Internet homeless.

[wdomburg]

In the before time, my digital home was on the local BBSes, including my own. Then I discovered the internet and followed my brother to an IRC channel. After that my now-wife introduced me to a mailing list I frequented for years but never really felt part of the community. Later, I followed Nisha here, re-converging with some of the same people

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[aelf]

I share these feelings.

I miss IRC.

[wdomburg]

I'm still on IRC, even though my original haunts are essentially ghost towns. Some still have conversation during certain times of the day, but even the semi-active channels seem to be winding down. (Though technical channels still seem alive and well.)

Sad, but unsurprising.

[koshmom]

Actually, I am welcoming the DISappearance of over-sharing that was so overpowering in the earlier days of LJ. So LJ has become more substance rather than high traffic about almost every topic under the sun. That seems to have moved to twitter, and let it stay there! Quality over Quantity rules, in my book!

[wdomburg]

I don't miss the abundance of polls and memes and general noise, but far too many journals have gone completely dark. No noise, but no signal either.

[staxxy]

<-- still here.

also on G+

sort of around FB. but not as much. and the 'tub group on FB is pretty active.

[wdomburg]

I saw the resurgence of activity a few weeks back, but FB is annoying enough I haven't been back there much. And I gave up pretty quickly trying to talk on their awful chat interface.

[jexia]

I know exactly what you mean. Some of the parenting groups run friending sprees for just that reason, and I have found some new, active, enjoyable friends that way.

[wdomburg]

Generally speaking, I'm an awful friend, and thus awful at making friends. :)

[NOTE: By awful I mean that I don't put much positive effort into fostering and maintaining friendships, not that I abuse, malign or gossip.]

[elf_fu]

Google+ dead? Holy bejesus--I have 10-20 people adding me a day and my damn home stream is so crazy I cannot keep up. I think I have about 400 people in my circles and 400 people have added me. I stopped counting!

The problem with Google+ is that you have to add people, you have to post a bit to your stream, have a profile and a pic--most people don't add people who don't have any of these things.

It's like Facebook used to be in the beginning: you had to look for people, add them and be active.

[wdomburg]

I'm not really looking to find new people; just keep in touch with people I already know. So far it seems relatively few of the people I know bothered using it past the first few weeks. Lately I'll see gaps of days (and sometimes over a week) without any content, and even then it's usually a cross post or link to another medium.

[elf_fu]

Ah!

Might be the way they are using circles. A lot of people have many different circles and I know I tend to post my geeky stuff to my geeky circles, my SWTOR stuff to that circle and so on. That means anyone not in those, can't see what I am writing.

But, yeah, I could see that if you only have a select few that aren't posting much. Otherwise, google+ is very much on the whole not dead :p