# Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members?

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 🥈 make a habit of sharing interesting conversations from SMDB to your other online haunts, wherever they may be, to attract new ~~victims~~ users

I won’t be sharing information on any other accounts because of posts like this and other off-board experiences when I have shared other accounts.

> [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/690):
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> Trust me, if I knew of fifty other fuckin’ boards that stupid officious pecksniffian little twat was blatting all over I’d bring it up on every one of them. AND link every one of them back here. Snotrag.

I know of a few other people who also don’t care to share their other personal accounts with others in public for a number of reasons.

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