Message boards in general have significantly died down in popularity with the rise of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. TWW is no different.

People are much more inclined to connect and spend time online with real friends (Facebook) or people who they admire/share common interests with (Twitter) than interact with assholes who they have nothing in common with and can't have a legit discussion without being belittled.

Face it folks, TWW is dying a slow death. There is no influx of new people happening anytime soon. Not gonna happen.

The only new folks that come are those who want to see what this is like, only to wish they had their $5 or their 5 minutes of life back.

While not new news, it's important to come to terms with reality.

That is all.

1/4/2010 11:58:26 PM

most of TWW hates twitter

1/4/2010 11:59:14 PM

i almost posted something very similar to this earlier

1/4/2010 11:59:40 PM

TWW will be reborn at the appointed time, just as the prophesies predict:

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1/5/2010 12:01:08 AM

It's the end of the world as we know it

And I feel fine....

1/5/2010 12:01:23 AM

[old]

1/5/2010 12:01:29 AM

cool story, bro

1/5/2010 12:02:14 AM

TWW is good for the things you don't necessarily want to share with your circle of friends, such as, how many times per day do you poop etc.

1/5/2010 12:02:27 AM

this site isn't allowed to die, not until NCSU is no longer a college.

1/5/2010 12:02:53 AM

this site will never die.

1/5/2010 12:05:02 AM

we have the technology

we can rebuild it

1/5/2010 12:06:51 AM

but at some point, it will become as visited as partyheels.com

1/5/2010 12:06:52 AM

nobody bothered to rebuild partyheels.com

1/5/2010 12:07:40 AM

all of the other crazycode sites had no loyal user base.... in fact most of the other crazcode sites had core userbases built from tww alts.

1/5/2010 12:08:50 AM

the southTWW shall come again

1/5/2010 12:09:21 AM

yeah everyone, myspace is gonna take over the internet
you cannot stop the train, you can only try and jump on

1/5/2010 12:10:38 AM

i will be pulling for you fred

1/5/2010 12:11:04 AM

We'll get our bailout from the feds soon.

1/5/2010 12:16:38 AM

Quote :

"most of TWW hates twitter"

1/5/2010 12:18:39 AM

I'm really tired of facebook
but tww has never lost its appeal, nor have other message boards that thrive more than this one

1/5/2010 12:21:02 AM

Discussion of local issues, various topics(unlike narrowly focused boards) and a small degree of anonymity are a winning combination.

1/5/2010 12:57:46 AM

Quote :

"share common interests with (Twitter) "

I've got to believe that a bunch of people who all went to the same school, with a similar education level, a lot of them from the same state, and around the same age have some common interests.

1/5/2010 1:01:48 AM

I enjoy torturing and eating small animals.

[Edited on January 5, 2010 at 1:03 AM. Reason : I also enjoy long walks on the beach and a small degree of anonymity.]

1/5/2010 1:03:03 AM

1/5/2010 1:16:17 AM

just don't put any pictures of burning animals in your gallery or P Cousins will rain on your parade

1/5/2010 9:55:27 AM

New users join TWW all the time; it's just that the old users are too busy jerking themselves off to notice.

[Edited on January 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM. Reason : V what I meant to say]

1/5/2010 10:00:21 AM

or each other

1/5/2010 10:02:09 AM

1. TWW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>facebook>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>myspace>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>twitter
2.

Quote :

"people who they admire/share common interests with"

so the vast majority of TWW users don't have common interests... you're telling me these other sites are a better discussion medium? well, facebook, myspace, and twitter all suck as message boards... because they're not message boards... and message boards aren't going away. and the user base here does share common interests:

- college students
- ncsu students
- trolling
- technology
- recent events
- goatse

1/5/2010 10:07:07 AM

^ agreed, message boards that are independent from a social site are always better (expect maybe Steam).

1/5/2010 10:07:53 AM

TWW will live on. This place has been going strong since what, like 1998 or something like that? How many sites/internet things have stayed successful for that long? Even AIM is rarely used anymore, and I used to use it every day of my e-life up until about 2006. I think the key to TWW is that it doesn't try to fix what isn't broken. Shit like Facebook is constantly changing and whatever, but TWW is familiar. Also, even though I've never met 95% of the people on here, I still feel like I kinda know a lot of them. It's like an e-family. TWW HUG!

1/5/2010 10:17:51 AM

I only meet TWWers to make deals

1/5/2010 10:20:11 AM

i don't use twitter. i guess i'm too old to get it. i use facebook, but it in no way resembles or has the same function as a message board. there are 23409827347238 forums on the intarwebs with so many special interests that i really don't see that ever declining. did you find that written somewhere?

we don't need new people. we have enough of us old folks and aliases to keep us entertained. if tww relied on new people to survive, it would have died a long time ago.

as long as tww exists, i will be here.

1/5/2010 10:21:09 AM

mostall of TWW hates twitter.

1/5/2010 10:30:11 AM

Twitter is underestimated as a news source and given the fact that I spend large parts of my day away from a computer, television, or radio it has become a significant source of information for me.


comma however


I will readily delete anyone who posts random crap about their day I don't care about and I really only send out interesting news stories I've found.

[Edited on January 5, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : there, I said it, I use and like Twitter as a news feed.]

1/5/2010 10:34:05 AM

Twitter is obviously for fags, just look at the name. Sounds like shitter.

1/5/2010 10:35:01 AM

i know over 200 wolfwebbers

on twitter

Quote :

" I will readily delete anyone who posts random crap about their day I don't care about and I really only send out interesting news stories I've found"

bingo. i think tww could use a dose of this flexibility too.

[Edited on January 5, 2010 at 10:51 AM. Reason : not to mention a recommendation system to elevate the good stuff to the top]

1/5/2010 10:49:44 AM

people have been saying this for years

1/5/2010 10:53:01 AM