I totally agree and I think anyone with some experience of these kind of forums knows what to expect by now...
They can be used as a good source of knowledge at times, and can pass the time away chatting and generally 'shooting the shit' with other people with not much else to do... but I think it would be very, very rare someone would actually make a true life friend on forums such as, but not particularly, FST...
Acquaintances yeah... I've made loads myself, but no-one who would affect me should they decide never to 'log on' again...
Having said that though, two members in particular have been generous to me on FST, and in return I have done what I could to repay their trust. One I enquired about myself, and the other came totally unexpectedly.
The thread started here:
https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bit...-a-time-332685
sounded really familiar actually... as though I had read it before, and had to check to see if it was one I had actually posted in... I can't be bothered going through my previous posts to find it, but I thought it looked familiar![]()
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