Have you found Fluther has helped you out?

I have made some friends on here, and the feeling of belonging to a community is lovely…

I did comment on a mate’s status update on facebook giving a different opinion to what they’d said – completely by accident! (I don’t normally offer different opinions on facebook – people don’t expect it on there!) Oops!

@harple I agree with the community aspect, and as for Facebook, since I joined Fluther it has taken a backseat! To the point where, when I do get round to visiting I can only stand to stick around for 5 minutes max!

No. But, Y’all are such nice people.

@ChazMaz Even me?

@lsdh182 same here! I think that’s why I forgot where I was and gave my opinion without thinking!

Fluther is a great place to keep my wits sharp, my knowledge current, and my horizons broad. It has helped me out with specific issues at times as well.

I’ve met a couple people who I’m not sure how I ever managed without.

@janbb – You are the most bestist.

I have made a number of friends on the site. I love the feeling of community and caring.

I have learned a lot.

I’ve made some friends for life on this site. (I met @IBERnineD in Los Angeles last weekend :D)

I find that it’s helped me keep my rambling to a minimum. But the main way it helped me was by getting me through a difficult time when I first joined.

I joined the site on what would have been my father’s 64th birthday. He had passed away 4 years earlier and I still celebrate the day. I was in the middle of Baja providing pro-bono medical service to indigenous communities and was far from family and friends… far from my fiancee. All I had was my laptop and an internet connection.

I stumbled onto fluther and immediately was made to feel at home and found support and insight from a myriad of people from all over. It turned a sad day into a happy one.

The quality of questions may fluctuate and the tone of the site may shift from time to time… but I’m here to stay. I love this place and it means the world to me.

@Dr_C Touching story, I hope it remains a place that is comfortable and happy for you.

It has caused me to sharpen the way I write questions and details, and it has given me new impetus to read carefully and thoroughly.

I have made some friends and am making some more.

@Dr_C Aww, Doc. I’m glad it helped you so much! I had no idea.

In the few months I’ve been here, I have found a few people I chat/talk with regularly and I cannot imagine my life without them. There are others who entertain me immensely. I can enter the chat room and immediately find myself laughing about something. Right now I am going through the hardest thing with my Lola and it’s been a huge help to be able to talk about her as much as I can with a few people (doing so without crying hasn’t been easy). Then there is one special person I am crazy about. Right now (I don’t see this ever changing) we want to talk to each other 24/7 and our days are always better when we receive any type of communication from one another. It’s become a whirlwind romance and I have never experienced such a thing before. He’s helped me smile through being sick and sad over Lola. Fluther is something I started doing because I had writer’s block and I hoped it would bring me out of it. It did and the bonuses from being on this site bring me back daily.

@free_fallin Lola is absolutely gorgeous! I don’t know exactly what is happening with her but if it’s upsetting you so much come talk to me anytime, I’ve recentley lost my dog, Molly. She was a beautiful bullmastiff and unfortunately her womb ruptured and she died during a painful operation. It still kills me thinking about how she went but all of my good times with her make it better. I hope whatever situation you have with lovely Lola resolves soon.

Yes. I went out to dinner, once.