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Speaking as someone who does restore and modify old cars I can say as a FB user that there are really no groups with any in depth practical help. FB tends to b
by olivermarks 11y ago
Speaking as someone who does restore and modify old cars I can say as a FB user that there are really no groups with any in depth practical help.
FB tends to be a 'look at the car I just bought' or 'look at the project I just finished' or 'the event I was just at' ego space. The vertical, model specific forums continue to be the place to go if you are diving into detail via searches of existing threads and people helping each other in response to specific questions and more importantly problem solving.
IMO FB tends to be the place to share the superficial, and to reduce sophisticated ideas to ephemera. A significant challenge on the internet generally and particularly FB is uninformed advice - youtube for example is full of parts life endangering how-to videos.
FB is more of a casual after hours clubby bar atmosphere rather than a serious forum in my experience, and i wouldn't go there for advice.
- dgudkov 11y agoFacebook is a social network for extroverts. I guess the spot for a social network for introverts is still vacant.
- guessbest 11y agoIt is really Facebook's own fault. The way their comment system is setup is awful compared to anything else out there, even Digg's version in 2006. And searching by page or group for a topic is just useless. It is just people's profiles, and pages aren't separated into subpages like forums are. Everyone I know uses forum software like phpbb or Wordpress comments to connect. Facebook is mostly just for family photos and baby pics.
- jarjoura 11y agoYou are free to create a FB group for more serious enthusiasts.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThat's pretty much precisely the problem that afflicts Google+ Communities as well. They're all but useless, with the exception of small, and usually private communities set up around a specific focus. For specific task-oriented project support, if you're not part of StackOverflow/StackExchange, it's pretty much old-school BBSes. I've also found blogs are quite active for discussion. "Social" ... is oversold, and actively kills multiple potentially useful categories. It does however point to massive holes in discussion and discovery across other platforms.
- thenomad 11y agoInteresting - I find the same thing is true of filmmaking groups. Facebook conversations tend to be very ephemeral - requests for help, "yay we got into X festival", etc. If you want in-depth discussion, you need - again - old-school forums or at a pinch Reddit.
- bigpeopleareold 11y agoI had the same experience: 1. I joined a couple FB group for American expats in the country I live in. I quit them both when I realized that most posts are people complaining about the people and food options here or pictures of their recent booty of American junk food. I joined with the naive assumption that people actually moved here with the same amount of enthusiasm I had when moving here. I was quite wrong. 2. I joined a gluten-free group along with my wife. We both quit when we realized that 95% of the posts were just people asking "is this gluten free?", with pictures of the ingredient list on the side of boxes. At this point, FB is a news aggregator for me and only keep the account just to avoid drama with certain people.