Nah, you're right. I have similar conversation with Babs every so often on AIM (I'm so out of touch. Do folks not use that anymore?) about trying to get people to comment on NOTR. They rather just tweet their twat directly to him about an article.
There's also reddit. Outside of the memes some folks hold actual conversations. There's no real community though. The days of forums like this are long over.
But yeah, I can't hold a conversation to save my life. I basically talk with only two people on a daily basis.
....I did respond though. Added content....yay?
What did we use to talk about? Games? I don't play them anymore so I have nothing to add. In the old days it was all about upping your post count. That's what got people to post. On reddit you have karma. I still don't get twitter.