Do you ever look back at your old comments/submissions?
Do you ever look back at old stories, polls and/or comments of yours for old times' sake?
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dom180
Sometimes I'll read back nice replies to me from days of old for an ego-boost if I'm feeling down :P I don't suppose there's a way to look back at old profiles, and I never saved mine; I just wrote them straight into the box and updated them without copying them into Word to save them or anything. There's something oddly more inspiring about the blankness of the IIN page, the emotionless font than using a word processor. I'm going off on a tangent again =S
I tend to think of my old comments as highly pretentious and snobbish when I stumble across them. I go through occasional phases where I dumb myself down just slightly in the hope of not cringing at my own old comments, but I don't usually even post those ones :P
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dappled
I have been doing over the past couple of days because I've been aware that my two year anniversary is very soon. It's either today or tomorrow. I'll guess I'll spot it when I hover my name somewhere. It was still 1 year 11 months this morning but I think I signed up at about 9pm so maybe it's calculated down to the minute.
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dappled
And it's 1 year 12 months now. I'm guess it means that, apart from a few hours, I've been here two years.
I read through a lot of my old profiles last night with the idea of posting a few of them. Some of them are bloody awful but there were some okay ones. And some of them make me realise how annoying I can be. It was weird seeing them from fresh almost.
Same with comments. Although I did today find a comment I made a year and a bit ago that made me laugh. It's rare I run into my old comments but they're out there, all over the place. I should make the effort to read some of them. Particularly because they'll be on posts with old users who I miss.
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bananaface
I hope this doesn't sound creepy or anything, but I can remember quite a few of your profiles. It's not intentional, if someone posts a new profile or picture I usually don't forget it (although there's one user who is a complete exception to that, and I have no idea why). And I don't think I've ever read one of your profiles and thought it was "annoying".
Anyway, I remember one you did which revolved around the number "ten", pretty well actually. I'm fairly sure it was one of your profiles, wasn't it?:S Either way, I liked that one very much.:)
Oh, and happy two year IINiversary!:D Woohoo.
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dappled
Wow, you have some memory on you. :P I found the "ten" profile last night. It was written in honour of October, the tenth month, which means it's nearly a year old. I'm not even sure I would have remembered it, and I was the one who wrote it.
I actually really liked it still. If I do undertake this crazy attention-seeking repetition of old profiles, I'm happy to post that one. Not sure I will yet, though. :)
I found five profiles I never posted as well, including one for Frosties that I put so much love into. Aww, poor Frosties. I feel like he died so that I could be reborn. :)
P.S. Two years! Yay! There'll be cake in the closet tonight. And in another three years, the closet will contain David Bowie who will be singing "Five Years" to you and I. And then he'll have to come back in four months and do it all again because that'll be your "five years". Double David! :D
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bananaface
Ha, yeah, I just have a weird memory for some things. I wasn't sure whether to bring the profile thing up or not because it makes me sound sort of creepy. I do remember quite a bit about the "ten" profile, though. I didn't want to go into specifics though, because then I'd probably sound crazyD:. And I remember a few other of your profiles. It's not just you by the way, I remember loads of the profiles I've read. People here probably think I keep files on them or something.:/
And I don't think it's attention-seeking. Although I might just think that because I have no idea why anyone would re-post old profiles. To be honest I wish I could forget all of mine. They're all awful, and one in particular was *very* cringey. Anyway, I wouldn't have thought you were doing it for attention:). It would be cool if you did re-post, then I'd be able to compare to my memory and see how close I got. I like stuff like that. Either way, it's all good:)!
Double David Bowie?! Woohoo! Aww, I wonder if either of us will actually stick around that long.
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dappled
Aww, it's not creepy to remember something. When Shuggy was talking about MissSorel, I thought about something she said well over a year ago (about burping when drinking a fizzy drink) and it just made me smile. I think she'd like to be remembered, even for stuff like that.
