This is going to sound crazy, but the last three years, in monitoring, I've come here to check in, share my angst, offer support etc, nearly every day. Now that I'm done with monitoring I'm kind of at a loss! Of course I can come here to offer advice still, but I don't want my online social life to revolve around TPAPN! I want to forget TPAPN!

I've got some interests, but I don't really want a discussion board that's solely for a single topic, hiking, reading, camping, cooking, low carb, divorced, over 50, etc etc. I'd like to find a discussion forum where I can talk about all those things, depending on my mood. I'm a member of several private Facebook groups too, related to those topics (solo travel, camping etc) so maybe small private Facebook groups are the answer, I just don't particularly like Facebook. I just wondered if any of you have another discussion forum, besides allnurses, that you like, that's broad ranged or is separated into many topics, etc. I'd like something like allnurses but NOT related to nursing! Maybe age related (over 50) or divorced or something, with more specific topics that you can post to.

You can go to google groups and plug in your interests. It will give you number of groups to choose from

Reddit?

I second Reddit. I'm a member of multiple subreddits and get to follow many of my odd ball interests that way. It's all located conveniently in one app and I can subscribe or unsubscribe to any reddit subforum as I please. You have your homepage which shows a feed of all your subscribed forums, plus a popular page, where you can browse hot, trending, or controversial posts from all of the subreddits, and you can sort by new, hot, trending, and controversial on either page. It's pretty cool.

I second Reddit. I'm a member of multiple subreddits and get to follow many of my odd ball interests that way. It's all located conveniently in one app and I can subscribe or unsubscribe to any reddit subforum as I please. You have your homepage which shows a feed of all your subscribed forums, plus a popular page, where you can browse hot, trending, or controversial posts from all of the subreddits, and you can sort by new, hot, trending, and controversial on either page. It's pretty cool.

I will check out Reddit. I've looked at it before, but I don't think I really understood it, and how it was structured There are SO MANY different topics, sub reddits, I never figured out how a person would go about finding the subreddits that would interest them. And how do you figure out which sub Reddit to follow, when there are so many that seem to be pretty much the same? I was looking for keto diet discussions, but ended up getting lost along the way because there are so many! I will give Reddit another try. Thanks!

For nursing topics, most of the other sites devoted to nursing have either died or are almost nonexistent one way or the other. I found some other sites devoted to other topics, but those too, die out when people don't participate. It's pretty bad when all one seems to be able to find on the internets is the yahoo news feeds!