Huge FB car groups with no-one using them
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Not FB, but forums just die. There was one years ago, www.british-cars.co.uk which would have 100s of post a day (it was mainly Lotus). There's nothing left of it.
Also, I posted a lot on a Nissan GT-R forum. Before CV it was quite active, maybe a 100 posts a day. Now it gets 1 post every few days.
As to why some forums just die, I've no idea.
Also, I posted a lot on a Nissan GT-R forum. Before CV it was quite active, maybe a 100 posts a day. Now it gets 1 post every few days.
As to why some forums just die, I've no idea.
What usually happens with Facebook groups is they splinter off into smaller groups.
So years ago when I was involved in the SEAT Cupra world, you had SCN (SeatCupra.net) which was huge and then Facebook came along and we had a SCN group.
Then it started splintering off into Leon and Ibiza groups, and then it would splinter into MK1 Leon and MK2 Leon etc and then you would get a breakaway Scottish group etc. and all the groups die off eventually.
So years ago when I was involved in the SEAT Cupra world, you had SCN (SeatCupra.net) which was huge and then Facebook came along and we had a SCN group.
Then it started splintering off into Leon and Ibiza groups, and then it would splinter into MK1 Leon and MK2 Leon etc and then you would get a breakaway Scottish group etc. and all the groups die off eventually.
That's a good question. With the Ford models that I was involved in, before the internet you had to belong to a physical owners' club to ask other guys for advice on how to fix things, where to get parts, etc. Then in the 90s and 2000s there were model-specific web forums, and later these gradually more or less died out, replaced by specialist Facebook forums.
So if Facebook is now 'only for old people', where are people going now for that info? I imagine it's quite hard to find how to change a vacuum modulator on Tiktok? Maybe today's car enthusiasts aren't so into fixing stuff, and newer cars are harder to spanner in this way too, but surely people need somewhere to share their information.
So if Facebook is now 'only for old people', where are people going now for that info? I imagine it's quite hard to find how to change a vacuum modulator on Tiktok? Maybe today's car enthusiasts aren't so into fixing stuff, and newer cars are harder to spanner in this way too, but surely people need somewhere to share their information.
Granadier said:
So if Facebook is now 'only for old people', where are people going now for that info? I imagine it's quite hard to find how to change a vacuum modulator on Tiktok? .
Who needs tiktok.https://www.google.com/search?q=How+do+you+change+...
And I am old.
The world leaves formats behind. The MLR ( Evo forum ) was a magnificent resource when I joined it in 2004, but it's almost dead now. The info and knowledge on there would have left Mitsubishi dealers scratching their heads, full of knowledge and wisdom, but those places just disappear as time goes by and those who leave don't get replaced in the same numbers.
I regard FB as quite modern by those standards. Showing my age!
I regard FB as quite modern by those standards. Showing my age!
Frimley111R said:
LRDefender said:
georgeyboy12345 said:
Yes. Only old people use facebook now
This ^^^^Facebook is viewed as being old fashioned, clunky, out of date but convenient for pensioners and the like.
Isn’t Instagram and Facebook owned by the same company?
Also people like to find the newest and latest whizzy thing so I expect there’s a plethora of platforms us oldies have never heard of that all the kids love and use constantly.
Additionally peoples lives change and they find new interests, have less time or just drift away. I have quite a few friends that were full of life and enthusiasm but now do very little with the precious spare time they have.
I also suspect that the rise of populist politics and short video clips have captured many of the hard of thinking attention spans. Who wants to involve themselves in making Facebook posts when they can listen to a populist politician raging about why their viewers lives are terrible and woke, small boats & immigrants.
In the 80's and 90's it was either club meetings if the car you had had an active local group, or monthly club Mag, or other publications but mostly just a haynes manual and guess work. In the 2000's you had some good model specific forums, and a few good, more generic forums, like this one for advice. Since about 2015, you just google the question and end up watching a youtube video.
As an amatuer it has never been easier to fix cars.
As an amatuer it has never been easier to fix cars.
It's the ongoing ens
ttification of the internet.
Despite this being a time where it's easier than ever to generate and share information, all of it will be lost to future generations and this period of time will be devoid of information to future historians. We've already seen vast amounts of knowledge and information lost when a site is no longer viable or the owner no longer wants to run it and it's shut down.
We have stuff on disk and tape that can no longer be read or recovered and it's only going to get worse.
Electronic storage in proprietary formats = future data black hole.
ttification of the internet.Despite this being a time where it's easier than ever to generate and share information, all of it will be lost to future generations and this period of time will be devoid of information to future historians. We've already seen vast amounts of knowledge and information lost when a site is no longer viable or the owner no longer wants to run it and it's shut down.
We have stuff on disk and tape that can no longer be read or recovered and it's only going to get worse.
Electronic storage in proprietary formats = future data black hole.
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