Yes, I still use IRC virtually every day. But I can’t remember the last time that I had an off-topic conversation on there (that wasn’t a personal, one-on-one conversation). It’s almost as if everybody leaving and going to the social networks made things less-banal on IRC! I’ll tell you what, it’s certainly made things quieter!

That said: the idle chatter was never the major reason I left Facebook, anyway! (I still read people on Twitter who mostly post bollocks)

I guess I’m just an old fogey who pines for the days when the Internet was just a place for geeks to hang out, before we started letting these normal people onto it!