it seems pretty common to lurk around in a new to you forum for a little bit before you sign up… I think I lurked for a day or so reading diff threads and silently judging how nice the community was to see if it was the right thing to sign up… im glad I did this place is great…
anyway how long did you lurk before you signed up?
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For like two weeks, I kept coming back to the forum because I found that there were posts that were helping me! Lil lurkers 
what made you lurk instead of signing up for 2 weeks? and that’s how it got me too everytime I scrolled down I found a new thread I had to read… that and the wonderful people…
Just because it was a forum for schizophrenia, and I’m diagnosed with Psychosis, but then I realised the forum was for psychosis aswell! Every time I’d google my delusions, it would lead me here so eventually I decided i wanted to join and post my first thread! 
I didn’t lurk much at all. Just jumped right in!
i didn’t lurk. i just jumped in.
i’m hesitant in real-life, but not as hesitant online.
Count me in with the non-lurkers. I was in the middle of a rough patch, so I googled “sccizophrenia help” and this site popped up. I immediately signed up and started bombarding the forum with questions.
I should have made this a poll… with two choices … lurker or non lurker… I would have guessed you just jumped in lol
hey can you edit your post to be up top? ive never seen a mod do it and you don’t have to but I was just wondering…
How does that work for you?
hmm… that’s cheap… now it looks like I know how to make polls… lol… @Ninjastar created the poll I have yet to remember how to harness this power…
I really don’t remember what I did, so I put “a few days.”
It was 2004 when I found this site, had been Dx’d in 1997, but found little on the web for information, (nothing beyond the dry clinical "Merk manual), so I read it for a few hours, (think dial-up days), and then begged my “CF” (ex) to see if I could join.
He gave it some thought- for too long naturally for me, then said ok. It took until the next day before I could get back on the computer because I ‘used up’ all the allotted minutes that night, did I lose a few of ya?
It was like coming home for me…a place where there were others were like me- or maybe I was like them, either way, It finally felt like somewhere I belonged…so I jumped in with both feet and never looked back.
haha would the dial up days be the stone age of the internet? kids are spoiled now… I think they should have to use dial up till they turn 20 so they don’t take how quick it is now for granted… if you wanted to even view a large picture you could click it and then go bake a potato using an easy bake oven and it might be loaded all the way afterwards…lol
I lurked for about a week before signing up. found a lot of post that were very helpful
Like @spiderpig when I was doing research for my concerns google always lead me to here, so I started to find this site some interesting and I felt so identified with some people, and I’m glad google lead me to here because since I’m here my suicidal thoughts have decrease a lot, and that is a good thing. Can’t pass a day without me visiting this forum! 
The picture didn’t even have to be that large. 
I’d like to see the young 'uns these days try to navigate the oldie computers?
I would think they’d teach about the fossils in computer class, like doing basic computer programming on a TRS 80, or use a CPM computer to teach themselves dBASE.
No?
I came here from the old site so I jumped right in.
lol i remember having to use dos and learn all the commands to navigate and play games… lol @ those 22" floppy disks that held like 14 bytes… not mb not gb just b… now i have to use a dos emulator to play old games… so idk if you can actually get to the true dos any more… that dos prompt does not count…
how…what… how did they transfer info before those stupid giant floppy disks? did they just not and whatever the comp came with was it? wait I remember following a booklet to code my own crappy version of pong…it took like 14 hours…and I instantly was disappointed… so you had to write it yourself that sucks…
I stalk people on Facebook…its a problem I have