TubularBells wrote:I'd like to ask long you typically spend each day/week reading and posting on this message board. I'm curious to know if message boarding can be as addictive as online games.
Forgive me for asking ... But why do you, as someone who has spent exactly one post's worth of time on this board, want to know?
I've spent more time than that reading posts and smart remarks, too. Yes, Emmline, I'm involved in a research project that relates to how people use Web 2 technologies.
This site isn't a web 2.0 technology.
Or more accurately it shows how much absolute tosh the term web 2.0 really is. Forums/message boards have been around since BEFORE the web (anyone use local bulletin board systems in the pre WWW days?) so to now include them in this web 2 nonsense is just ridiculous.
Web 2.0 is just another meaningless buzzword that will soon disappear forever. Much like the sites it encompasses, social networking while fun for the end user has no business model and, like the other big web bubble 9 years ago, will soon burst as the investors slowly realise there's no return to be made on the vast sums they've plowed into these sites.
chrisoff wrote:
Web 2.0 is just another meaningless buzzword that will soon disappear forever. Much like the sites it encompasses, social networking while fun for the end user has no business model and, like the other big web bubble 9 years ago, will soon burst as the investors slowly realise there's no return to be made on the vast sums they've plowed into these sites.
Wait just a minute. I'm very close to launching Web 3.0: The Reckoning. If you take away the Web 2.0, that title will be meaningless, as will my next project Web 6.66: The e-Mark of the Cyberbeast.
Tell us something.: I play flute, whistle and harp and have been a member on this board for many years. I have tended to be a lurker recently and just posted a response for the first time in quite awhile.
I'm an active member of several, a frequent visitor to a few and a hopeless addict to two. Yes, I do still get work done and actually go out of the house on occasion.
anniemcu
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anniemcu wrote:I'm an active member of several, a frequent visitor to a few and a hopeless addict to two. Yes, I do still get work done and actually go out of the house on occasion.
Me, too. I'm only addicted to one now (this one). Do you mind sharing which other one you're addicted to? I was addicted to the ACMEPET/PETsMART boards for years and years and I even did moderating work, before they were taken offline.
anniemcu wrote:I'm an active member of several, a frequent visitor to a few and a hopeless addict to two. Yes, I do still get work done and actually go out of the house on occasion.
Me, too. I'm only addicted to one now (this one). Do you mind sharing which other one you're addicted to? I was addicted to the ACMEPET/PETsMART boards for years and years and I even did moderating work, before they were taken offline.
It's a homeschooler's controversial issues board that I've been with for a dozen years or so. Good friends and growth. I just have to go there regularly, as much as here, but with loads fewer boards to check.
anniemcu
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I'm not here now! 
