Where we are going? Laughshop Continues
Hello everyone! I’m writing this Laughshop article addendum on October 13th 2024, nearly 10 years after the below entry.
1st, I want to thank you continuous readers who have been with us for some 26 years, and welcome those of you new to our platform, may of whom are younger than Laughshop.com is!
You’ll probably notice some changes, the addition of Bucky as an editor, and the inclusion of videos on many posts. We have focused on Tiktok videos, largely because Bucky is on there, though not a heavy weight. He is also on Instagram, YouTube, Clapper, but we found that the climate of TikTok, the independence of the platform is more to our liking. However, we do realize that the ban of Tiktok is looming, we really hope that this nasty political move will faulter.
What had began in 1998 as a sharing site, with tens of thousands of users contributing regularly has nor become more a curation of funny, so as to not lose the funny stuff decades later. The internet is about right now. Gratify me now. Post right now. What’s trending, right now. But as a person who has always had an interest in the sociology, in history, right now is not all it seems to be. Right now is merely a reflection of back then, in many ways. So, keeping the gold of the past in a way assures a place for it in the future.
Going further afield in this train of thought, I must also bemoan the fact that the search engines have a serious blind spot when it comes to curated content. Back in the day you could find images and jokes that were timeless. Now, you deal with only the right now, what is it at this very second. So, we strive to adapt.
That’s all for now. 10-13-24
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12-20-2014
I have been the webmaster, owner, or whatever for Laughshop.com since 1998, and I’ve been giving the question of where we are going as a site some serious thought.
As you may have noticed we have changed the platform Laughshop runs on recently, so this is what, the 4th generation of Laughshop platforms? Something like that.
Laughshop has always been about amusement and humor, jokes, funny images, funny videos and so on. Trivia and recipes in the past were off-shoots.
In a way I have one of the best jobs in the world, I get to read and post funny stuff every day, and one of the hardest, because I have to try and winnow the “maybe this is funny” from the “unfunny” and the “omg this is funny,” while at the same time making sure the content is appealing to search engines like Google, Yahoo/Bing, a must for a free site like this.
Frankly I’m kind of tired of carefully posting items that the search engines will approve of all the time, working in a robot type fashion. We are a living, breathing human beings, and we have things to say, search algorithms be damned.
So on that note, when I ask where we are going, I want to add that what I have in mind is other topics too, things that we all can relate to, do in our spare time, about some TV shows, some sports and human interest type things. Things that are not necessarily amusing , but are part of how we as humans pass our spare time. A film review is a classic example.
Laughshop.com has always been about fun. that which we do when we, you, us, goof off. And yes, we all goof off at some point. Even when we don’t think we are goofing off we all, at some point, goof off online, be it at home or at the office. Sometimes that release is just what is needed.
So when you see us post something out of the ordinary, please be patient, no need to ask where we are going. It likely won’t be a doom and gloom piece, and no matter what the funny will return shortly thereafter. Better still, you’re always invited to participate in anything on here that you wish to, Â we very much encourage that.
Don’t get me wrong, we love tickling your fancy, and we will always aim for that, just that now and then we will surprise you, hopefully in a good way.
You’re always welcome here, to stay or visit.
So, yeah, there it is.
Have fun!
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