I'm one of the fedwer people, almost to the point of noit posting at all. I dodn't state that as a point of dissrespect or criticism. Communities change. I know change is a four letter word to folkies, but change happensI check mudcat occasionally. , but usually don't see any threads I feel have anuthing to contribute to. The good news about mudcat is that it is tightly focused. The bad news about mudcat is, it's tightly focused. How much an person gets out of mudcat depends on their range of inerests.

For me Facebook is a much better fit. And nop,m people don't just post abour what they ate this morning. I can be me on Facfebook, which was far more difficult to do on mudcat. The nice thing about facebook is that if people are anti-religion, or hate anything electric, they don't have to read my posts. Friendship is optional. I'm also not much into to political wrangling (which is a major part of mudcat,) so I can just unfriend people who are diatribe-prone in a quiet, respectful way.

These days, I spend my time o9n www.talk music.It just fits me better. They are threads on every kind of music, including folk, and minds are pretty open. Ifr you're not interested in a particular type of music, you don't have to open the threads. That's true here on mudcat, too, but there are enough attack dogs on here thatopen aa thread just to be combative. That never happens on talk/music. Religionor the antagonism toward religion never surfaces on talk/music, while it's always been a raging part of mudcat. I don't preach what I believe, but I don't need to avoid posting any reference to my faith out of concern that I will be attacked by all the people who say there should be no preaching on this site, yet preach the superiority of atheism until the cows come home, are mild and asafely installed in their stalls for the night.

I still think mudcat is a good site, and deoes wqhat it set out to do very well. I havce many mudcat friends who are also facebook friends, so I don't feel completely disconnect. I still value the friendships I made here, and will pop in from time to time.

If you aren't anti-facbeook, "friend" me, so we can keep in touch, or drop by talk-music sometime, if you have a broader insterest in music.

All the best

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