1… you can speak and answer when you please.
2…I think there is much more freedom to engage on a forum about all sorts of things, which I’ve never been able to do in real life.
3…You can learn about yourself and others on a forum after posting for years.
Or not at all if you don’t wish to, nobody hassling for an answer.
A variety of subjects and of course many different posters too.
I know myself quite well, after all I’ve lived with myself all my life!
Interesting to learn about others, although that’s not always easy
when it’s just text on a screen.
You get to interact with people and ideas you wouldn’t usually ( and sometimes wouldn’t put up with) without having to mix with them in the flesh, so to speak