What other sites or forums do you visit daily?

SoberSteve · MIP Old Timer

What other sites or forums do you visit daily?

Lexie · Senior Member

I belong to a Yahoo group consisting of people from my old moderation support group who have decided that moderate drinking doesn't work for them. Some are sober in AA, some are sober through other support methods. We sort of act as a "welcoming committee" for people who are feeling like "failures" because they couldn't successfully moderate. Kind of helping with the shifting of gears that accompanies a change in goals. A lot of those people are very much like me--they were sometimes able to moderate for varying lengths of time, but over time the destructive drinking was continuing and often getting worse. That's an email group, though, so I don't have to "visit" it.

I also hang out at SoberRecovery, which is sort of a collection of forums for various recovery-related topics. There are AA and non-AA forums on alcoholism, forums for substance abusers, forums for friends and family, etc.

happycamper · MIP Old Timer

I am a member of about 6 diff AA internet groups.

This one I visit and participate in the most.

In the summer months I dont have alot of time to get to all of them. In the winter, Im on the internet alot !!

SoberSteve · MIP Old Timer

What other ones ?^^^

Aquaman · MIP Old Timer

huh...I tried to post a bunch of links...but I'm guessing that links are against the Forum rules. Oh well. Accept. I look daily at stuff that a) makes me think outside myself and b) makes me laugh.
Just google this stuff.

Spirtual -
Hazelden's daily readings (online)
Lao Tzu - The Tao Teh Ching (online)
Sun Tzu - The Art of War (online)

Funny -
cheezburger dot com (site menu)
shitmydadsays dot com
shitmykidsruined dot com
comedycentral dot com
stuffwhitepeoplelike dot com
bestmugshotever dot com

Oh yeah...thanks for getting rid of that other avatar. That $hit was getting maudlin. You look good now.

Peace,
Rob

SoberSteve · MIP Old Timer

Thanks Rob :)

barisax · Senior Member

Interesting topic. I want to retain some degree of anonymity so I can't really be specific, but around the time I first got sober, I also got my first PC. Well not my first, but the first for my own use and not just a game machine, or for work. I got involved in on-line stuff before there was a world wide web and the internet was something known only to colleges and government/military workers. Back then we had dial-up bulletin boards that were privately run out of people's houses, Genie and Compuserve. Prodigy and AOL were latecomers to that scene but predated the "internet" by a few years.

I spent a lot of my former drinking time exchanging emails and board postings on line, and didn't even discover any AA related boards for several years. Those I found had membership numbering in the 2-digits and often active participation in the single digits. But even though I wasn't drinking, I reverted to the night owl I had been even before I took my first drink. I now have friends all over the world, some I've been able to meet... occasionally I've traveled to them, but mostly I've met them at various group events where we shared a common interest. Although I haven't done so (other than Canada), there are at least a dozen countries I could visit and I'd have a friend waiting there to show me around if not a place to stay. Pretty cool.

It's also ironic that I was never a social drinker. I didn't drink in bars because it was too expensive, I really wasn't good at picking up girls, and it just seemed like a way to get into trouble... a fight, a DUI... any of those things might cause people to think I was an alcoholic, so I avoided bars... LOL. So newly sober, I sat at home in the same chair that I did my drinking in, and emailed and chatted on line and became a "social sober", in addition to the many friends I gained from F2F meetings. The element of social pressure to drink, or hanging around with my drinking friends, was a non-issue since at the time I got sober, I really didn't have any friends. That has changed dramatically, and the change happened pretty quickly. I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had gotten sober when I did, but there was no internet or forums or bulletin boards for me to chat on. I probably would have just stayed out all night with my AA friends, which would have gotten me divorced even sooner than I did... LOL.

Barisax