You're most certainly welcome.
I totally get what you mean there, and not a problem. I think with me, it's a combination of work and my perception of time changing again. I'm also positive it's due to also being inundated with ETS since 2004, and social media in general since 2002, which also left me feeling jaded.
And while I'll never knock both Internet activities, since it's been a huge chunk of my life since I was 14, but in my 30s, it made me realize just how much of a time-sink both types of sites can be. I've always been aware of it, but I'm just experiences further realizations as I age, so it's like re-learning time management again. It's almost next to impossible to keep up with on a regular basis when you're engaged in real life interactions, obligations and experiences. On the other hand, it's also easier when it's about topics you love, so there's that. But it still just gave me more reasons to cut down. Along with other changes I'd have and hope to make, since something's got to give for the 2020s, considering the fact that's also the decade I turn 40. (It's crazy, because I've been treating my body like I'm still my 20s, but I really got to stop.)
Like other seemingly eternal struggles in life, so has been pacing myself, and just remembering how finite time itself really is. It's like we sometimes have all day, and just don't, all at the same time.
But yeah, it's like how you need to have nothing going when binge-anything, but in this case, you really have to have nothing going sometimes online in order to engage in online discussions. Aside from getting into new interests and just being busy, it also increased my understanding on why so many huge NIN fans also either left ETS, stopped posting, or didn't even join the new ETS right away, or even ever.
I think I just always found it fun, because I sometimes enjoy writing, and that I actually write so much better than I speak.
But yeah, while Internet forums are anything but new, I still find it fascinating that such sites exists where people from all parts of the world can join in and discuss similar interests and points of view, etc.
Thankfully, lurking will never get old though.
Lurk more./Lurk moar. is indeed, Internet sage advice. Has been, and always will be.