Jeeez Matt, even though I know diversity exisist in every community of every size ..... my motives are simple.
1. I joined SI to learn about a broader set of companies than I would discover on my own.
2. Back in 1997/1998, there was very little information about most companies that were easy to access. Bulletin boards were the best way to exchange grass roots information about emerging high growth companies.
3. The people I interact with and work with in real life are a fairly homogeneous bunch (translation: nice, but a little on the boring side). So this gives me a change to interact with people from around the world who I have something in common with but at the same time, are very different than I am.
4. It probably took about 18 months before I discovered what a hot bed for promoters, predators, and scam artists the online world was. I honestly had no clue -- and most of these guys of course never revealed that they were paid promoters. Even with FAMH, which I spotted as a scam IMMEDIATELY, I had no idea that people were paid "free shares" to go to bobz, RB, SI, Yahoo, mIRC and post pure fiction to entice people to buy stocks.
5. Why am I still here ? Ummmmmm .... mostly cuz I don't want to lose touch with Bernard, Jim Bishop, Wayne R. and some other people I've met along the way -- cuz doing so means going back to associating with just the data processing people I know in the real world. But I sure ain't looking for the penny mo-mo of the day or even the next "Microsoft".
Hope you are doing well Matt.
Regards,
Chris
My other online trading account is a mattress !
My other online trading account is a mattress !
