Given the online tensions I have experienced this year, I decided to run a Yahoo Search on my user name and see what it brought up. The results were good. My homepage ... my blogs ... various places I have posted comments, etc.
Then I got the "brilliant" idea to run a Yahoo Search on Winefairie. And that's where I found the inner circle of people who led to the downfall of Fool's Paradise.
Mind you, this "SparkPeople" group of "Lost Fools" .... as they called themselves (then they got angry if anyone else called them that) .... doesn't seem to have been very active since January of 2007 .... but it is the membership which is very telling. And I am not saying that Winefairie started this "SparkPeople" group ... in fact, it looks more like Q-Ball was the ring-leader there ... it was just my Yahoo Search for Winefaire which brought it up.
Now I know who the elite inner circle was. And who the rejected outcasts were. It is the middleschool lunch table thing all over again.
Now .... maybe some of the missing ladies were invited, but decided not to join? That is possible. Where is RH? Nunnie?? T4? Sparkle? LindaS? Sweeney?????? Belly? Sunshine? Looney? Knitnurse? Purpleangel? Skater? Sailor? Me?? Bree? Lilaz?
Or are these the people who made Fool's Paradise "No Fun" anymore and the reason Cat and WF and Caterry and Q-Ball stopped posting. Gilly and Do continued to play everywhere and tried to maintain friendships .... Swillow hadn't been around for quite awhile. Not sure why she left FP in the first place. And Sizz was playing both ends, it seems.
Well .... seeing all these faces and names of people who were once very dear to me made me sad and angry and a whole bunch of other emotions .... I do see that the group didn't seem to stay active for very long .... maybe they found somewhere else to go? Maybe Q-Ball did set up a message board and they are there?
But suffice to say that I wasn't invited to any of it. It appears I am among good company of un-invitees .... but still ..... pfffffffttttttt ....
And here I am thinking about trying to start a community in iVillage where ALL the old Fewls would feel welcome .... although there would be 2 Rules which all would have to follow ....
Rule #1 ..... BE NICE.
Rule #2 .... See Rule #1.
Welll ..... I am still going to attempt to start a community in iVillage. And if I can get it approved, I am still going to invite all people from SBDO-FP to join me there. Everyone will be welcome .... but the 2 Rules must be followed.
A full one-year membership to iVillage which blocks ads and pop-ups and allows full access to the Message Boards and all they offer is less than $40 a year. SBDO costs between $84-240 a year, depending on when you joined!! iVillage offers Diet and Health boards along with about a zillion other boards .... (phew ... the Love & Sex Boards have some real eye-opening topics!! Yikes!!) .... I have spent several months on these boards trying to get a feel for how they work ... meeting people .... visiting communities ... finding friends .... etc. When I opened a thread there several months ago about relocating Fewl's Paradise, I basically barged into someone's home and set up a camp in their living room!! I didn't realize at the time that is what I did .... but now I know that is what I did!! I apologize to members of the Laugh Yoursef Well/Coffee Shop Chatter Community!!!
When and if I do set up a community, it won't be in the diet and health area anyway! Although I do really like the titles of some of their communites!
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