There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves.
I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.
You only have to go on a couple message boards to know what the fans want, and the fans want you to put it on the line and to entertain them.
I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.
Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.
It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.
I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.
At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.
