How has poetry helped/ changed/ affected you

[Rose Love]

We're mostly all merry misanthropes here

I find people tend to suck less if they're imaginary pixels in your head...

Hmmm...I suppose I'm a misanthrope...I don't know about merry...

For me, this forum has to replace the worst online social life ever, consisting primarily of years and years of one guy after another (or several at the same time) trying to do to me whatever it is girls online let guys do to them, plus lots of fights and friction between me and people from a personal development site I was on. I got so disgusted I just finally abandoned all social sites and all instant messaging programs. I wanted to slap a guy in the face every time he asked "Why??" when I said no to webcams or to anything else he wanted that I didn't want. I find them actually much more infuriating the way they are online as pixels than in real life.