Curiosity And Cats

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I haven't posted on this blog very much. I initiated it to save the name. Coin Of The Realm used to be an e-mail discussion group that I owned for 4-5 years. It never was a big hit as a discussion group, but I liked the idea of people being able to discuss any topic that crossed their mind.

I suspect discussion groups about people's interests lost steam when social groups like MySpace and Facebook and Twitter came on the internet scene. I didn't really understand why until I read an article in Wired.com that confronted the possible reasons e-mail discussion lists failed.

My problem in understanding why the interests groups failed is that I guess I didn't really understand the groups were based on common interests. Maybe people only find certain topics interesting to a limited degree, whether they know it or not, and then when they've taken these interests as far as they can, it's over for them, and they unsubscribe.

The odd thing to me is that many subscribers to e-groups is that many of them are lurkers, and never intended to contribute much. I've never been much of a lurker so I wouldn't really know. If I don't feel like participating or a group starts getting heavily moderated, then I simply unsubscribe and look for other interesting groups. I can still do that if I get bored, but it's come to the place that it's difficult to find other groups to flee to. They're all dead from a lack of interest in their own personal interests.

Investigating to find out if the real lack of interest lies with me seems tedious. It may be that if such is so, it started when I began keeping blogs. I suspect that my real interests are about writing to contemplate my own life, and I merely used the e-mail discussion groups to facilitate my hobby of trying to describe my drifting thoughts with words.

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