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Making Social Media work for dinosaurs; Facebook, or Pinterest, or Reddit, or...
Topic Started: Aug 29 2016, 01:55 PM (1,449 Views)
RexTN
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Accidental CAG
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FB does have one advantage over forums set up like Hyperscale.

That is that even though the latest entry goes to the top, and the replies to older things stay down in the post's location, with FB you just pull your mouse down and and the page gets longer. You don't have to click page after page until you find the convo you were in (knowing in the back of your mind that no one is clicking to page 5 anyway)

Scalemates is set up to both "bump to the top" and "make the page longer",,,if there is a setting that would do that on FB, you'd be golden.
yep, one of each USN squadron

http://hangardeckview.blogspot.com/
http://z15.invisionfree.com/Hangar_Deck_Re...dex.php?act=idx
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walrus
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The other thing to remember is that you can save posts you find interesting, so if you need to refer to it later you don't have to scroll past miles of posts to find it again.

The save function is listed in the drop down by right clicking the "v" arrow on the top right of the post.
Paul from Birmingham, UK
Now living in Barnsley.
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jbank
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walrus,Aug 30 2016
08:56 PM
"You just ain't right, Paul."

You mean you don't get a mental image and just let it run for the fun of it?
For the love of Groucho, what's wrong with you man! :ph43r:

While I really like the Marx Bros work, I much more a "Harold Lloyd" man preferring the visual to the verbal.
Life is too short for poor kits.
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walrus
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Not attempting Lloydesque stunts for the camera must surely attest to my sanity and put the question well beyond any doubt!

Paul from Birmingham, UK
Now living in Barnsley.
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jbank
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Damn! I was trying to give you a challenge.
Life is too short for poor kits.
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Botan
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If somebody is starting to using Facebook, I recommend this: LINK
Posted Image Krzysztof T. (Poland)
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Greenshirt
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That was pretty good, Botan.

Tim
Tim Holland

I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea.

http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/
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dixieflyer
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Botan,Sep 2 2016
09:18 AM
If somebody is starting to using Facebook, I recommend this: LINK

I'm subscribed to them, great group of folks, and too funny.

Warren
"History is the lie we all agree upon."
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Jonathan
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In all honestly, I'm struggling to recognise the Facebook I use being described here. I am just genuinely amazed that something that is so user friendly is causing people so much grief.

I hate to sound so harsh, but I'm reminded of dark age church scholars describing the stars and planets to astronomers - they don't understand it so they just make it stuff to fit their world view and narrative.

Some of you aren't going to get Facebook nor want to use it - fine, I get it. 1.71 billion people use Facebook and the more that resources, reference, news and information starts shifting towards it, don't complain that "that's not fair because I don't use Facebook".

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walrus
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If you hate to be harsh, then don't be.
Not everyone is equally as savvy as you or Drewe, nor is Facebook perfect.

Since you are both fond of the Mediaeval monastic metaphors, some of FB's features are a pain in the cloisters and as irritating as a hairshirt.

Praise the Lord for FB Purity which dispels some of it's evil spirits.

Te potest variari milia passuum
*incense*

Paul from Birmingham, UK
Now living in Barnsley.
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Big Kohona
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Greenshirt
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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Reminds me of the (ancient) days of Mac vs PC. When screens were monochrome.

There were other OS out there at the time, some better, some easier, some more powerful, but the masses were congregating around the two and it was about equal. I wrote a paper on it for my Masters studies, and the short version is that neither is bad nor good. They just work different for different minded people.

If a person's brain is wired to naturally use iOS based apps, then an iPhone or iPad will be their preferred device; conversely if Android supports their thinking processes, then it supports them better.

I've used an iPhone or iPad for 6 years, and during that took a break to use android for 2 years...no choice at the time...couldn't make it "work" for me. My brain isn't wired for it. But some things were better...just not enough.

Bringing this back to FB...it's a form of social media different from a forum, allowing a bit more privacy or openness, dependent on user settings. Structurally it works for some, not well for others. There is no inherently "right or wrong" about.

1.7b? It's a wave approaching the beach; it will rise to a crest then crash violently to nothing at some point. Every fad does...some take longer than others.

Tim
Tim Holland

I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea.

http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/
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Vladimir K.
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Big Kohona,Sep 3 2016
11:09 AM
  Seems to me that a whole Country thought that National Socialism was the way to go... remind me, just how did that work out?

You know, arguing on the internet using nacism references is like 1936 Olympics: even if you win, it's still Godwin :D
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Botan
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I did not expected that Godwin's Law will find its usage here in this thread :wacko:
Posted Image Krzysztof T. (Poland)
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Graham Boak
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Four-five decades back, I used to produce an amateur sf fanzine. Typed onto waxed paper, then run off on a rotary duplicator - anyone else remember those? I was accosted in the Globe by an enthusiast who insisted that my way was doomed because of new technology. It was, of course, - although the technology that killed it was still two decades away, then. No, what was going to kill paper fanzines was the audio cassette.

The guy was totally convinced that everyone in the future was going to be sending multiple copies of audio cassettes around the world.

Before the usual detractors appear, I do have a Facebook account which I mainly use for family reasons. As far as modelling goes, I am a member of the Cromwell group, but that was because it was the only way to get an up-to-date list of their products. (This, as it turned out, was the same time as they abandoned producing and selling kits in 1/76, "my" scale, but that's not FB's fault.) So far, I get sufficient guidance for my modelling practice for books, magazines, and the the rest of the internet outside the FB box. Should this change so that FB becomes indispensable to modelling, then I'll change. Until then, I don't have an infinite amount of time to spend on my hobby, so adding another fuzzily-organised information stream is not a priority.

Hmm. Modelling magazines. Aren't they something else that enthusiasts proclaimed was going to disappear in the new electronic wonderland? It seems that the future hasn't arrived there, yet, either.
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