edscissors's blog

I have favourites all over the place and when one checks in it's remarkable how often the exciting "ping" sounds and the pop-up (actually, of course, more a "slide-down") announces that a potential friend is online. (Ah, hello, SB - I see you've just logged on!)

Interesting, too, to see at what time people log on, write messages. I have MF friends in the USA (I'm UK - ah, hello, G****, just logged on!) and, though they are 5 or 6 hours behind me, they seem sometimes to pick up and respond to messages at 1 or 2 a.m. (their time). But I also confess that if I wake in the small hours, maybe hoping for a message from someone where it is only 9 p.m., I do sometimes log on ... and even reply at 2 a.m.!

So: is this site addictive?

Possibly. But not in a bad way: it is just a really nice, good place to be ... and maybe this is why MF members tend to check in so frequently, at all hours of the day or night. ADMIN has sometimes (very galantly) urged us not to "diss" certain other sites in our appreciation of MF. I respect ADMIN very much so will only say that I think our site is a model of clarity and design, generosity of spirit, full functionality and that it seems, therefore, by and large, to have attracted some fine, very decent and honorable people into membership.