On Saturday 06 August 2011 19:59, Di Maloney ([email protected]) opined: > There have been posts about Mr Google not behaving very good. I don't > use Mr G but still have had limited number of posts. > A couple of quotes: > A lot of listers also have facebook, maybe they are busy with that. > Its been the same on most lists for a couple of years now. > Barb > > You could be right Barbara, > I have a FB Group that has been rather busy of late. (Australian > Genealogy) > Carolyn > > People don't have to ask these days for look ups, as in the past - so > much > is on line courtesy of Google, Ancestry, the various state archives, > cemeteries and so on. > All the lists I'm on have slowed down to almost nothing, whereas 12 > years > ago when I started family research, my Inbox was bursting every day. > My thoughts anyway. > Denise > > I'm inclined to agree with Denise - and add that whereas in the past > we relied on each other for assistance and advice, these days the > sites such as ancestry mean we no longer have to get other people > involved - > we don't have to mingle - we don't have to share anything - we just > get on with it - in isolation - .which is pretty sad really - > (snipped > remainder) > cheers > Robert > > It has been suggested that people are going over to Facebook. > > I don't like Facebook so won't be going there. > > Di > "Wes Groleau" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] >> Has genealogy been declared illegal, >> or did I somehow screw up my killfile? >> >> -- >> Wes Groleau >> >> There are two types of people in the world . >> http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1157 I'm more inclined to believe in the cyclic nature of usenet in general and the geni newsgroups in particular - although usenet is no longer the vibrant exchange it was even 10 years ago. Groups'll go gang-busters for a while, folks will pause to digest and there'll be an "unnatural" silence, then something new will spark a new round of 'cussin' and discussin'. As well, given that - in the US, at least - July and August are the months in which most people take their summer vacations, it's not surprising that things are relatively quiet. I expect things will return to what passes for normal shortly after (US) Labor Day. Swelterin' Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine