It’s about time I updated you all on my Forum Infidelity.

I did not confess my sins. I did not beg forgiveness.

I have, however returned to my favourite forum. Somewhat meekly at first, then with all the gusto and passion common to the guilty.

It would seem that the shiny newness of other forums and friendships with forum members outside the forum walls has worn a little; the situation has cooled.

My original post was tongue in cheek, I didn’t really feel terribly guilty about beoming addicted to forums or “cheating on the forum” with other forum members.

Because of the post - despite all it’s silliness, I have discovered something interesting.

People are searching for information about cheating online or online infidelity in numbers I was both surprised and saddened by. To a lesser extent they are searching for Australian Forums (so I will add a link with a list of some that I know of below) but mostly I am interested in exploring the idea of online infidelity.

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Tags: australian forums, cheating online, confessions, infidelity, online infidelity

I picked up my toddler from preschool last Monday and he was happy as usual to see me, flushed and tired from a day running with the other kids, painting his clothes, depositing sand into all kinds of places and losing his socks.

On Wednesday he was vomiting all over me and had pains in the stomach (tummy sore Mummy) and something I will politely describe as diahorrea.

We went to the doctor to eliminate all the worst case scenarios and went home for rest and fluids. A virus. In 24 hours it had passed though I decided he’d have to miss the following day at pre-school to be sure which is always tough to do as he only goes two days a week and just loves it.

On Friday morning, I woke to severe abdominal pain, a bed spinning sense of nausea and my toddler’s adorable but clumsy fingers on my eyelids (awake Mummy?)

I will politely describe the next 40 hours as violently ill.

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Tags: computer shutting down, pre school virus, virus, warning fatal error

I recently threw away a weeks work as an affiliate, on a product launch by not recommending the product on launch day - what an idiot! I had Yahoo’s top two spots, and 2 places on Google’s first page and the Top 4 for Google Australia for the product title search.

My landing page invited emails from interested parties as to why I was not recommending the latest, greatest, must have program for affilliates to make money through adwords campaigns.

I was inundated with emails.

My point here is only that this is how I became friends with G.

G is the mother of three kids under 10 - one of them is about a month younger than my toddler. She and her husband both work full time and she is studying part time. They hate their jobs but they are in debt.

G is trying to make money online to get out of debt and get a life more like the one she dreams of.

Now Wait - this was a long and boring post so I sent an email to G and asked her if I could I post our email correspondence from the other day and she said yes - so here it is almost completely unedited:

Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:G <g@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: G<g@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mentor?
To: ME

Hey Robyn,

I need some quick advice, I have been contacted about getting a mentor, through Shawn Casey. Do you recommend this, there is a cost for this but they guarantee profits within 3-6 months.

What do you think?

Thanks G

From: “ME>
To: G <g@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 8:50:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mentor?

Hi G,

Firstly don’t rush any decision, no matter how “urgent” the sales
letter, cause remember that’s what it is.

How much is it?
Who will be your mentor?
How many others will that person be mentoring?
What is the program?

Remember that $1 more than expenditure is a profit.

Get back to me,

Cheers Robyn

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Tags: hsbc, hsbc prospering, hsbc prospering com, making money online, marketing scams, shawn casey, shawn casey mentor, shawn casey mentor program scam, shawn casey scam

I never thought I’d make such a confession on a blog. It’s just that it’s eating at me. Last night I barely slept, I haven’t written a thing in days let alone been able to complete the more mundane tasks associated with our web hosting business.

I’ve come to the conclusion I must confess; there’s just no way around it.

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Tags: australian forums, cheating online, confessions, forums, Off Topic, Synchronicity Hosting, Web Hosting, webhosting