Naming no names, however ........

[WillyWanka]

...... I'm the quiet observer type but feel compelled to say or ask the following.

In relatively recent times I've watched more than one of our fair ladies follow a trend of opening up their whole lives on this site. By that I mean posting a blow by blow account of their daily life's experiences, uploading pictures of themselves in off duty scenarios and generally almost using the E-I forums as their own personal diary.

It stirs something uncomfortable up inside me. I'm sorry for being blunt but to me, this site is a means by which men can connect with women who are both willing to enter into a transaction and then walk away. What I appear to be witnessing though is a step or two beyond that whereby things almost go beyond a transaction towards an opening up of personal relationships that have apparently come about between some boys and the girls on this site. Please - don't ask me to give examples at this point because if I had the time I could give tens of them and I think any regular poster on here knows what I'm talking about.

So what's happening ? Where are we going ? Are we to take it that this site has become pretty much a public text message service between people who have struck up some sort of "relationship" with each other and they're proud of it ? People talking in code with a wink and a nudge to each other and a mildly veiled implication that in the background there is more than meets the eye going on between people ?

I've been reading these boards since they were invented. And I've only got one thing to say about more recent developments:



Things just aren't like they used to be. And there was nothing wrong with things as they used to be.