[Boatanchors] Facebook

[Mack Rogers]

Just me but somehow I have serious doubts about Facebook being crucial to the continuance of the vintage radio hobby. Anyone who wishes to fill their facebook page with vintage radio info is certainly free to do so.

N4VGB
Mack Rogers

 



--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Warren Elly <w1gud4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Warren Elly <w1gud4 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Facebook
> To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>, "Larry WA9VRH" <wa9vrh at dishmail.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 5:03 PM
> Not to worry Todd with the old
> buzzard attitude we won't have to worry about anyone wanting
> to continue our favorite aspect of the hobby
> The next generation won't be hearing about it 
> They don't even read  newspapers no less read qst
> It's the closed minds and anger among the old doggies 
> that narrows ones humanity and shortens lives 
> So be it. We will, despite them, continue to work to be
> relevant in a modern world and work to preserve the electric
> radios they chose to squander for themselves
> Heck, these are the same guys who fought computing and
> swore they'd never own one 
> 73
> Warren w1gud
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:54 AM, "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Alex Whitaker <ehscott at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Does that make it a bad tool for those who use it
> >> judiciously?...no.
> > 
> > There's nothing bad in any of it, it's all in how or
> why you use it.
> > I've found that simply reading one's Facebook comments
> tells volumes
> > about the person.
> > 
> >> FB kind of is what you make it for yourself. 
> It can be
> >> a tremendous time sink and an aggressive and
> shameless self promoter.....or
> >> it can be another useful way to communicate.
> > 
> > Precisely. You get to choose how to spend your time
> communicating: via
> > the WWW or via the airwaves. I've been a member of
> Facebook since
> > 2007. It's a very handy tool for finding old friends
> (social
> > networking). Beyond that, it offers me nothing that I
> didn't already
> > have (including ways to burn time). I have a
> throw-away email account
> > associated with it and have never had any issues of
> privacy through
> > using it. It works as designed, and as you say - it's
> whatcha make it.
> > (o:
> > 
> > ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
> >
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