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Absolutely this.henry porter wrote:Facebook already knows more about me than I want, I don't intend to voluntarily assist their in their collection.
If you're not paying for it, you (or rather, your valuable, salable personal info) are the product that's being sold to someone else.
Sweeperman wrote:This is how I feel on the subject . i posted this on the other BnG thread. Facebook is a threat to the RB forum, wake up and recognize the threat.
It's all about content.
The problem I see is "this is the board" of the BCCA, not Facebook, bing, instagram, periscope and all the other platforms that may be out there. If you are not a Rusty Bunch member, but a BCCA member this is your platform. The BCCA forum = The Rusty Bunch!!!! The BCCA had a forum and no-one was using it. In an effort to have a place were discussion could take place on everything beer can related we welcomed the entire club to use our site. The BCCA shut down their rarely used forum and linked to us. Now I see us following down the same path the BCCA forum went.....just let our members and others use Facebook and other sites without even a fight. I might even add with encouragement. We need to promote the BCCA forum, our site, as the one and only everything beer can site, period.idigrust wrote:Not sure how many collectors from this board are at B/G but a lot that are not on the RB forum are posting on FB.
Does anyone really think it's a good idea to have to jump between, Chapter websites, show websites, back to Facebook over to instagram and to the Rustybunch for discussion. It can all be done right here.
If a non-Rustybunch member wants to start a Facebook page to promote a show, we can't stop them, but we don't have to encourage them by providing content on their site/page.
Bring everything here, pictures, comments, everything and watch the other pages wither. Without the content on those sites everyone comes here. If not we risk becoming the old BCCA forum that no one uses.
Now I may have to make Facebook my daily routine instead of here.
If you only have time for one, I'd choose the RB, If you have time for both, even better !!! Better yet is if you have time for the other 20 beer related FB pages, really a ton of info out there.Sweeperman wrote:Well hells bells!! You told me to go to Facebook so I clicked on the F (Facebook icon above) and I'll be dammed, there may be more pictures and things of interest there then here!!!
The old BCCA did not evolve with the times. They tried to hold fast to the "old" way of doing things. THAT is why the BCCA has been steadily declining. You are proposing doing the same thing.......Sweeperman wrote: If not we risk becoming the old BCCA forum that no one uses.
Sea Monkey wrote:The old BCCA did not evolve with the times. They tried to hold fast to the "old" way of doing things. THAT is why the BCCA has been steadily declining. You are proposing doing the same thing.......Sweeperman wrote: If not we risk becoming the old BCCA forum that no one uses.
