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fandomsecrets2013-10-10 06:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-10-10 06:49 pm
[ SECRET POST #2473 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2473 ⌋
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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 012 secrets from Secret Submission Post #353.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Re: Forums/Messageboards
I've seen a very large number of platforms basically dry up in activity. In a way, this is just a side effect of the passage of time. Lots of forums have died quiet deaths as people lose interest in the forum's raison d'etre and simply run out of things to discuss. It happens all the time, and has for years, since the days of Usenet.
But thanks to the rise of social media, forums are experiencing mass die-offs. Plainly speaking, forums and the like are an old-school method of communicating that is disappearing as we enter a transition phase- social media. The internet of ten years from now will probably be very different from what it is at this moment in time; and I've been an internaut long enough that the internet of today is no longer recognizable as what I spent the last decade and a half on.
The truth is, this phenomenon has been building up steam for a very long time. I guess you could say it started with Livejournal, but that's only sort of true. The real culprit, I think, is Myspace. That started the trend. And when Facebook stopped being exclusively for college students all bets were off. Communication could be lightning quick -- no need for long missives that required an extra mouseclick to post something.
So yeah, it can be partially blamed on stuff like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, but I think it's also to do with a lot of the old-timers across the internet stepping out.
Think about it. Forums are a web 1.0 concept, populated by people who are now older. Folks my age, 30-40 somethings, were the guys who were around before we had all this web 2.0, social media stuff. We've been there since the 1990s, and we were just kids then. The internet was a new and scary and interesting place. It was a lawless wasteland, and I think most people my age are lucky that they got through it (and the 4chan years) unscathed.
We're old now. We're tired. And a lot of us long-timers, we lose interest, get jobs, lives, spouses, children, prison time, whatever. We simply don't have the time or inclination. We've grown disinterested in the fascinating new world of the internet, and we're also disillusioned- we all thought it'd be like Gibson's cyberspace or the Matrix or some damn shit, and it turned out to be cat torture videos and bloodninja. It's a bit disappointing, you know? (also showing my age making a bloodninja joke)
So we emerge from our darkened basement rooms into groups of family and friends that barely recognize us anymore, shave off our Saddam spider hole beards (yes even the women) and go out and do stuff. Stuff like Facebook lets us keep in touch without having to actually blow a lot of time writing up a post.
tl;dr forums a comparatively slow web 1.0 concept populated by older internauts who don't have time anymore and moved to faster-paced web 2.0 sites like tumblr and facebook which has been populated by the next generation since day one
Re: Forums/Messageboards