Future of IRC

Anarchy · Posted: Jan 25, 2008 12:35pm Post subject:

to late...

Leroy · none Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

I know this thread has been around a while, but just thought I'd make a comment on it since it's something that my friends and I on the network we use have discussed several times.

I always thought IRC held its own against the likes of MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc. However, in more recent years the introduction of MySpace and Facebook seem to have left IRC in the shadow somewhat. These social networking sites seem to offer just about everything IRC can, as well as a few extra bells and whistles that appeal.

The comment I read about IRC being a generational thing I can also agree with. The "new" generation are automatically tuning their net time into these social networking sites, leaving IRC with the "last" generation of people. That's not to say there's no newbies on IRC, but in the bigger picture that's the way I perceive things to be happening.

I think there'll always be a place for IRC, mostly due to people like me and you, but from my experience alone I've seen it dwindle rapidly in the past few years, to an almost stagnant position.