If you wanted to get to know someone / just chat, there was a FREEPER / FreeRepublic chat roomm, and The Alley.
There are fewer and fewer threads , now, that are political / current events ; shunted aside by " WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE LINE FROM A MOVIE ? ", " WHAT WAS YOUR FAV MUNCHIE, AFTER DOING POT ? ". and tonight's gem " HOW FAST HAVE YOU EVER DRIVEN ? " If YOU can find a redeeming feature in this waste of bandwidth, you're a better man than I; Gunga Din. LOL Oh, and I'm NOT a man !
Yet often politics and vanities mesh, and stand SHOULDER TO SHOULDER (e.g., "I HAVE A DATE WITH NOAM CHOMSKY--WHAT PERFUME SHOULD I WEAR?").
Of special interest to you might be "WAS GUNGA DIN A CONSERVATIVE?
Heh. Neither am I. ;) But note, while I said that community-type posts help build friendships, etc., I also said that we should avoid them in order to save bandwidth and keep costs for FR and JimRob down.
If you wanted to get to know someone / just chat, there was a FREEPER / FreeRepublic chat roomm, and The Alley.
Haven't heard much about those, just a mention here and there. How do you access them? Or does your use of "was" mean they are now defunct?