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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