The reposting of old profiles was just because most people here won't have ever seen them, having not been around long enough and it's also a lazy way for me to have a "new" profile without doing any work. ;)
If I don't repost, I'll still send you the ten one privately, if you want.
And I'd stay around another three years if it meant really meeting David Bowie but otherwise... hmm... we'll see!
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howaminotmyself
You save your profiles?
And why do I have the urge to say something slightly snarky? :P
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dappled
I don't save them for the sake of saving them. My broadband is so bad that I have to write everything in local text files (otherwise my internet cuts out and I lose them while I'm typing them).
Snark away, but before you start, allow me to point you in the direction of my broadband provider because they damn well deserve your snark. :P
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howaminotmyself
Well that's a logical response. Although I still picture you being anal and backing up every comment you've ever written.
And what did your broadband do to me? I try to reserve my snarks for the most special of cases. :P
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dappled
lol, I probably was that anal once but, nah, so many of my comments here are deleted by the OP, I can't afford to be precious. Most of the profiles I found were stuff that was half-completed and then never posted. The only reason I kept them is because I never bothered deleting them. :P
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Shackleford96
Holy crap, you actually remember what TIME you signed up with IIN? That is incredible.
Oh, and Happy IIN birthday too :)
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dappled
It's just the way my mind works. It's very easy for me to remember stuff like this and I always forget that most people don't.
Another weird one is that when someone responds to a post I wrote 18 months ago, I remember where I was sitting when I originally posted it, and how I felt.
I am so hopeless on some things, though, that people think I'm putting it on. :/
P.S. Thank you! :)
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Ibelievethis
Yeah I do, quite a lot actually. Mainly for old time sakes and to if I have had any replies. I also like reading other people's points of view. xx
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nAt2017
Not comments, but certainly submissions. Mostly the polls, to see if the statistics have shifted.
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Glass
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Comments? I've never looked back on any of them.
As for submissions, I don't post submissions anymore, and whenever I did I always deleted them after a short while. They just seemed like paragraphs of stupid whenever I looked at them again, nothing worth reminding myself of.Comment Hidden ( show ) -
[Old Memory]
Occasionally. The other day I was going through my comments and saw this one-
http://isitnormal.com/story/indecisive-commenter-93324/
And I happened to glance this one just today and chuckled-
http://isitnormal.com/poll/do-u-believe-in-ailensabductions-110917/
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Shackleford96
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NeuroNeptunian
No.
I had the realization about a year ago that my style of speech and general persona when speaking has not changed over the years. My friends and I (before the days of texting) had a composition book that we passed off between classes where we wrote notes, had fights and chats, drew pictures etc. with nicknames and all.
Last year, I visited an old friend and she showed me the series of "black books" (that's what we called them, my nickname was Robyn) and the passages that I wrote, albeit not as properly spelled, depicted myself as the way I am right now. My style of speech was almost exactly as it is now, my manner of thinking was the same.
Maybe what I said was different six months ago due to lack of experience or insight, but the manner in which I said it and the thought behind it is the same as it was practically when I was 12. It's kind of sad that I haven't changed much, huh?
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bristexai
Why would I? I only comment if I have something to say. I'm not on here for attention.
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disthing
Why would looking back at your old comments or submissions mean you're looking for attention?
It's like looking back at a diary you kept when you were 12 or something. I find it interesting sometimes to look back and remind myself of the conversations I've had here, the debates, the comments I've responded to, see whether or not my opinion or way of expressing myself has changed. It's driven by curiosity and nostalgia.
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bananaface
Strangely, I've just been reading some of my older posts. And I avoid my old comments because they make me cringe and I don't like reading them at all. Whenever I come across one I tend to delete it.
Recently I've been reading some older posts, which aren't my own. I never used to do it but now I prefer it. At the moment, I feel like I'm sort of observing rather than taking part in the community, I'm a bit detached right now, I guess. So, I've been reading more than commenting. Although, I don't really read that much either. Oh well, this has happened before, it'll probably end the same way as it did last time.
So, the answer is yes, I do. I also re-read posts that I've favourited.:)
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