[AT] Remembering/now Facebook

[Carl Gogol]

I was not going to enter into this discussion (normal for me) , but Farmer 
Robinson has basically said what I have been thinking.  It is only we 
dinosaurs that are reluctant.  I have restricted my FB to under 30 friends 
and most are family.  If you don't fill your feed with things you like, FB 
tends to fill it with what it thinks you like.  Since I already check FB 
daily, an ATIS group would be a considerable improvement in content in my 
mind.  and the pictures would be a great enrichment of the experience.  I 
have only one other group membership and that is an alumni group from my 
very small grade / high school and its nostalgic value is tremendous and its 
ability to keep up with the events at home are unable to be matched in any 
other way.

I have no trouble accepting a transition to a FB oriented ATIS.  I also have 
no objection to ATIS staying as a mail list as I too am a proud dinosaur; 
soon ready to slip into the tar pits of time
Carl  Manlius, NY

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 11:19 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Remembering/now Facebook

I am VERY well aware of the gripes people have
> about Facebook.  There is certainly some justification for the most of
> those gripes but I guess I find the good outweighs the bad - signficantly,
> as far as I am concerned.
Forum or Facebook (or Google etc) will work either way but there is one big
difference... The young guys coming along are going to be on social media.

While we may
feel comfortable with email list we are basically dinosaurs already. We
have become like the old gentleman's club, sitting around sipping booze and
smoking cigars. Maybe somebody emits a "Harumph" now and then if someone
speaks...
:-)
At least on Facebook groups they might
get some new blood that has some passion.
(shrug)
Of course such things are up to Spencer, I would hate for anything to
diminish the ATIS identity. Without the ATIS Portland is just another
tractor show.

-- 

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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