xpost it's true! The News Of The World shut suddenly last sunday!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
So many of those message boards look like shit. All those stupid icons and signatures. Good riddance!
― Mount Cleaners, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
Message boards have been replaced with LiveJournal. THAT IS SO SAD!
― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
LiveJournal's already been supplanted by DreamWidth.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
more like dreamwitch (because livejournals are for goths)
― positively clean dishes (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
google+ is the new livejournal, going by the amount of blogging on it
― stet, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
people pretty much just use google+ to talk about google+ as far as i can tell
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
the parents of transracially adopted parents.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
"i'm 3rd generation transracial myself, you can probably tell"
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
metafilter is that worst of all possible worlds: a population of idiots that fancy themselves smart
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
and before the obvious zing flies in, i would suggest that at least on ILX we know we're all idiots
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
ha cmon now
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
i hardly look at metafilter now, but i remember any post about music or politics drew a mountain of disspiriting conversation
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
metafilter is better than fark or reddit, but thats not saying anything
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
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
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
You were born in Colombia, no?
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Pasto? Armenia?
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, those are just some names of towns I learned recently that I liked.
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
like, every single thing in that article is wrong
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Mosquera, Cundinamarca
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
np. i'm a real eugenic guy.
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not touching that
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes feel I keep this place going just to save myself from ever having to go to metafilter again tbh
― stet, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.metafilter.com/89131/Hipster-Puppies
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.metafilter.com/82458/Three-Frames
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Hi, Gladys? Good, thanks. Say, I was just wondering...do you happen to know what the web 1.0 means?"
― dell (del), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link