Curiosity..How much time do you spend watching and talking about BB?
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Curiosity..How much time do you spend watching and talking about BB?
Jade888 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 06:32 pm  Out of curisosity...how much time do people spend on watching and communicating about Big Brother? |
Max | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 06:40 pm  WAAAYYY too much time!! LOL Here's my day. Get up in the morning and get ready for work. Stop at the computer, check email, check live feed updates, check discussion board to see if anything interesting has happened. (I have a DSL connection.) Go to work. Fire up the computer. Fire up the live feeds, fire up the browser, check the boards. Do some work. Check the boards. Post messages as the spirit moves me. Lather, rinse, repeat. Oh, wait, wrong instructions! End of the day, head home. Get the mail, pet the cat, go upstairs. Fire up the live feeds. Check email, check the boards. Post as the spirit moves me. Maybe follow the live feeds and post for a while if something interesting is going on. Do this until around 11:00, with pauses to watch the TV show (mute the live feeds during the show) and/or Survivor. Head for bed. Get up the next morning and repeat! Hmmm... does this qualify my addiction as a disease with coverage for treatment under my medical plan? LOL Fortunately, I have a job that involves the internet and I have my own office with a real door! |
Jade888 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 06:51 pm  No it doesn't...but I hope no one suffers with PTSD or Post Traumatic Stree Disorder when BB is done. I am curious about the work habits and watching the shows at work. Aloha |
Gail | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 06:56 pm  Max, you got me way beat! I can't access the BBFanClub Board or the Live feeds at work because of restrictions, etc. But, I get up at 4:30 am (always got up that early) and sign on to check live feed news, live feeds, posts, messages, etc - post if I can to live feeds, go to work and talk about BB to all who are interested (and even some who aren't ) ). Leave work, walk in the house and turn on the computer, then pet my three dogs and let them out and stay on line with BB Board/Live feeds til about 10 pm Mountain time. I tape survivor and watch BB online. |
Jade888 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 07:27 pm  Max: Your company is not monitoring internet use yet? Many large companies are now monitoring the work over the computer by their employees...that is why I am asking as my husband now has a patient who can not leave the computer for Big Brother...she is hooked. |
Reader2 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 07:41 pm  I will confess...WAY too much time!! 3 times a day!! It seems a nice diversion, since I have NO life, and school hasnt started yet...and I'm trying to recover from pnemonia, cant do anything!! So I have someone elses lives to obsess with!! Cant wait for school to begin!! (PS I hated the ending to survivor! But thats just me, she's too young, but sheesh! sorry, i'm beter now!!) |
Jade888 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 07:43 pm  Reader 2 can you go to the survivor board and tell us play by play what happend tonight on Survivor? |
Max | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 07:46 pm  Jade, My company loosly monitors internet access. They block porno sites, but that's all right now. Actually, we make the tools to do this, so we do use them, they just aren't Nazis about it. The only way it becomes a problem is if you're not getting your job done. Since I work in communications on an internal website, and I grew up doing homework in front of the TV, it's pretty easy for me to multitask in about 3 or 4 different directions. Anyway, I haven't had any problems from it. My boss knows I do it. He's a BB addict by proxy 'cause he doesn't watch the show, but he asks me about what is going on. |
Jade888 | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 07:50 pm  My husband and sister are monitring all of this because they suspect that individuals may have withdrawl symptoms from the show when it ends...can you believe that? Are they having another BB seriers after this like Survivor? |
Columbus | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 09:11 pm  i was watching the live feeds about 4 or 5 hours a day until the dance marathon started and i personally find it boring. i also find that i can get through the live feed boards faster because a lot of the talk is singing and talking about songs. i do spend an hour or 2 everday read- ing the message boards. you guys are great with both your comments and postings! |
Bbfanatic | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 09:44 pm  I spend too much time. I am finding that i am enjoying this website less and less, although i am not bored with bb. i doubt at this time i will quit coming here, but here are the reasons i tend to stay away more. i know when i go to the discussion boards that many are following bb's lead with who they will hate this week. that is what is suppose to happen. bb not only controls the hg but also the viewers. (dont waste time trying to change my mind on that) i get what i expect while on the discussion boards. the live feed posts were great, but whenever i can be reading what is happening currently in the bb house and tell if the person writing the post likes or dislikes the particular hg from the many editorials, then i find myself forgetting i am on live feeds and not the discussion boards. i love to come to my own conclusions from reading the live posts. examples of some editorials are; jamie checking her makeup AGAIN! or george trying to get attention AGAIN! i could read the live feed posts quicker if it wasnt for the personal opinions on the hg and i would enjoy this website again. |
Spaga | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 09:49 pm  I'm too ashamed to admit how much I view BB and read posts. It's all so interesting and I learn a few things. Big Brother came along and interrupted my hobby of reading best-sellers, so this will help at withdrawal time. lol I heard somewhere that another network will be starting a show like this one in January, 2001. What times I get too involved and angry, and BB gets on my nerves I take a break and read. Right now I'm reading a new best-seller THE TERRIBLE HOURS by Peter Maas about the SQUALUS. |
Max | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 10:40 pm  ABC will be starting with "The Mole" at some point (they are still getting audition tapes). Survivor II is supposed to start in January. There are a variety of other "reality" shows in the works. All of us addicts will have plenty to keep us occupied! |
Teecee | Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - 11:22 pm  Bbfanatic: I understand your point about too many editorials, but it is very hard to be writing these updates and not injecting a little bit of opinion into them. Maybe some ppl take it a bit overboard...but nobody leaves out ed. comments entirely. |
Bbfanatic | Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 10:41 am  teecee what i am talking about is the ones who take it a bit overboard. with some of them i believe i am reading what happened but find out it is an editorial. it just waste my time. some write very obvious opinions. i say leave them out. it doesnt matter to me if the writer of the post thinks george or eddie did something "to hurt the other person" i can come to my own conclusion. discussion boards are for opinions. thanks |
Max | Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 10:47 am  Bbfanatic, I agree there are some live feed posters who get carried away. It's a hard job not to sometimes. There are a couple of folks who do that on a regular basis and I usually just skim past their posts. The moderators are trying to stay on top of things and move or delete posts from that area that are blatant commentary and not just reporting, but it's an arduous task. Bottom line is I love and depend on those live feeds to keep my addiction going strong. and I know it's all done on a volunteer basis (including the moderating), so I try to be flexible. If you see something in there, or anywhere else, that's blatantly spam or out of whack with what SHOULD be there, report it on the Bugs, Suggestions and Feedback area. The moderators have been pretty good about responding quickly to that kind of thing. Hope that helps. Hang in there, fellow addict!  |
Eddieluver | Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 10:55 am  Let's see here well I look at it once in a while at work like on breaks and at lunch if I get the chance. I LOVE to comment on the boards like you guys don't know that by now? I don't watch the live feeds or actully I watch them hardly at all. I watched them at my mom's house a little when I couldn't sleep because she has a DSL connection. I would say some days I spend about two hours and others up to four maybe? These last two days I have been commenting left and right but that's because for about a week before that I didn't comment hardly at all? I had to catch up! *laughs* |
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