I think facebook and other platforms are eating a lot of what message Boards used to do for people right now. I do a lot of the socializing I used to do on this Board there, and elsewhere. But I still hope that some of the fans start spilling over into this board, because honestly, I have yet to find a facebook discussion anywhere that had any content and level to speak of - maybe I am looking in the wrong places, or maybe it's just a bit too easy to "like/ not like anymore" any kind of facebook page to expect extraordinary engagement you often see from Message Board regulars.

(I am still working on the "who do you add/ whom don't you add" netiquette. I discovered a relative or rather inlaw of mine I haven't seen in 15 years. Still, family. But I'm still somwhat shy of adding them. Hmmmm... Do you have some sort of personal rule?)

"Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kindischen Spiel." (Friedrich Schiller)