R.I.P. Message Boards

Yes, because suddenly no other women anywhere are trying to conceive. Your argument makes no sense.

Every messageboard I've ever been a part of or looked at has had a core group of dedicated regulars who set the tone for the place, serve as moderators, take care of hosting/coding, and generate most of the valuable discussion. You can't really have a community if it's just a constant revolving influx of new blood imo. And most of the best ones seem to involve people who are obsessed with the board's topic and have been active members for years. I would think that most people posting on a "TTC" board are not going to stick around for a decade.

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Nobody tell that lady about SomethingAwful.

Wait, somebody tell her about it. Or4chan. Or reddit. Or WATMM. Or ILX. Or Whirlpool...

“My guess is that as time went on and the archives got larger and larger, many people are researching old topics rather than starting new threads,” another wrote. “Every possible topic has already been discussed.”

POLL: Do you wear a wristwatch?

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FERTILITY, INTERNET FORUMS, MESSAGE BOARDS, WOMEN

its sad, we posted on one

Maybe the gist of the story is, "I noticed an old forum I used to post to is dead. I also found a couple of other dead forums, thus it's of course a new webwide trend. Sprinkle in some plausibility with Web 2.0 gibberish, and print!"

You know what I also hear is dying is NEWSPAPERS LIKE THE NY TIMES.

I scoff at the Old Media just like I scoffed at Old Europe during the Iraqi War or Operation Sunblock or whatever it was called

xpost it's true! The News Of The World shut suddenly last sunday!

So many of those message boards look like shit. All those stupid icons and signatures. Good riddance!

Message boards have been replaced with LiveJournal. THAT IS SO SAD!

LiveJournal's already been supplanted by DreamWidth.

more like dreamwitch (because livejournals are for goths)

google+ is the new livejournal, going by the amount of blogging on it

google+ came over to my house and literally replaced my previous social networking sites, photos uploaded, the lot. It then washed the dishes before leaving.

My wife used to post on some of those boards made up primarily of late 20s women. They always seemed to erupt in drama when one poster criticized anothers' parenting skill too harshly, then camps formed around various posters and breakaway boards were created to keep the warring factions away from one another.

people pretty much just use google+ to talk about google+ as far as i can tell

i got chased off metafilter by a bunch of 20something women for daring to suggest that the parents of transracially adopted parents aren't any more 'noble' than parents who bear their children themselves, and should that adopting a black/asian/russian kid didn't make you some kind of saint or martyr. p.s. i am transracially adopted and love my parents.

the parents of transracially adopted parents.

"i'm 3rd generation transracial myself, you can probably tell"

metafilter is that worst of all possible worlds: a population of idiots that fancy themselves smart

and before the obvious zing flies in, i would suggest that at least on ILX we know we're all idiots

yeah, for sure.

bit of a mistype above. it was interesting how quickly the metafilter bile flew, and how racially inflected it became w/in two or three minutes.

ha cmon now

i hardly look at metafilter now, but i remember any post about music or politics drew a mountain of disspiriting conversation

metafilter is better than fark or reddit, but thats not saying anything

c'mon on the racially inflected bit? a lot of u.s. adoption law/custom is really fucked up by fundie adoption agencies who see adopting kids from foreign countries as a form of civilizing, missionary work. on the other side, a lot of countries have really low opinions of U.S. citizens coming to 'take' their babies, and treat adoptive parents like garbage. it's a really heated issue, and i wandered into it unarmed

You were born in Colombia, no?

yep

Pasto? Armenia?

Sorry, those are just some names of towns I learned recently that I liked.

oh man

like, every single thing in that article is wrong

Mosquera, Cundinamarca

xxp didn't mean any offence, remy, and sorry if you took any. It was a throwaway 'awkward party introductions' kinda comment, not meant to hit any sore spots.

np. i'm a real eugenic guy.

i'm not touching that

sometimes feel I keep this place going just to save myself from ever having to go to metafilter again tbh

http://www.metafilter.com/89131/Hipster-Puppies

http://www.metafilter.com/82458/Three-Frames

Thought about jumping ship but, like the castaways on Gilligan's Island, I don't want to escape under false pretenses, I want to be rescued properly.

like, did it occur to v heffernan that google is attempting to make social networking MORE like messageboards, i.e. conversations that "stay in the room" ?

or even to ask a friend what "web 1.0" means?

"Hi, Gladys? Good, thanks. Say, I was just wondering...do you happen to know what the web 1.0 means?"