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Have carried on looking around. Went back to have a look at one board that is related to another board I used to be a member of a long time ago. It was a political board, related to a magazine, that the magazine eventually closed down because they didn't have the staff to monitor it and it often used to get rather out of control. People who know me and those who've been with the blogs a long time will know which it was ... lol!!! My brother found out that the board had closed when he heard it being discussed on the radio.

I'm not surprised that it went in the end. There was a pecking order there .. everything they used to say they disliked about society in relation to their political stance they used to play out on the board. It was a very weird set up and if the movement needed any bad publicity they could be sure of getting it there.

Though having said that there were a few nice people there who used to try bring a bit of sanity to the place but never got anywhere. Eventually the magazine closed it down.

There were a few of spin off boards from the mother board. One run by someone I liked, so I joined that, but didn't stay long, because, for all her trying to make it something different from the original board it soon disintegrated into more of the same and another board was set up. There were other boards I posted on a bit too but they didn't stay active for long either.

Anyway .. went back to the spin off from the main one ..TP .. today to find that it had virtually ground to a halt. Nearly all these people who had spent all these years .. there had been another forum some of them belonged to connected to a political organisation which also closed its boards because it couldn't spare people to monitor them .. were finally going their separate ways. Some had drifted away earlier but I still thought that, given all the years these people had known each other, that there would be feelings of closeness and bonding and that people would want to stay in touch ... but it seems not.

There were a mixture of all ages, though very few people had really young children, but that seems to have changed a lot and some do have young families now. But, really, I'd've thought that the children could've created more bonds between people who'd known each other for so many years.

I do remember one woman saying that the only reason she was there was to talk politics and that she wasn't interested in the social side of being there. Well, OK .. and people do drift in and out of your life over the years but, I don't know, I just didn't expect it all to end up like this. Some people had met of the boards too. I was really surprised when I saw the dates of the last posts and reading back found that people had just drifted away.

Strange to see the board go.