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#30

John Passaro said:

I know Radder is kidding, but I admire his take, and sheepishly admit it applies to me a lot of the time, “I obviously have a problem with net usage in general.” That’s the looking into the black hole feeling I started this conversation out with.

No, not really kidding at all. If I spent half the time in my workshop as I do 'butt modelling" I’d have all the rolling stock I could ever use at little to no investment. My post count per day has gone down quite a bit n the last few years. At one time, when I was full time at the real estate developer I had enough free time at work to post several times a day on 3 or 4 websites. I’m now cut back to this one and Facebook, but still spend way more time then I should in front of a screen. Alt least, being older, I had a good 30 years before the TRS-80 Model III started eating up my time.

#31

Jon Radder said:

John Passaro said:

I know Radder is kidding, but I admire his take, and sheepishly admit it applies to me a lot of the time, “I obviously have a problem with net usage in general.” That’s the looking into the black hole feeling I started this conversation out with.

No, not really kidding at all. If I spent half the time in my workshop as I do 'butt modelling" I’d have all the rolling stock I could ever use at little to no investment.

Mee too.

My post count per day has gone down quite a bit n the last few years. At one time, when I was full time at the real estate developer I had enough free time at work to post several times a day on 3 or 4 websites. I’m now cut back to this one and Facebook, but still spend way more time then I should in front of a screen. Alt least, being older, I had a good 30 years before the TRS-80 Model III started eating up my time.

Oh yea, I learned assembly language programming on the Trash 80. And I still have my CoCo, but I haven’t turned it on in years.

#32

Huummm Facebook you say.

Rooster does not do such as you must first unlearn what you learn from it. Great Amtrak G scale modeling is found within ones self and LSC not this Facebook you seek.

The dark side controls the cookies you store through Facebook .

Fear the darkside and what it offers.

Do or Do Not there is no try!

Master Yoda and LSC have taught me well!

This post has been edited by : Rooster because I can

#33

You should know by now that Photobucket will NOT let you link to other web sites. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

#34

This IS Rooster you are talking about Joe (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)

#35

Joe Zullo said:

You should know by now that Photobucket will NOT let you link to other web sites. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

Maybe, that was his point!

#36

Farcebook? or Twitter? …no thanks… so much to do…so little time left!(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)

#37

I’m not sure why Facebook gets such strong reactions (either side), but then what do I know?

I view it a few times a week, just to see what people I know are doing. I have found that Fluff Busting Purity helps keep it “clean”.

I still prefer forums for the ability to FIND reports that are over a day old.

#38

Add another vote here to FB Purity. Cleans FB up a lot.

One thing we have to accept is that the younger generation IS using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. We can’t grumble in one breath that its hard to get new blood into the hobby, and in the next breath say “What’s the matter with a good old phone call?” or similarly dismiss out of hand the tools that the younger generation are using to communicate with.

#39

That’s why I said;

That said. I can see where any form of communication can be an asset, or a liability, depending on how its used.

If we want to communicate with the younger generation, then we need to be able to communicate with them. If they communicate mostly on Facebook, then we need to Facebook too.

#40

This forum and others like it are better for real conversations about stuff and are better for getting reasoned answers to complicated questions.

Facebook is good for seeing photos and videos of people’s trains both in model form and the real deal.

#41

Bob McCown said:

Add another vote here to FB Purity. Cleans FB up a lot.

One thing we have to accept is that the younger generation IS using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. We can’t grumble in one breath that its hard to get new blood into the hobby, and in the next breath say “What’s the matter with a good old phone call?” or similarly dismiss out of hand the tools that the younger generation are using to communicate with.

I personally don’t care about Facebook only LSC. As for the younger generation they don’t care about it either. If they wanna play with model trains they will do such. The younger generation has moved on to other apps because their parents have taken over their domain and wrecked it !

