Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

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Ken Andrews has started a West Coast Taylorcrafts facebook group for all to better keep in touch and from time to time have lunch together. The group can also be a vehicle to help each other out when needed but mostly to get to know each other better. Check it out..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/478360399041762/

[N96337]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

Why not just use the regular facebook Taylorcraft page? It'd be nice to keep it busy too....
Just wondering...
John

[astjp2]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

What is face book?

[skip]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

What is face book?

Facebook is a disingenuous scheme to make money off of the ignorance of Internet users.

Facebook markets itself to you, to me, to our neighbors, as a social media meeting place where we all can tell our deepest wants, fears, and other secrets to each other and the world. It tends to discourage the use of traditional internet links and surfing doing its best to keep the captive audience within the bounds of the Facebook system. Lots of people now use Facebook as their main internet interaction mechanism. One logs into Facebook and then never logs out leaving Facebook a window into any other internet browsing one does. And a big draw is, wonder of wonders, that it seems to be free!

However, Facebook's business model is that you and I are not customers or clients, we are the PRODUCT that Facebook markets to its true clients; the advertisers. Facebook has a massive and growing database of very personnel information about millions all over the world. Superficially, I don't like being a product sold to others. On a deeper level, I worry about the amount of privacy lost to a system like this. Have you ever purchased, say, some new underwear from Penney's web site without logging out of Facebook (difficult to find by the way, as they intend) and then wondered how all those different websites suddenly have banner adds for underwear of various sorts? The use of massive data mining of each individual's information for advertising is disturbing to me. The potential use by more malevolent groups is truly frightening.

That being said, and while I do not willingly use Facebook, I do have a login and my avatar picture is me and my Taylorcraft in the Utah back country. I do explicitly log out of Facebook after each (very seldom) use which is a recommended practice that few do. I have no intention of looking at the Taylorcraft Facebook page (whatever that is).

...or maybe I'm just in a fractious mood today...

[Guest]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

Skip,

Please, tell us what you really think, don't hold back!

LOL

I have to say that I agree with you about 100%.

I fear for those who put any actual real info on it.

I joined couple of years ago thinking that I could find old pals and send them messages but that didn't work out.

Dave

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

What is funny to me is I also got a FB account and it connected me to people I had lost contact with decades ago. MANY people I was in the Navy with, high school and old friends from KU. Amazing to see what so many have done in their lives. I should put in I always log in through a different search engine and only use it for FB. FB tends to lock up a lot.

Hank

[PA1195]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

We call it 'Faceplant'...for those that walk around with their head down staring their device (and little else it appears). But I suppose it has its place.

Gary

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Facebook: West Coast Taylorcrafts

I usually look at it while my wife is watching something I'm not interested in on TV. More things on TV are a waste of time than on FB (but it IS close). ;-)

Hank