Re: Social networks  
    By: Hustler to Tech-D on Wed Jul 03 2013 21:41:36  
    
   Hu> Being Easy to find and navigate social sites like FB is primarily why  
  they  
   Hu> are so popular. I have many family members that use FB but I still  
  don't  
   Hu> use it much. I have no interest in looking at family photo's and their  
   Hu> post's simply bore me. I wonder where all these users were when BBSing  
  was  
   Hu> the only way? Still is in my opinion. Buth that's just me ;-)  
    
  I think there were simply fewer users.  Back in the 80s and 90s, far fewer  
  people had a computer, and many people weren't familiar with computers at  
  all.  
  Calling people on the phone, visiting in person, and I imagine scrapbooking  
  were all more popular before people started using Facebook and similar  
  social  
  networking sites.  
    
  As a side note, one thing I've noticed that I think is interesting is that  
  even  
  just 5-10 years ago, I heard many people say they didn't like (or didn't  
  understand) the idea of meeting a spouse online, but these days, I have the  
  feeling that that's how most people meet their spouses - on sites such as  
  match.com, eharmony.com, or perhaps just by random chance in an online game  
  or  
  chatting with random people.  
    
  Nightfox  
    
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