This post ahhh never mind

#42

Actually if you ask young people today (ages 12-30) Facebook is ancient. They are all on Snapchat, Instragram and Reddit. According to them only “old people” use Facebook…

And this comes from the guy that tries to teach these young ones…

#43

I Agree with Rooster and Craig. Younger folks are moving away from Facebook. More time on Snapchat, Instagram and Reddit. Oh and Tinder.

#44

As an ‘old person’ - not very well versed in the ways of the internet - I thought it was time I joined FB as another way of comunicating with my friends and seeing all the great content on the various train and modeling groups.

All went well with the somewhat complicated (to me) sign-up process and I was duly registered with an account. However, I then got an email asking for me to provide a telephone number as a security check and because there was no mention of the requirement for a phone number in the initial invitation to register - I declined to provide one.

From a quick google search, it seems this is a significant problem for a number of people and there are several sites that will provide a ‘fake’ number to satisfy FB requirements.

So - since I’m not happy with providing something that is fake - my account was disabled without my ever having posted anything at all.

Now the funny thing is - FB keep sending me emails telling me I have more friends than I think on FB and that I should import my email contacts to get in touch with them!

Oh well - as others have said - maybe FB’s time is passing and I should look for some alternatives?

#45

Bob McCown said:

We can’t grumble in one breath that its hard to get new blood into the hobby, and in the next breath say “What’s the matter with a good old phone call?” or similarly dismiss out of hand the tools that the younger generation are using to communicate with.

Communication…

Was in the local library and spotted a new book on the New Books rack

"How To Communicate with the Younger Generation"'

I picked it up…Woman next to me said

“Don’t bother…do what I do…Just grunt back.”

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#46

Craig Townsend said:

Actually if you ask young people today (ages 12-30) Facebook is ancient. They are all on Snapchat, Instragram and Reddit. According to them only “old people” use Facebook…

And this comes from the guy that tries to teach these young ones…

Each and every one of those forms of communication IMHO fall into ‘Instant Gratification’. In 30 seconds or less it is old news. There is no ‘staying power’ to any of it. IMHO all the forms of ‘Social Media’ are nothing more than the old "Party Line’ phone lines of old…except these are huge multi-national ‘gossip channels’. I find Facebook, and all the others to be very shallow.

It is interesting that the company I work for put out a company policy that they preferred folks not to involve themselves in Facebook (this is back in 2006), it was considered a ‘Security Risk’. I believe that over time their evaluation was proved to be valid. I have never had a Facebook account, and never will. Listening to my children and grandchildren who do only affirms my decision to not get involved. The down side is that one of my sons will not use email to sent photos of my grandchildren, only Facebook. That is my loss, and I accept that. That same daughter-in-law NEVER LEAVES FACEBOOK. If you are having a face to face conversation with her, she will interrupt the conversation to post on Facebook.

Bob is correct in his evaluation that we do need to communicate on their lever, however for some of us it is extremely difficult to be that shallow.

#47

For me, FB is just a way to keep in touch with family and life long friends. Share our activities and pictures of our cats doing stupid things. Kidding and joking around with each other.

I tell my RR buddies, both real and on line, if they want to be “Friends”, that is what they will read if I accept the friend request. If a family member gets carried away sharing stuff, I

simply “unfollow”, or once in a while, “block”. Lately my brother has been interested in my train activity, so I started to post vids and pics regarding that. Other family members think it’s cool.

That’s all FB is for us, an electronic reunion of sorts.

#48

Craig Townsend said:

… Facebook is ancient. They are all on Snapchat, Instragram and Reddit.

Reddit isn’t ancient? It has been around and open for public use at least as long as Facebook, maybe even a year or more longer.

#49

Forrest Scott Wood said:

Craig Townsend said:

… Facebook is ancient. They are all on Snapchat, Instragram and Reddit.

Reddit isn’t ancient? It has been around and open for public use at least as long as Facebook, maybe even a year or more longer.

I think what Craig means (and the way I read it) is Facebook is ancient in the eyes of the younger generation. Reddit is one of the new places to hang out.