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Making Social Media work for dinosaurs; Facebook, or Pinterest, or Reddit, or...
Topic Started: Aug 29 2016, 01:55 PM (1,447 Views)
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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I like the feel of paper in my hands.
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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Jonathan
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Graham Boak,Sep 3 2016
04:46 PM
The guy was totally convinced that everyone in the future was going to be sending multiple copies of audio cassettes around the world

And he was right - except these days we call them "podcasts".

He sounds like a farsighted guy, I'd like to think he would be embracing technology rather than trying to resist it like technophobic King Canute.
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Jonathan
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To use a kit analogy, this a like watching a bunch of people stumbling and complaining over a Hobbyboss easy build kit as being "too complicated".

I remember an Alan W Hall editorial in which he was railing against desktop publishing and how quicker things were with a scalpel and spraymount - except he was writing that in the mid 1990s shortly before SAM went down the pan and had to be rescued.

It also reminds me of why I got into writing 26 years ago because so many modelling articles and photography hadn't moved beyond Airfix magazine in the 1960s. That's why Fine Scale Modeler was such a breath of fresh air when compared to the pipe smoking stuffiness of the British magazines.

But hey ho, it would be boring if we were all the same and the hobby certainly would not progress.
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Sorry we are too stupid for you Jonathan.

btw King Canute did not try to stop the sea. He took his deck chair down to the beach to prove he couldn't hold the tide back, because even as king, he knew he was not all powerful.
A nice lesson in humility
Paul from Birmingham, UK
Now living in Barnsley.
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Big Kohona,Sep 3 2016
11:09 AM


FB and social media are dead - or they will be, just a matter of time.  The next best and even better, no, SUPERIOR thing is right around the corner... just you wait and see... :lol:


You may well be right. And so it goes. I left usenet behind when it became hopelessly anachronistic. I have LARGELY left forums behind (not completely but there's a definite linearity to my decreasing use of them) , and in the here and now I use social media to meet those needs because it does meet those needs in ways previous media simply couldn't.

And you know what? When and if something even more effective than social media happens along I'll be happy to make the shift. When something offers a one stop shop for both modelling generalities and highly interest specific media access I'd be stupid not to. But for now Facebook is that place (note - most kids have left Facebook behind for more immediate social media platforms already - the kids see Facebook as fuddy-duddy territory, the place their parents try to be cool).

If people don't want to use it then fine, no harm no foul, but when companies are finding the single easiest way to communicate with their customers, you are in a tiny minority in refusing to use it for largely specious reasons. But, your choice.
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Flying Sailor
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Personally I much prefer Friends Reunited.
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Jonathan
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walrus,Sep 4 2016
07:17 PM
Sorry we are too stupid for you Jonathan.

btw King Canute did not try to stop the sea. He took his deck chair down to the beach to prove he couldn't hold the tide back, because even as king, he knew he was not all powerful.
A nice lesson in humility

Nah you're all alright. ;)
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