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bucolic_frolic

(51,560 posts) Sun May 16, 2021, 04:48 PM May 2021

Is the internet dying? [View all]

Seems to me that traffic has lightened up on just about every site I frequent, even DU. eBay I can't find what I'm looking for. Twitter is fading. Maybe America is fatigued from 4 years of MAGAt lunatics? Or is it back to work and life?

I'm puzzled too .... plenty of jobs but no workers, yet the economy is still not fully recovered. Lagging spending but inflation? And not as much travel to work as 2019, for example, but gasoline use is down and prices are up.

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Is the internet dying? [View all] bucolic_frolic May 2021 OP

I'm not sure about the "internet" but eBay has been in decline for many years nt Shermann May 2021 #1

FeeBay is comatose, a moribund skeleton of nonsensical rules and obligations bucolic_frolic May 2021 #11

I bought something on eBay the other day milestogo Aug 2021 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author milestogo Oct 2021 #14

The internet is more than the web. RandySF May 2021 #2

It's spring, there are vaccines, people might be venturing outside soothsayer May 2021 #3

IMO, the internet is the main conduit of commerce and communications. Eyeball_Kid May 2021 #4

I've always felt that the Internet was a passing fad. :) nt Binkie The Clown May 2021 #5

* Snork * Scrivener7 May 2021 #7

No joke. Binkie The Clown May 2021 #10

That's a dumb question. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #6

check this link from the 90s d_r May 2021 #8

Thanks, I needed that back then bucolic_frolic May 2021 #9

I think one reason internet use has faded is the cancelling of many of the propaganda and ShazamIam Jul 2021 #12