Question. I’ve been away for few years and only recently started chatting again. Apparently in my absence there has been a paradigm shift. Once upon a time, the Org chatroom was on and poppin’! Everybody who’s anybody logged on and chatted for hours. Now, I’m lucky if there are more than 3 people at a time in chat room. The abundance of messages that read: “X just posted ‘Blah Blah Blah’ in the Yadda Yadda Yadda forum” was my first indication that the winds may have changed. Has the hardcore chatter become obsolete? Are the Forums the place to be? Are Forum “Heads” or Forum-Ites, as I will now call them, the new superior race?

(note to self: Post #1…just 333,000 more to go before I am fully assimilated into this new culture.)

Wrong forum.

Regarding your question though, I don't know if people chat less and post in forums more, but I know I definitely prefer the forums. You can post at your own pace, the post will still be there weeks later so you can refer back to it, a discussion can involve lots of people in different time zones etc. I think it's the ultimate way to communicate on the internet.

the org has a chat function?!?

Anxiety said:

You're a mod aren't you? You need to patrol the chat more often, that way there'd be people there more often!

Trinity said:

Basically I think that the people you're talking about kinda grew up. They got "real" lives now, with kids, job and shit. They don't have the time or the inclination to chat online. At least that's how it feels to me, but I'm NOT saying people who DO chat here don't have lives.

Teacher said:

I'M A MOD?!?!

Anxiety said:

Sorry, I mean I am a mod. I seem to have misplaced my mod passwords on your desk though, could you just pass them to me?

Teacher said:

i'll get right on that!

I never chatted to anyone before.


I cant communicate through a keyboard, unless its through a music keyboard. I can play 1999/manic monday.

Teacher said:

I am in that chat room ALL the time

luv4u said:

I know, you rock! Not that I chat very often anymore, but I peek

thesexofit said:

You should try it, it might be fun!

Thank you all for the insight. I like to be in the know...

and Luv that's for putting me in the right spot!