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Forum: General Talk
10-13-2018, 02:46 AM
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I'm not able to recommend any other photo forum, I only use this one, but I have other hobbies and activities and use other specific forums for those. There are loads. I would make the point that I believe it better to join forums which are specific to the subject rather than join a big corporate generic social media site, albeit with special interest areas.
I have been using the internet long enough to have used text-based Bulletin Boards, and then subscription Compuserve in its day. Compuserve (also MSN and AOL I believe) was a "walled garden" which aimed to contain "eveything you need", with interest groups, software repositories, an internal email system, etc and even had its own connection protocol and "browser". Then around the late 1990's people broke out of those walled gardens onto the wider internet with its millions of web sites. But then Facebook, Google Groups and similar others came along and basically revived the Compuserve model of one web site to contain everything, but financed by advertising and the sale of your data to marketeers, instead of subscription. So similarly to Compuserve 20 years ago, there are people using Facebook who never go to the internet outside it, or are afraid or even unaware of what is outside it - things have gone full circle.
However, with the likes of Facebook and Google Groups now crumbling it looks like the circle might be turning again.
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