IRC Ruined me

As the name of this blog implies, I am huge into IRC, well was. I found it fun to sign in and join chats and have a fun time with people from around the world. I met a ton of great people on IRC over the past year, but sadly all good things must come to an end.

As the saying goes "The sh*t hit the fan". I won't go into a lot of depth about what has been happening on the IRC networks I visit, but rest assured, I have no home anymore. For one I have been all but blacklisted for voicing support for people when they had problems with the network, I followed them to their new server, and worked my way up in the standing there, even getting an o:line. Everything seemed great, but now they have moved on, the network is in question, and I am questioning even more.

When I showed up for college last fall, I didn't know many people, I made friends, but a lot more of my time was spent on IRC than it should have. My grades slipped, but I was happy because I had finally found a place where people seemed to care and seemed to have some respect for me. I would get out of class and run back to my dorm to check highlights before running to dinner or another class, I snapped at a person I truly care about because my scripts for mirc got over written, I gave up true friendships for more "power".

IRC is great, its great for conferencing, for general chatter, but never should have been my life. To all those people on IRC (you know who you are) understand I will be on, but it will be harder to find me, I don't know where my home is, if I even have one.