Conversation, Community, and Facebook

innerSpaceman · 04-23-2013, 10:22 AM

Facebook is very much a different experience for everyone who uses it. I'm fortunate to have a good mix of friends there and sometimes, for months at a time, they will foster really interesting conversations akin to what we might have had on a message board. But then that will stop, and go, and stop again. And change and morph to something else. But yes, it's not like THIS was, and I miss that.

In fact, I've grown so tired of bumper sticker posts and truncated on-line conversations that I've quit Twitter entirely and have gone exclusively Facebook. It's very different from The LoT, and often not as fulfilling as the LoT once was. But let's face it - whether video killed the radio star or not, the LoT is a mere shadow of what it once was.

Things change, and some of those changes are not perceptively for the better.

So, yes, let's have some in-person salons ... because I don't think the message board age is ever coming back. And one day, if I live to see it, we'll say the same about Facebook.

But that day is a long way off. And while we live in the Facebook world, I think augmenting the on-line universe with in-person in-teraction would be wise and rewarding.

04-23-2013, 10:22 AM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Facebook is very much a different experience for everyone who uses it. I'm fortunate to have a good mix of friends there and sometimes, for months at a time, they will foster really interesting conversations akin to what we might have had on a message board. But then that will stop, and go, and stop again. And change and morph to something else. But yes, it's not like THIS was, and I miss that. In fact, I've grown so tired of bumper sticker posts and truncated on-line conversations that I've quit Twitter entirely and have gone exclusively Facebook. It's very different from The LoT, and often not as fulfilling as the LoT once was. But let's face it - whether video killed the radio star or not, the LoT is a mere shadow of what it once was. Things change, and some of those changes are not perceptively for the better. So, yes, let's have some in-person salons ... because I don't think the message board age is ever coming back. And one day, if I live to see it, we'll say the same about Facebook. But that day is a long way off. And while we live in the Facebook world, I think augmenting the on-line universe with in-person in-teraction would be wise and rewarding.
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