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Non-Tulsa Discussions => Chat and Advice => Topic started by: Red Arrow on June 16, 2024, 11:49:30 PM

Title: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: Red Arrow on June 16, 2024, 11:49:30 PM
It's been quiet here for several days.  Everyone taking a break?


Title: Re: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: swake on June 17, 2024, 02:54:21 PM
It's been very slow around here
Title: Re: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: shavethewhales on June 17, 2024, 05:49:20 PM
Forums in general are dying. No one goes to individual sites anymore - they just check social media. Still, OKCTalk shows how it can be done. It takes a lot of effort though. It seems TulsaNow has been kind of just floating adrift for years now. The original crew that spurred this place to life are presumably long gone.
Title: Re: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: Red Arrow on June 17, 2024, 10:35:31 PM
Quote from: shavethewhales on June 17, 2024, 05:49:20 PM
Forums in general are dying. No one goes to individual sites anymore - they just check social media. Still, OKCTalk shows how it can be done. It takes a lot of effort though. It seems TulsaNow has been kind of just floating adrift for years now. The original crew that spurred this place to life are presumably long gone.

I don't do social media, too much invasion of privacy.  Might have something to do with being a Baby Boomer.  I don't miss some of the nastiness of the political talk but I do miss the more civilized stuff.  I belong to a cast iron (cookware) forum that is still active.  Maybe it's still active because of its specific subject.

I got here (on this forum) around 2008.  Many of those early folks are gone but the new generation has some good thoughts to discuss.  I hope that as the election nears, we can all keep things civilized.

Title: Re: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: dbacksfan 2.0 on July 27, 2024, 12:43:28 AM
Quote from: shavethewhales on June 17, 2024, 05:49:20 PM
Forums in general are dying. No one goes to individual sites anymore - they just check social media. Still, OKCTalk shows how it can be done. It takes a lot of effort though. It seems TulsaNow has been kind of just floating adrift for years now. The original crew that spurred this place to life are presumably long gone.

I'm still active in a forum that is very active but it is a specific forum for Mazda Miatas and it has been since the 90's. It's moderated quite fairly and has a large number of members and a good variety of topics.

I've been here for some time although I did have a blow up moment where I just got bent. I look in frequently since Tulsa is my birthplace and I still have ties to family and friends. My best friend who lives here in Phoenix I met in 1982 in Tulsa and we both tend to follow things there, he moved from the area in 1987 and I moved in 1998.

As for the rest of social media, I steer clear of most all of it, I read multiple news sites, but I'm not on X, Instagram, TikTok, Truth Social, or any of the others, just too much garbage. I haven't been on Facebook in two years, just some events left a bad taste.
Title: Re: Is Anybody Out There?
Post by: heironymouspasparagus on August 27, 2024, 06:43:34 PM
Nope.  Nobody here.

I would be if the Admin hadn't kicked me out of the group for some reason.   Now have to jump thru about 34.76 hoops to get logged on these days. 

I have been working with some estate medical bills though that have provided a tremendous insight into just how messed up our medical system is with Republicontins blocking meaningful change.  Final two years of final illness bills totaling just under $300,000.   With a remaining balance of just under $4,000.   Guess what they are doing?  Going to court to get that final drop of blood!   Of course!