New-FTers, addicted?
May 1, 2005 | 6:29 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SFO
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Yes, totally addicted and totally new. The first time I found this site I spent 4 or 5 hours going over very old posts. It was awsome! My regret is that I have been a high miler for 20 years, but just discovered FT this year.
May 2, 2005 | 7:05 am
#19
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 355
I was watching that show "Intervention" on A&E last night and there was a guy addicted to video games and the first thing that entered my mind was this thread!!!
If someone can be that addicted to video games and have to go thru intervention and rehab-I know there are some FTs that probably need to go for this website!
If someone can be that addicted to video games and have to go thru intervention and rehab-I know there are some FTs that probably need to go for this website!
May 2, 2005 | 7:14 am
#20
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Posts: 2,415
I definitely am addicted to FT. I check the KLM and LH fora everyday. Sometimes I even check another time in the evening just to make sure Im not missing any great offers from the Mileage Run forum. Ive been reading the same fora for quite a while and that made me wonder how on earth is it possible that some of you here have thousands of posts? Well, the reason seems to be that you also write into these community and OMNI pages, which have been almost ignored by me. Maybe Ill start writing here as well.
May 2, 2005 | 11:40 am
#21
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Originally Posted by TakeMeToEZE
I'm so glad I don't know how to do that, otherwise I'd have to block it, too. Here I am reading FT instead of studying for my Education Law final exam. The book is open, the highlighter is between my teeth... but FT has me in its clutches and won't let me go. (Yes, that's it, I'll place the blame elsewhere. It's FT's fault!) 
May 2, 2005 | 7:40 pm
#22
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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I still get by on self-discipline. This weekend, my network was down for two days, it was actually nice not feel addicted for a while. I got some well needed rest.
May 3, 2005 | 5:01 am
#23
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: TPA
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I feel the same way as the OP; having found FT only recently, I have found myself checking it often. In addition, with automatic email notification, I notice a lot more responses to threads that I have posted on popping up on my Blackberry--not close to the number of regular emails that I get, but certainly enough to make me realize I am spending a lot of time posting!
Funny how you feel like you "know" people already, just by the tone and content of their posts.
I guess it is true what they say, birds of a feather....fly together...
Funny how you feel like you "know" people already, just by the tone and content of their posts.
I guess it is true what they say, birds of a feather....fly together...
May 3, 2005 | 5:15 am
#24
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meducate writes:
It is interesting, isn't it. Over the past seven years on FT, I have met, in real life, literally hundreds of FlyerTalkers--some of whom have become very dear friends. They always turn out to be pretty much exactly like I had envisioned they would be.
Somehow meeting "on line" breaks down some barriers and creates greater intimacy than meeting in real life. Odd, but true.
This year, thanks to FT, we will be visiting two new countries--Australia and Israel. Last year it was Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and Hong Kong. Little by little, out FlyerTalk friends tempt us to explore more and more of this big blue marble.
Funny how you feel like you "know" people already, just by the tone and content of their posts.
Somehow meeting "on line" breaks down some barriers and creates greater intimacy than meeting in real life. Odd, but true.
This year, thanks to FT, we will be visiting two new countries--Australia and Israel. Last year it was Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and Hong Kong. Little by little, out FlyerTalk friends tempt us to explore more and more of this big blue marble.
May 3, 2005 | 5:20 am
#25
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by Punki
meducate writes:
It is interesting, isn't it. Over the past seven years on FT, I have met, in real life, literally hundreds of FlyerTalkers--some of whom have become very dear friends. They always turn out to be pretty much exactly like I had envisioned they would be.
It is interesting, isn't it. Over the past seven years on FT, I have met, in real life, literally hundreds of FlyerTalkers--some of whom have become very dear friends. They always turn out to be pretty much exactly like I had envisioned they would be.
May 3, 2005 | 5:26 am
#26
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 355
[QUOTE=TakeMeToEZE] Here I am reading FT instead of studying for my Education Law final exam. [/QUOTE
I really didnt realize "how" bad it was until someone asked to borrow some of my lecture notes for our history final.
The lady that borrowed them came back and asked what do my abbreviations as ORD, LAX, ISP, etc etc meant....and it didn't help I had thrown in med term abbreviations!!
I really didnt realize "how" bad it was until someone asked to borrow some of my lecture notes for our history final.
The lady that borrowed them came back and asked what do my abbreviations as ORD, LAX, ISP, etc etc meant....and it didn't help I had thrown in med term abbreviations!!
May 3, 2005 | 5:53 am
#27
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Originally Posted by Shiloh
The lady that borrowed them came back and asked what do my abbreviations as ORD, LAX, ISP, etc etc meant....and it didn't help I had thrown in med term abbreviations!!
May 3, 2005 | 6:02 am
#28
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Originally Posted by meducate
Interestingly, I had the opportunity to meet a few FTers for the first time, and although I had no pre-conceived notions, they turned out to be just terrific! ...
(We thought you were terrific too -- come back to Cgo soon!)
May 3, 2005 | 6:08 am
#29
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Originally Posted by cawhite60156
Was it the lobster, or was it Bonnie Hunt? (We thought you were terrific too -- come back to Cgo soon!)
(We thought you were terrific too -- come back to Cgo soon!)
I'll be in Chicago briefly in 2 weeks, for one night...but all tied up until very late....
May 3, 2005 | 6:48 am
#30
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Originally Posted by meducate
but all tied up until very late....
Depending on how work is going, I sometimes check FT hourly. Especially if I have a lot of conference calls where reading FT helps keep me from falling asleep.