Teacher Terry...

[happystuff]

Was just thinking about you and decided to post - nothing in particular, just wondering how you are doing. Hope you are well and having a good new year.

[Tradd]

Thank you for posting. I was wondering how she was as well.

[chrisgermany]

I might just have read something she wrote in a different forum under a different name.

[rosarugosa]

I might just have read something she wrote in a different forum under a different name.

Yes, I saw a recent post from her on the MMM forum, which was reassuring.

[iris lilies]

Yes, I saw a recent post from her on the MMM forum, which was reassuring.

it looks like she is attempting to break free of forum obsessions. I need to know how she does it. What’s the methodology!!???I coukd use that help.

[happystuff]

This is actually the only forum I am on. Never could get into MMM. I couldn't get the same sense of belonging there that I seem to get here. Guess I should say "Thanks" to you all for that. So.... Thanks! :)

[iris lilies]

This is actually the only forum I am on. Never could get into MMM. I couldn't get the same sense of belonging there that I seem to get here. Guess I should say "Thanks" to you all for that. So.... Thanks! :)

This is a smaller, more intimate place. I am definitely not an insider on MMM but I enjoy that crowd nonetheless, although the (blessedly infrequent) moderation makes major misteps.

There is one Reddit forum where I’ve been a member for several years and they make me laugh constantly. It’s a bunch of women who get together to talk about a specific Instagram influencer. I also read several other Reddit forums and often contribute.

[catherine]

My only wish is that we could attract more new members. I love the fact that those who are left here from the old Dave Wampler site and others who have been here "through thick and thin" really have connections above and beyond those you find on other social media sites and discussion boards. That being said, I would love to see more "new blood" to carry on the essential messages of Your Money Or Your Life. I know that maybe our insular kaffeeklatsch vibe could be a turn-off to new members but it has certainly been comforting to me.

[iris lilies]

My only wish is that we could attract more new members. I love the fact that those who are left here from the old Dave Wampler site and others who have been here "through thick and thin" really have connections above and beyond those you find on other social media sites and discussion boards. That being said, I would love to see more "new blood" to carry on the essential messages of Your Money Or Your Life. I know that maybe our insular kaffeeklatsch vibe could be a turn-off to new members but it has certainly been comforting to me.

I just made a post about long tenure on a forum to my local newspaper’s entertainment forums where I’ve been a member for 22 years. Participation in those forums has dropped off majorly.

I would say that forum participation over all of the internet has probably dropped a lot because this is not a popular way to communicate anymore. X/twitter fuels that need in some ways for making quick comments, but it doesn’t build community. The forums Still going strong on Reddit where I’ve been a member for years have insider jokes, common references, established wisdom. It is the kind of culture that is hard for newbies to break into.

Honestly, I find so much wit in so many of these forums. I just laughed out loud today at something on a Reddit forum. People can be very funny in their short quips. You could also get the pulse of a community on forums.

[Tradd]

There’s a big scuba forum I’ve been a member of since 2016. It’s been around since around 2000 or so, if not earlier. Membership has dropped a lot. It’s all gone to FB. The problem with FB is that you can’t really search for info you’ve seen in the past.

[pinkytoe]

I have moved a fair amount of my internet forum time to FB groups or reddit - mostly on regional gardening or local issues. Reddit has some good frugal groups too. NextDoor has turned into a place to beg for money or report missing pets that owners can't seem to keep up with so it has lost its usefulness to me. I continue to come here because I know by now many of the stories that all the regulars here have dealt with in their lives and made them human, ie an online family of sorts.