Based on this one.

no hard feelings guys but I see it.

Remember chat rooms?

It used to be great, but now it's shit.

It changed, and I changed, and I want everything to stay the same forever.

And if I can't have my way I have a duty to take a crap on what I used to love.

Y'all are the most literate bunch of 4 year-olds ever.

Nope, has nothing to do with that.

The signs are clear.

Sorry, just hoping the force of my personality might hurry things along.

I'm not directing anything at you personally but yeah, I'm sure you are helping.

I mean, honestly will all of the forms of "social interaction/networking" all over the internet now a day, what reason do small time forums have to survive? There is a nostalgia between current users maybe, but how strong can bond prove to be? If someone said SOMB would cost me anything, I'd be gone in a second as I'm sure others would as well.

It really doesn't have much to offer that hasn't been bettered except for complete anonymity if so desired but I'm sure even that will be a mute point for most.

Russell, do you have anymore dumb shit to add?

hahaha shit stirring

Twitter is the future for everything.

Drinking some Miller High Life guys, life is good. All I need is a deck chair and some flip flops.

As long as I am posting, there will always be message boards.

and youtube.com

Spamming on message boards is less prevalent. The worst around here are the people that try to convince you Gorillaz make good music.

This board could die, and message boards will eventually, too. But, I don't think it's anywhere nearby. I mean, I'm on a hockey message board, and it has 70,717 members, with 636,816 posts (I know, I know, I, too, am surprised that there are 70,000+ hockey fans). There's obviously still a demand there, that will need something to take its place before the message board, as a forum, dies completely.

Hey hey! My my!



Message boards will NEVER die!

I would not put it past Neil Young circa 2010 to actually write and release that song. Or to make an entire album out of it.

Well, this forum was never too active. But, I think MBs actually are being phased out by Facebook groups and Twitter.

In the sense that a board can be a community that stuff like FB and twitter can't really match, I don't expect them to go away completely, but sure I could see them fading somewhat (probably already have). The novelty of FB has already worn off for me, and I've never seen a reason to start with twitter. In terms of having in-depth, long, continuous discussions with anonymous people, I don't see how message boards can be beat right now. FB is too cluttered with game/quiz crap and too scatter-shot in the people you interact with to lead to focused discussions, and twitter seems designed for just the opposite.

Listing 100 albums on twitter just doesn't feel right.

also, getting into heated arguments over vampire weekend with people you know probably isn't a smart move. twitter, who knows. too impersonal?

I don't think it's possible either.

Someone mentioned FB groups, and I've joined a few. But even the ones that are well-popuulated don't seem to have much going on with them. From my experience, they're either too big or too small and there's no sense of community whatsoever. There's just a string of comments, not a real message board with topics, etc. The only way they would work well enough to replace MBs would be to mimic what MBs do within the FB group. And even if that happens, I'm not sure FB has replaced MBs so much as just moved them.

In a sense, it would be going full circle from when CompuServe/AOL groups/MBs were the place to go, then internet got cheap enough we could all afford to venture out onto the internet so we left those services for the wide-open spaces of the net, and now services and pulling us back in again.

Don't think Facebook based message boards will work cause of the whole lack of anonymity, kind of hard to be a hate-spewing prick when everyone knows you're a fan of "I lol'd so hard when I saw this epic FAIL".

Bullshit. Twitter is the biggest flash in a pan fad I've ever seen. Its memberhsip signups have already leveled off last time I checked.

The truth of the matter is, who knows what will be the "next thing". Just 12 short years ago, Google didnt even exist and everyone was still logging onto the internet at 56/k with those free American Online discs that would show up in the mail.

I think ultimately though, the concept of logging into a social network site/message board/email account/ etc to identify yourself on the internet will be an ancient concept in the not too distant future.

Not only have you failed to present any new ideas here, your last sentence makes zero sense.

This is where I was kind of going with my last point. I believe the concept of anonymity on the internet (or the illusion of such) will be gone very very shortly. You will simply "be yourself" everywhere. Everything will be much more interconnected and fluid (i.e. you wont need to log into a seperate account for your bank account, email, shopping sites, etc....you'll be instantly recognized as YOU. and you will easily be able to communicate with other people browsing the same things you are). So while that might raise some concerns, ultimately I think as far as discourse goes its a positive. Just look at the difference between newspaper message boards which require registration (such as the NY Times) and those which dont...its night and day. Because in general, people act like rational human beings when they're not hiding behind some mask.

Not ever going to happen.

You're deluded if you think it won't. Its the natural evolution of things. Just look at the massive volume of information people voluntarily give up on themselves on Facebook. They're not being forced to do so, they're doing it because it connects them with other people. This will simply be a bigger scale.

Do you really think you're anonymous now?

While I can certainly see this as a core way to use the Internet, I see no reason why people wouldn't be able to gradually adjust their level of exposure in different areas; maybe a lot of information is available to a network of close friends, and then you have a second ring of, say, professional interaction that is somewhat more limited, and then a third ring where maybe just your first name or even an alias is available.

In the future Facebook or Google or someone else will build something that will do everything a message board does (create "threads" on topics of interest to a certain sub-group), but is less static and more integrated with other parts of the Internet. The idea of interacting with strangers with shared interests won't go away any time soon.

this is an article which is basically getting at what im saying in a more eloquent manner

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle2726190.ece

I think we agree. Thats pretty much what Im saying.

Threre's a lot of reasons why message boards suck. But occasionally they are good for a laugh and even more rarely, you will find a nugget of infomation that is interesting.
For real knowledge and entertainment however I recommend my blog...

trolls would be one example

Not sure why Ace wouldn't think message boards suck. He can't post on them without people requesting that he be banned and then having it actually happen. As it stands, I can't particularly relate to that line of thinking.

and where else could he get away with hilarious abortion jokes, tub-girl pictures and asking to see a 15 year old's penis.

Maybe someone should direct him to 4chan.

Sorry guy, I don't read any of your shit and I'm not reading through that entire thing to find relevance even now. Waylon's thread covered similar topics but much more briefly. I don't see the message board ever really dying per say, just becoming even more niche than it is now. Very close-knit groups of people, small boards with impeccable attention to details, and so on.

Just saying, I see it coming. Maybe not dead but pretty damn close so you guys should start picking up some new hobbies soon.