to just become aware that being mildly infatuated with AIBU had made me feel more aggressive?

[Downdog]

Just read a comment on another thread re AIBU being the equivalent of a good scrap. This led to a lighbulb moment - I've become strangely hooked on AIBU, and sometimes at the end of the day I notice I'm feeling wound up or tense - but it's not as a result of the working day, but from reading/posting/laughing at and generally being involved in AIBU during the day.

I find AIBU a fascinating & welcome diversion from desk job. It also has a social element in that I stop in most nights & would prefer to live in more of a community where things are discussed freely over pots of tea/coffee etc than a flat in central London currently provides. But I think I do feel more stroppy and perhaps even aggressive after hanging out here.

I'm thinking need a week off from AIBU - and I can feel withdrawl syptoms already.

Is it reasonable to be attached to AIBU? And please don't tell me to get a life. I have a
rich varied life that interests me (living conditions aside). I can see the benefits of the occasional good scrap, and I love/hate all the different opinions on MN, but I think perhaps the daily 'virtual' scraps (whether I'm involved or just reading the scraps of others) is just too much and not healthy.

AIBU to think that participating in this is actually quite addictive & I should switch off for my emotional well being or just pop in occasionally when I fell like a good ruck (which I think would be unreasonable)?

i found that for a while when i first discovered AIBU and had to take a step back but now i realise that i just need to enter it with a more detatched attitude. as in 'it's not real' even though it is but it helps me not to get so worked up sometimes.

also, i do seek it out sometimes when i am in bad mood, knowing i will get stuck into a good argument and feel alot better for it.

YANBU

I have to stop myself saing 'YABU' or 'YANBU' out loud to people these days... that's how AIBU has affected me...

i think that's quite depressing really - there is usually an op who can get upset by it, but i guess you will all say 'well don't post on aibu then'

I do the same McSnail. And sometime I find my facial expressions trying to act out the emoticons.

I am giving myself the rest of the day off from AIBU.... maybe.

this is why us oldies moan and say AIBU is the worst thing that ever happened to MN

its sooooo addicitive, I like a little ruck on here myself. Mainly on a friday afternoon. Its true though how it can stick in your head, for that reason I only do at work and try NOT to do in the evening

and I wonder why my pay rise has not been approved

so YANBU

and agree that you do sometimes what to say YABY in RL and you just cant!!!

I tend to dip in and out of it. I sometimes find myself getting into stupid arguments with people I'd probably run a mile from in real life, then getting annoyed with myself for wasting time with them. I think small doses is the key.

YANBU = I feel exactly the same! Can't stop myself sometimes, then suddenly I feel the urge to punch someone so I switch off and go and do something else instead (Why Don't You? flashback for 70's kids!
Everything in moderation!