The web forums has helped me (to secure two job interviews) but has also ruined my life.
Nowadays I am addicted to the Internet solely because of web forum discussions.
The first day I joined the web forum was on Aug 30, 2003. It is a Malaysian Chinese online community. And since last year, I become one of the moderator there.
Time has come for me to progressively withdraw from all web forums on the Internet.
1 year time frame is hopefully enough. So far, out of 3 major web forums, the schizophrenia.com has become my primary and favourite web forum. The other one (China-based) is dead (forum closed), and I seldom post on the Malaysian largest Chinese online community.
I see this announcement as one of my motivation to quit all online discussions. Presumably today next year will be my last day.
I had quitted several others technical forum discussions like MSFN, Channel 9 (MSDN) and newsgroups.