You're alive!!!!bobbydj wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:28 amThis (apologies for the belated reply).
FB is shit for the kinds of things that message boards do well. I've seen various non-music related forums die over the last decade and, as they have been taken by web rot, many, many excellent archives of knowledge have gone too. I'm talking about motoring, car and bike maintenance, stuff like that. Some incredible model specific forums for Honda and Kawasaki etc. totally vanished.
At least the TOMBs are still here even if they have long since been covered over by accumulated drifts of digital tumble weeds.
I too prefer messageboards/forums for threaded conversations. Personally I coped just fine before social media became the predominant method of communicating over the web. We had instant messengers protocols and clients for talking to other people without spending money on phone calls or actually having to see them face to face; and if we wanted to talk to groups of like-minded people who shared our interests we had forums like this one.
Social media (whatever that is) only really took off with the exponential increase in the ownership of computing devices that came as the first generation of desktop and laptop computers, with processors capable of handling relatively fast streams of data, fell into the category where they could be purchased used by Europoors like us for the kinds of prices we could afford without having to take out a loan.