Wiki is wonderful ...tell the world!

You may remember a few weeks ago there was a piece in the Daily Mail which was less than complimentary about wiki … and made a lot of us very angry

Well here is your chance to tell the world how fab wiki really is!!

We have been contacted by a journalist who herself joined wiki for help … and who is writing a piece for a glossy mag about support/networking sites.

This is what she says:

How has Wikivorce helped you?

My name is Andreina and I'm working on an article about how more and more women are choosing to share their lives online - whether it's venting our frustrations, confessing something we can't even tell our friends, or just showing a side to ourselves which we feel we can't show to anybody else.

I think Wikivorce is a really great positive example of this, and I'm looking for women who would be happy to talk to me about how blogging or posting on the site has made a difference to their experience of divorce.

If anyone wants to volunteer to talk to Andreina, please PM me, hadenoughnow, with contact details – tel no and email. AND/OR if you want, post your views in this thread so she can use quotes from anonymous happy wikipeeps as well.

Hadenoughnow

How refreshing to know people are interested in good news too!

Wikivorce has helped me in several ways.

Firstly it showed me I was not alone and my feelings were not mad, they were normal and experienced by many people in my situation.

The chat room enabled me to explore these feelings as well as providing a good laugh - some very funny evenings doing online quizzes, or dreaming up song titles for a hospital radio stick in the memory.

I was able to go and meet some fabulous Wikipeeps at 4 different meetings, which was wonderful for my social life and esteem.

Lastly, and my no means least, being able to offer support in turn to other people who are new to this life event has been a way of feeling something good has come out of my pain.

I am not divorced yet, just separated for a year, but Wiki has been a great companion on my journey.

Nell

Hi hadenoughnow

You probably won't be able to use this but:

Wkivorce has been there in so many good ways.

It is what it says it is, a divorce support community.

When you are at a stage of emotional trauma, Wikivorce is there to answer those questions that are going around in your head, (even in the middle of the night), whether they are legal questions or emotional questions.

It's a place you can go to for comfort in your time of need, it's always there even if everyone else is asleep you can write stuff down and know that someone will respond as soon as they see what you have written. You can read so much information in the Wikivorce Library that has been very kindly built up by the owner, Wikivorce moderators, and members who want to share their knowledge to help others. Just reading forum threads and peoples' blogs is comforting.

On top of all that there is the social side for if and when you are ready, meeting up with a group of people who understand what you are going through because they are/have gone through it themselves is just what you need to help you to begin to move on, plus being in a group feels less duanting than starting over alone.

Wikivorce people help you to remember that even if your heart is in pieces, someone, somewhere will appreciate the light that you shine, you can use it to guide each other through the darker days.

(PS if above is no good Adreina can use my poem, may not be what she is looking for tho ,but I did write it for Wiki-peeps and not self, and run it by the owner first as it includes names etc.,).

Here, alone, I quietly sit, wondering if this is it.

Outlook grim, future stolen, heart in shreds, eyes all swollen.

People tell me think of self, eat, sleep, breathe, look after health.

Easier as time goes by, how do they know? ..... Who am I?



Friends, support, forums, chat, posting this, blogging that.

Our legal worries put at ease, by DLs' caring expertise.

Rispins' brainchild 24/7, information, divorcees' heaven.



Www.wikivorce.com no matter where you are from.

International status now, members - more than 40 thou.,

Kindred spirits Wikipeeps, friends in passing, friends for keeps.

I don't feel so alone right now, there's no one here, so don't know how.

Perhaps the company I'm keeping, while the rest of you are sleeping,

Exists in typing every letter, in this blog 'til I feel better.

Ever faithful plugged in lappy; could it be, I can be happy?

People care, I'm not alone, virtual people in my home.

Sharing virtual hugs & kisses, social chit chat, fun pub quizzes.



You lean on me, I lean on you, we help each other to get through.

Emotional mess, we cannot cope, we give each other Wiki-hope.

Thanx to Ian for Wikivorce And thanx to Wikipeeps of course

Hi hadenoughnow,

quite simply Wiki has saved my sanity - to be able to chat with decent human beings thru forums, blogs chatroom or whatever at ANY time day and night; to be reminded I am not alone or unique in my pain is absolutely PRICELESS!!!!!!!!! Wikipeeps RULE

Hey, I think personally it has saved alot of people, me included.

Just reading people stories sometimes makes me sad, other times I laugh, very loudly, but hey if you cant laugh, then there's nothing down for you.

Hope life continues to be okay for you, my life is stagnant at the moment but thats life.

Helli

Anyone else got something to add??

My name is Andreina and I'm working on an article about how more and more women are choosing to share their lives online

Sounds like yet another reporter that can't be bothered to include males in her assessment of the difficulties we all face when experiencing separation and divorce. Can't wait for this article