<p>Anime boards.. Roller coaster boards... Sports boards... occasionally a music board... weather boards... video game boards... :)</p>
<p>I find boards to be both fun and an invaluable source of information on any subject I'm interested in. Since being a Dad is my most important job right now, most of the boards I either post or lurk on have to do with things my kids are involved in or affected by - mostly their sports (baseball, wrestling & soccer), and things that come up in their lives (auto repair) but I also allow myself a peak at things I might want to start in on once this "job" gets less intense - boat building, electric car conversion, pinball machines, whatever. I love the internet. Information is everywhere. It's like a smorgasbord. But I never spend any time on boards related to my "day job" - you know, the one I earn money doing.</p>
<p>I duck into a board dedicated to UCLA athletics at least once a day...it's my "home" page for one of my browsers. </p>
<p>There's also a fiction writer's board that is the successor to the now-defunct Genie, which was a marvelous community the likes of which I never expect to see again. The current board (Dueling Modems) is very small but is very intimate. Even people who don't like each other are on a first name basis with each other and only a fraction of the conversation is about writing. The rest of the stuff is like when adults get together to talk anywhere...kids, cost of roof repairs, worries about kids, politics, music, theater, kids being off to school, cars, telescopes, jobs, careers, kids....
DM, like Genie before it, requires a password to get to and it doesn't have the same sense of posting to the whole world anonymously. It terms of format and technology, it predates both blogs and message boards but has aspects of each. In the Writer's forum, there are sub-forums for each writer who has one and you can have as many threads as you want in your sub-forum. The whole process of D going to college prompted one called Department of Firsts and Lasts in mine, for example. If I seem nostalgic and sentimental about Genie/DM, it's because it's a community that I've been apart of for about 15 years, a good fraction of a generation as I measure things.</p>
<p>I've got to say that some aspects of CC strike me as similar but it's different because even three years marks you as an "very old timer" and most people are going to be fairly transient, though I note we are building up a core of people who are here either before or after they really "need" to be...I once likened CC to the "brides" magazines...something of intense importance for a transient period for most people.</p>
<p>This is the only board I visit or post on. The subject of college admissions was so intriguing last year when my younger child was applying to college that I have not broken free yet.</p>
<p>I used to be real active on homeschooling "boards"--I still am active on a local homeschooling support email list. I'm also active on gifted parenting boards and email lists and on math problem-solving or math education fora. </p>
<p>I expect I will get to be more active in discussions of art education and visual arts as my second son gets older.</p>
<p>You're never going to believe this, but I host on a Disney web site.</p>
<p>Your screen name gives you away.</p>
<p>I post on another college-parents board, a politics board, and a health-related support-group (concerning a particular type of chronic disease).</p>
<p>This is the only board I visit of this type. The information here is great. Also, I am one of the administrators of a writer's board, but I don't post usually.</p>
<p>When my daughter was in high school, I frequented marching band boards (band geek parent here) but now that's that no longer an activity I only lurk occasionally at Grand Nationals time. Also, lurk on a sorority/fraternity board and post very infrequently. If you think you worry about the college admission process, try sorority rush - it is truly nerve-wracking!</p>
<p>I facilitate online courses for educators.</p>
<p>I sometimes posted on Salon.com before you had to pay to post on the forums. I thought about ponying up to continue participating a year or so ago, but when I checked out the forums using a day pass, I found that things have slowed down considerably there. Not worth the money. But I really can't afford to subscribe to online forums anyway, what with college costs being a top-most consideration nowadays. I also use to frequent a Delphi Forum for Multiple Sclerosis patients and persons seeking information on MS, when it was suspected that I might have the disease a few years ago.</p>
<p>I used to go to a parents of gifted kids board but then I found CC and I don't do anything else. Well, sometimes I check out cnn.com for news but, really, there is SO much here to read and talk about that I don't have the time or desire to go anywhere else. My homepage is still Google, though... I'm not THAT addicted to CC.</p>
<p>I post on a travel board, mostly to give and get advice on Asian travel, but I use it for Europe as well. Have found the information on hotels and restaurants to be invaluable and fairly reliable as long as you filter out the extreme recommendations and have a large enough sampling of viewpoints.</p>
<p>Sometimes I post on a board for my community, used to post on Girl Scout-related boards.</p>
<p>I have checked travel boards, also, especially when I was planning the college road trip. But I think the boards related to Disney World are the funniest.</p>
<p>momrath, what would i have to put into google to find the travel board?</p>
<p>I have yahoo groups for my daughters high school that I visit( I could have email deposted daily if I really wanted to)
I also visit livejournal blogs for her school and for her sisters college.</p>
<p>When I was 39 and preggo with my last child, most of my IRL friends were long finished having babies. At that time, I joined an "expecting club" which evolved into a parenting board (termed a playgroup) after delivery. I posted on that for many years before I decided that I needed a break from internet bulletin boards. I have, however, made some lasting friends from that very special time in my life. My youngest son was a definite cyber-baby. He was given a welcome-baby webpage for a gift by one of my internet buddies! And most of his nursings took place where else?? Right in front of the computer screen reading posts and trying to respond one-handedly! <em>lol</em> ~berurah</p>
<p>CC consumes the overwelming majority of my on-line chat energy, but I'm also on some homeschooling email lists and a gifted education email list. I definitely never go to any boards having to do with my job.</p>
<p>I lurk and periodically post on two other boards: one for foodies and one for devotees of a specific vintage collectible.</p>