So I was reading xkcd and it made me think about /. so I wandered back over here and starting poking around. Looks like 8 or so friends still post journals. Not like it was years back when I was checking for new stories or JEs all day almost every day. I find it funny that as the "social web" has grown into a mainstream.-even-my-parents-are-on-the-web,-jocks-too,-and-now-celebrities-hire-companies-to-manage-it thing, I've found less and less satisfaction with it.
My main social group these days revolves around a 4X game on facebook that a coworker got me to try out. I think I honestly crave the anonymity of the old days (like /.) and a game with a pseudonym and a forum fits that bill pretty well. Plus the fact that it's a semi complicated sci-fi strategy game keeps it relatively nerdy, which is my preferred company. Though of course there are the self described jock types in the game who resort to homophobic slurs when you cross them. I think the /. trolls inured me to that, so thanks trolls!
Feeling really nostalgic right now though. Can still remember many of the old Circle posters usernames off the top of my head and I have a terrible memory for names...
Moo (Score:1)
I feel similarly.
I won't touch FB though.
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it has been a while (Score:2)
the circle came apart a long, long time ago.
of course whenever the latest site redesign gets implemented you should drop in to check that out - it's going to be a doozy [slashdot.org].
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I have opposite problem re: /. usernames (Score:2)
Nowadays I know most of the Circle by their real names, and have trouble remembering their /. usernames. D'oh! :P
-MT.
(Alan Ralph)
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Raises hands (Score:1)
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I post just to get thoughts out. Comments are an added benefit.
If not for that, i'd never post. :)
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'm pretty sure i posted a JE on that point, but i can't seem to find it just now.
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