Hi Elisabeth...

Many tribes seem to experience migration.. being busy for a time and members moving on to new ones (or remaining members and simply having concersations in the new tribes) .. I am in many "silent" tribes... do the tribes you are a member of have recent posts ?

Maybe if you put some of your interests into this thread - folk might be able to give you some pointers to related active tribes ?

The ebb and flow of the weekend is weird.. .sometimes quiet and it seems everyone is off having a good time or they only tribe from work (hehehe) other times it seems weekends are used as catchup time by folk busy through the working week... I was going to be active here tonight (my time) but just spent two hours on the phone - maybe everyone is on the phone talking to tribe mates rather than posting .. or else sleeping.. a lot of a lot of folk on Tribe are Americans and maybe they were asleep ??? Even Tribe addicted Insomniacs gotta sleep some time :)

Also - a lot of posts in my tribe list seem to be in "Private Tribes" ..

Anyway - Welcome to tribe ! Hope you like it.. I love it !

Bloke
Australia

The other thing is the change of season, of course. More people getting out instead of being computer bound. :)

But yeah, a lot of activity has moved into private tribes, which makes it tough for new members around here.

I think Tribe is a bit quiet actually. Not every tribe, but most of them. Even the ones that have some recent posts have very few responses to any new topic that is posted. I'd love it if some of the tribes I'm in were more active. I end up joining more and more tribes so that there is usually something to talk about somewhere on my list every day.

It does seem to have a bit of a psychological effect on me. I want more action in the tribes that interest me, and I feel members have abandoned their interests. Maybe not in their daily lives, but they don't write about it here in the way they are invited to. Some tribes have hundreds of members, but very few of those members ever post anything. I wonder how many members in most tribes actually visit tribe. There seem to be more inactive members (ones that haven't posted or altered anything in their profiles for more than two years) than there are active members in all but the newest tribes I frequent.

What can we do? Make the action ourselves. And look for the tribes that people actually contribute to. One way to do this is look at tribes that active members belong to, bookmark those that interest you, and then join later on if you find continued activity when you go back to look at them.