Maybe it's just that the tribes that I joined are winding down...this one hasn't had much traffic lately, for example. And a lot of the other ones I joined had a few messages in the beginning but are dead now.

I don't really care about getting together with people in real life, for the most part; I just like to discuss common interests. I've tried to singlehandedly revive a couple of tribes, and created a few, but they don't sustain the momentum. Maybe my interests are just too limited. :)

Really? Ok, I'll take a look, thanks. I keep a newsreader around for accessing the binaries groups. :)

My experience is that over 50% of those who join any of these boards only join and never actually participate even one time.

I found Tribes in its first few months of existence and I made it my duty to contact every soul over 39 I could search out. I was amazed on how responsive and positive people are to join something when simply asked. For a while there was a core bunch here and it was a nice retreat from the 13 to 35 know-it-alls like my son's. I have long stopped recruiting and I get several requests to join this tribe each week now. I suppose it would be very helpful if all of you asked a few others to join as there does need to be a core active group that keeps the fire burning.

Unfortunately, boomers were not raised on PC's so we may never see our generation build a strong community on the web? My space is too much for me. I like debates on matters of things more important than what is happening on TV and in Rap music. It's funny because all of my now adult children have the TV going while listening to music, playing an interactive video game with a team of fifty people, and chatting in several text windows ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

What the hell are we creating?

Unlike many here, I would enjoy meeting real human beings once in a while for a beer or a coffee and to chat about some topic of interest or partake in some common activity. I am bored to death with text, but I sure have learned a lot about myself in the process of exchanging words on this screen. I have kept a copy of nearly everything I have posted and it is now 418 pages of text. Maybe it would make an interesting book in and of itself as I have debated with every type of personality on religion, politics, public education, propaganda, mass media, historical events and people, music, culture, and on and on.

I have to laugh when I look back on the stuff that flows out of me for example:

“I am starting to think that we should castrate any man who impregnates and deserts three or more women in his life and I am a liberal! Three strikes and no balls will be the slogan.”

An oddity about this tribe is that is a topic-free tribe in a topic based universe. Oddly there are times when people will complain when a topic starts to get heated and some people will say “what does that have to do with being happy to be over 39.” That makes we chuckle as the only point of this tribe is that you admit to being over 39, everything else is fair game and a lot about life over 39 is not 100% happy. Some younger folks have found there way in here, but I have never kicked anyone out. I did have to remove a photo of a penis once. That was funny too because one person said something like “if you must post a penis, at least post one that isn’t so small.”

The only way to make a tribe board work is for everyone to post and post and post….