What is old, what is new? When I was young I used to be on mIRC, for me that would be like today’s Facebook in a way. You did not have all the same features that you have on Facebook. But for me mIRC was a social place online back then. That was where I went after school, and I enjoyed it. Talking to my friends and playing games.
You had the different channels and different friends. You did not have a profile or a wall like you do on Facebook. You had your nickname, and the little information you would give out. Facebook have the chat feature, which made me leave all other communication chats. I hardly use MSN messenger anymore. The only other chat than Facebook I use is Skype, but only because I now live in Australia and I want to see my family back in Norway.
So mIRC is no longer what it used to be. The social network I used to have is long gone. I think it is a bit sad, that something you had for a long time, would just be forgotten when something new comes along. There was a long way from mIRC to Facebook though. I went through MSN messenger and MySpace before ending up at Facebook. So mIRC is more like an online chatting program then a social network such as Facebook, and could maybe be compared more to MSN messenger. But then again, in messenger you usually only chat with one other person, and on mIRC you talked to more people. So I would conclude this with that mIRC was what Facebook is today, for me anyway.
So what is the difference between the old and the new? I believe that Facebook is doing more to change with the time, so that people will not leave. As I wrote in my previous post about how Facebook changes all the time, I think they do this do keep Facebook going. I am excited to see how long Facebook will be around, and if it would be replaced and if so, what it would be replaced with. Has it already happened?
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