I didn't bother with the facebook thing mainly because I didn't have that much time for it. Sean set me up with an account years ago and it just sat dormant. Since I retired, Sean helped me wake it up since I wanted to try and make contact with some old friends and it is an easy way to stay in contact with family and friends. Since I have been active on it I have found several groups I have joined covering all of my model airplane interests, vintage dirt bike interests, and some full scale groups regarding Reno Racing and aviation history. After experiencing it for two years now, I have seen NOTHING that compares to the knowledge and information that is archived here on Stunthanger or what was lost when Stuka Stunt went away. I REALLY fail to see why anyone would ditch this site for any facebook group. The political discourse that happens now and then really isn't that bad, and it usually is restricted to one thread because that's where the action is, and you can take it or leave it as you should CHOOSE, but if you observe, things quiet down after a while and everyone has had their say. We do have our characters here but that is just humanity. What I have really noticed after two years as a member of several facebook groups relating to several disciplines that I am interested and participate in, there are far, far, far, more "Keyboard Kommanders" and "Internet Heroes" over there than there ever have been here!! I started out just trying to answer peoples questions that I knew I could help with or make a comment about something that I know is correct, and some of the guys over there are just WAY to full of themselves to even want to hear an idea or an opinion from some one else!! I have gotten to a point where I just answer less and less. Even on here I'm no where near the most prolific poster there is. I have been building and flying all sorts of model airplanes for a long, long time and flying competition for almost as long, and have learned a thing or two, and I like talking about models almost as much as I like flying them. When I think about it, I know a very high number of the members here from going to contests and reading the model magazines over the years. Some I have not met in person but still seems like I know them from reading about them and what they have written. From what I have seen so far on the facebook groups, there are many that I wouldn't care to know!! It's obvious to me , just going from my personal experience and practices, that most of the "Top Contributors" couldn't find their own ass with both hands and a road map!! I still log on and skim through it just for the nugget or two if information I might pick up, and after participating in the activities that I have over the last 30 years, have made some very good friends that live all over the country and even the world, and it's a way of keeping in touch with them, helping them or they helping me. I don't intend to give that up any time soon now that I have gotten used to it. I really haven't had any issues with it so far. But I sure as hell don't think it's superior to Stunthanger and don't understand how some see it that way. And as far as PAMPA trying to mine facebook for new membership and people of interest, I think they will be disappointed in that effort.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee