RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
July 19, 2020 at 6:58 am
(July 19, 2020 at 3:51 am)Porcupine Wrote: Perhaps it would help if I mentioned: I pretty much only like discussing important topics. I don't like small talk. For me a good conversation has to at least include room for disagreement because I just can't enjoy a conversation that involves nothing but head nodding whether literal head nodding or verbal head nodding.
I know how you feel about small talk. As I get older I have less patience for it.
It's hard to find a balance on line -- I confess I'm nostalgic for the now-defunct Amazon forums, which had a wider variety of people. Some epic fights, of course, but I also learned a lot.
Just now I remembered another site that I tried briefly, which you might enjoy.
https://www.booktalk.org/forum.html
To fit in on this site you have to be reading the current book. It stays pretty focussed on the book they've chosen, with people writing chapter summaries and giving their opinions. There are some seriously smart people there, and people who are devoted to the discussion. I didn't stay because I'm reading different things, but if you have the time and energy to read the selection, you might fit in well.
