than a staffer mind you, because you don't really always have to think about the repercussions of your actions. Though again when I started we had quite the interesting staff with Darkblade and a few others.
 
Ahaha my old posts were a lot happier. I guess it was because I'd never had much access to the internet and when I did I must have gotten excited. I was a lot more cheerful in my posts and I use and still use smileys a lot ^^. The only thing that has changed though is my attitude. I think my time on forums has pretty much changed me to become a bit more mature when posting. I was pretty naive before and would always post what was on my mind, or try to raise some interesting point etc. I was sheltered before so the internet exposure gave me a way to express myself to the "outside world". With this in mind when I read my old posts I can't help but laugh cause I sound so cheesy xD
 
Oh God I just love my old posts on this site.

Ive been looking for that thread I made about Tifa being a big titted whore because of that thread about Rinoa being whiny. Or the thread I made about how awful Final Fantasy 7 was. That's the most embarrassing part to me...I was like anti-fangirling it. :lew:
 
i'd hate to see my really old posts on acf, i was a pillock back then. less so in my early posts on here, but there's a noticable difference now. over the last few years i've become a lot more cynical, i think.
 
I went back to an old forum I joined when I was around 15 a couple of years ago and couldn't believe I actually acted the way I did.

I sounded so immature, yet I always thought I was the same. I never really felt that change from immature little highschool kid to mature adult.

It was really wierd seeing how childish I was. >.<

I remember being obssessed with Tidus and fighting with another girl on this forum. Her name was Tiduslover69 or something and she had joined just before me and so she was all like, 'He's mine!' :rage:

And I'm like, 'No I'm older, he's mine!' :rage:

Shame.
 
Bambi said:
-snorts- Im much the same, and sadly, there are all on this forum for all to see :wacky:
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at least you arent mitsuki :wacky:

wots a perl nekclace :wacky:

ahahahaha that was the best
 
Every now and then I'll go back and find a post on other forums that I've made. It never fails to amaze me on how much of a cunt I was back in the day. There are times I wish I could go back in time and beat the shit out of my younger self.
 
L said:
at least you arent mitsuki :wacky:

wots a perl nekclace :wacky:

ahahahaha that was the best
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...Why do you know about this? :ryan: I'm pretty sure it was mostly between me, Virgil, and Mark. I'd love to see the comic strip again.


This was the first forum I joined, so as expected, there are tons of posts that I'd care not to read again. Fortunately most are buried somewhere deep.
 
I do find old posts by me here sometimes. Usually by using the search feature or just checking really old threads I made. I have been here ages... and when I look back at my old posts, I just feel embarrassed.. or ashamed of myself. There are so many things I regret saying.. but I guess it will not matter. They are buried with the dead. I definitely was a new person around. I was confused, and generally did not know how to type that well. It was sort of hard for me at first to be on here. The old me has died, and is eternally asleep. Whatever I am now, is what I want to be. I remember being overly crazy about stupid things. I remember that I would make short lines for a post. My threads never had variety at first. :lew:
 
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