Lonely in maine, suggest you start your own thread so we can respond to your sitch. Welcome aboard.


Regarding craziness: Between the internet and reality TV, don't y'all think that we are exposed to the interior, uncensored workings of other people's private lives in a way that couldn't happen in the past?

Before the internet, whose internal private life did you really know anything about? You imagined what went on "behind closed doors" in other people's houses, but did you really know? There was that column in Ladies Home Journal "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" (it ALWAYS was saved), which gave a little insight, but even that was edited and cleaned up.

Now, with BBs like this where people post intimate stuff, and dating sites where you can email strangers, and reality TV (including the Osbournes) where the camera reveals everything, we know a WHOLE lot more about people's private lives, unedited and uncensored, than anyone ever did before.

Thus our conclusion that people are crazy. And I agree with Fran, we/they are.


P.S. In 1973, PBS ran a 12-week documentary of "The Loud Family," probably the first reality tv show. The family was filmed in their home going about their daily lives. I never watched it, and frankly, I still don't care for reality tv (except "Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares" ahem ;\) ). Read about it here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211195/

and here

http://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/american/