Gothic BC

An article in the Vancouver Sun today reveals that a study funded by the European Union has found that Facebook is "not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried". The Vancouver Sun article cites an article in The Conversation, which it somewhat erroneously calls an "academic news site". In fact it is a news site that is written by academics, which is quite a different thing -- basically a news site with intelligent writers with journalistic integrity, unlike our old friends a Pacific Press. 

That said, the research cited was based on the data on teens aged 16-18 in the U.K., so while this is British Columbia, what's true in Britain is not necessarily true here. The study itself is ongoing and spans several different countries and looks at how regional usage of social media differs and there are some pretty big differences. 

The point to be made here is that when Gothic BC was started, it was really just a way to share my pictures in a pre-Flickr world. In the mean time the popularity of different sites has waxed and waned. We've got our original roots in Usenet, and ridden out the rise and fall of OneList, eGroups, Yahoo! Groups, MSN, LiveJournal, Flickr, and mySpace so far, not to mention local club and event websites that disappeared when the venue closed or the event ended. When Facebook eventually wanes in popularity locally, and whatever happens with G+, Twitter, Instagram, etc. we plan to just keep plugging along.

We're not the slickest, we're not the biggest, but Gothic BC is the living history of Goth/Post-Punk/Art-Punk/etc. for British Columbia and we want you to be part of that.