beamer wrote:I see I woke some people up. LOLOL OK Amy soft point taken. (maybe I just miss seeing the old gang around as much as I used to.) I was doing that because some may not even care to look in the gadgets section since they are not into that, or maybe dont look in anything but the general chat room.
You know I still love ya right?
I also have a post to put up... SOON... that I think you'll like. It's going to be in the ELECTRIC section! (soon... could be days or weeks... I'm not sure yet)
In the mean time - I have a random completely off topic photo of an adorable creamy chick currently living in my house. Since I can't decide where to post her fluffiness, and I reprimanded you publicly for forums no-no's, I figure I might as well do one too. Cuz, yeah... us bad kids gotta stick together! SMILE! It's good for ya!
It'll get busier around here again. I'm sure of that! A LOT of people use Chordie just for what Chordie is, and they don't care about the forums. Like - a LOT of people! This site is actually REALLY busy. Maybe forums are going out of style. If that's what you mean by the "under 40" crowd. Yes, I think the younger peeps just aren't into forums. They don't get it, because they ARE using other social media and like the instant gratification. I'm barely hanging onto my 30's myself. My early internet days were all about forums and chat rooms full of strangers all talking on one specific topic. Even MySpace - the original social media website - used to function more like a forum.
<cue black and white photo filter and some hillbilly music> My first cell phone was a "flip phone" that I got as an adult and only used to make emergency type calls. I recall the first time I couldn't find a payphone and thought, "crud, time to make a daytime phone call and jack up my bill!" Ha ha - remember when nights and weekends were the only time you used the cell? When Jim and I were first married and he was working out of town texting wasn't a thing. I remember SNAIL MAILING him at the motel he was staying in. I sent a few photos of the baby (who is now 11 and has her first cell phone - SMART phone, a computer in her pocket) getting her first teeth. No one does that anymore. Now we would just text that picture, post it to Facebook and tag the person, or chat on skype with live video! OH - and I remember phone numbers with letters in them, and we had a "party line" at our house when I was a kid to save money. I remember when we got the TV with a REMOTE. It was HUGE - a whole 25" maybe. It didn't have rabbit ears or a tin foil hat either! AND, we got more than 4 channels on it! <end photo filter and hillbilly music>
I LOVE TECHNOLOGY! Times change, but I still love forums. Don't get me wrong, I like Facebook and stuff too. But, I love the slow pace of forums, and how I can say something (you know, write a book) then come back to view the replies whenever the heck I feel like it.
OK - so what do you want to talk about next?
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