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Attention The Rise of the Lurkers

I'm lurking in this thread right now! (well, not anymore I guess :p)

EddMarkStarr said:
So if I read you guys correctly I joined JUB after it jumped the shark. Wish I could go back a few years and spend time with you guys and the legendary JUBers gone by.

Based on my online experiences from 2003 to 2005, maybe the web itself has jumped the shark. The activity profile noted by NotHardUp1 may be the notice that newer web users view legacy sites like JUB as a curiosity - look but don't reply.

Since 2012 I've heard many webbies proclaim the future of online is "face to face", where online is just a formality to personal hookups. But I don't think so. "The Lurkers" may indicate users wanting additional degrees of separation - not the future some expect.
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I sort of feel that way about modern internet too.
 
Seems to be that forums are going by the wayside. Everyone wants Facebook now. I was on Facebook but deleted my account about a month ago.
 
dpnice said:
I must admit that after 10 years here I often feel that I don't have anything new to add. Especially when the subject is something I have already replied to.
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I have limited time each day. For the most part, I don't get out to the main Forum page or even a particular topic home page (e.g. Hot Topics, etc.) I spend most of my time on here working my subscriptions - Fun & Games, Gay Stories, and some HT. I have to agree with David; While I am a regular and repeated poster in some threads, in others I may go in to contribute my 2 cents to a particular thread, then I may revisit to see what others contribute, but unless there's a new thought of some significance, I've already contributed what I can, so I just read to stay abreast, in case.
 
There is a good deal of repetition in the topics discussed, and some members may well think that as they've already had their say on a particular topic previously--perhaps many times previously--there's insufficient reason to do so again.
 
Lurkers are not inherently bad - newbie lurkers may be checking us out to see whether they want to become more visible or not.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
...If we follow the "JUB ain't what it used to be" line of thinking, then one would expect less viewing, period. Instead, we see a huge rise in lurking.
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How so? It seems that the idea of JUB not being what it used to be would account for the lack of posting and increased viewing..... Simply because as people enter a thread to read it they are turned away from it for that very reason.... The threads just aren't up to the same par that they once were, or maybe its the greater infighting, or any other variable that has "brought down the quality" of threads...... Seems That if JUB were what it used (or better) to be there would be fewer lurkers and more posters.
 
For as long as I've been here, people have been complaining that JUB isn't what it used to be. Yes, there were some great regulars in the good ol' days, but there were plenty of trolls and assholes as well. We have a tendency to romanticize the past.
 
LilBit said:
For as long as I've been here, people have been complaining that JUB isn't what it used to be. Yes, there were some great regulars in the good ol' days, but there were plenty of trolls and assholes as well. We have a tendency to romanticize the past.
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That.

When I joined JUB, loud dramatic public "I'm Leaving!"s were pretty much a once a week event. With everyone polarizing into sides about being glad/being sorry they're gone or being for/against the reasons they left.

I doubt HT was ever the main visit count attractor of JUB, it's more likely that a fraction of all the people who hit the JUB site would get curious about something in HT (or elsewhere) and wind up posting. And it's a lot more reasonable to assume that the reason the net is pulling in less fish is because of tumblr and the million other ways people can get what they used to come to places like JUB for in a single hop or search.
 
Paul brings up another change in the forum. We DON'T see the "I'm LEAVING" threads any more. I think that signifies something. Maybe it's just been done to death, and maybe the imagined online ties are looser now.

And for the record, I'm not so much on the "ain't what it used to be" bandwagon. However, I am intrigued by the changes in online behavior, and how it has any implications for the so-called "gay community."
 
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