I'm referring more to entertainment type communities for fans of certain games, movies, and TV shows. Maybe it's the ones I frequent that have ended up becoming so boring, but I just find that in general, the online world is not that enjoyable any longer.

Personally, I'm not a happy chappy at the moment, so it could be that's the reason why I've now just conjured up my feelings of unrest, to moan about on here. However, that cesspool we call Facebook is steadily replacing forums, which in turn sort of declined the popularity of chat rooms, and real life conversations are now not as common. The latter is kind of worrying. What the hell did people do to get involved socially before the Internet and mobile phones existed in such a major capacity?

Years ago, Resident Evil message boards for example were chock-a-block with new facts. Users who religiously followed this franchise began submitting opinions daily, and quite often, insiders exposed nice wee secrets, so the more decent members would be willing to thank them. Folk that helped out for no financial profit would be credited, and we the fans would discuss the hell out of a debated subject, but have fun doing it. Hence the term 'hot topic' which is rarely used nowadays.

Half the time, I find that despite how good my punctuation is, no one replies to any of my threads in this sad era, unless it's to point out something they would refute as a fact. Many weeks go by now with so few updates. Years ago, it would only feel like a few days or hours would drift by where the forums would be empty. Now that isn't really the case. Other than that, it's now more or less the same old debates over and over again, which makes the boards appear like they are run by total amateurs. I'm surprised people are saying (in 2016) that Jill Valentine has a nice peachy arse or something just as silly, because it's very immature.

Trolls have ruined the fun side of forums for me. There's not really any new members on the forums I visit either, and so I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time. Even the so-called 'veterans' have occasionally had to confess that people grew up. People may have busy lives now. Games probably don't matter as much to these people any more, so they may have stopped visiting the forums altogether, or just lurk. Like, people may sign up and contribute a few comments here and there, or register an account in order to view a part of a forum that may be invisible to guests. Otherwise, where is the activity?

That in itself may be a sneaky ploy to try to gain more active members, but usually people will just browse for some new information, and not contribute anything at all. I'm also not fond of seeing posts with two word replies, when their avatars and signatures are already the size of Godzilla and King Kong combined. I'm not saying these privileges should be disallowed, but there has to be some rule in place regarding the length of a posting, and overly large signature banners, or flash images should be omitted.

People shouldn't make everything 'too long, didn't read' either. That's kind of annoying. That I get. But to make posts with only short statements like 'laugh out loud' over and over gets rather stupid.

I also think social media is toxic. For example, how many of these apparent "friends" on Twitter, Facebook and all that shite do you actually see in person? It's as I've already said: I see no point in social media as a whole, unless people actually use it to meet others who want to be a real friend, co-worker or romantic interest. I've lost count of how many times I've deleted Facebook accounts because the idiots that go on there dishearten me.