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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Chat - Non Pinball/coin-opp Discussion => Topic started by: The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan on January 03, 2011, 06:05:10 PM
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Not sure if this has been mentioned before, by why not start an Aussie Pinball facebook page? This could help bring new members to this site when they search for key words such as Pinball? It can also be good for all members currently on Facebook to keep up to date. I am happy to assist or start it off if the Admins think it worth while?
Any thoughts?
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I'm not really into facebook (just a personal thing), but if others are interested, I don't see why not ?
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Why not? I'm happy too if Dean wants to set it up. I do have a Facebook account for the business side of life, can't see an issue.
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Ok leave it with me and I will set it up. ^^^ No harm in trying to attract more members..
Dean
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great stuff Dean,gasgas face book is new and it's getting lots of interest,so I think your on a good thing.
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Ok leave it with me and I will set it up. ^^^ No harm in trying to attract more members..
Dean
Aren't you afraid people will find out your real name????
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Ok leave it with me and I will set it up. ^^^ No harm in trying to attract more members..
Dean
Aren't you afraid people will find out your real name????
Good idea, and there is already a section on here for revealing your real name.
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It may help bring in new members
(but many potential members do not like to have to register before they can sample the forum)
But as for discussion between current members, surely that is what the forum is for?
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It might be worth seeing if it is possible to aggregate some feeds from the pinball news sites at the Facebook page?
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I'm not into Facebook either. But I'm certainly not going to dig my heels in if thats' what the members want to do.
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I'm not into Facebook either
I reckon it is a decent idea.
I am not a huge FB user ( once a week look ) - BUT I did recently get back in touch with an old mate I had been 'searching' by all the old conventional methods for 10+ years, so for that alone I think FB is VERY cool *)*
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I dont use facebook at all. never bothered with it. After seeing my 18 yr old daughter showing off on it, with stupid photos and stuff, it was enough for me. @.@
HOWEVER, what about forum members upload a photo of themselves to the forum so we can put a name to a face.
Can the MODS suggest a place on the forum for such a photo. Maybe if thre was a link on the profile page, apart from the avatar photo.
ANYONE else think its a good idea ? !@#
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I dont use facebook at all. never bothered with it. After seeing my 18 yr old daughter showing off on it, with stupid photos and stuff, it was enough for me. @.@
HOWEVER, what about forum members upload a photo of themselves to the forum so we can put a name to a face.
Can the MODS suggest a place on the forum for such a photo. Maybe if thre was a link on the profile page, apart from the avatar photo.
ANYONE else think its a good idea ? !@#
I am proud to say that i will go to my grave having never joined,tried to join or even considered joining Facebook
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While I really appreciate the idea and thought put into getting more exposure for AP, I don't think Facebook is the answer.
Type "pinball forum" into Google and see what you get. We are top of the class! How would people find us on Facebook except via a link on AP's home page?
I'm just not convinced it's worth the trouble of setting it up. Besides, wouldn't it mean traffic gets diverted away from this site? Isn't that why this forum was setup? So pinheads could meet here?
Sorry to piss on the parade but I'm not convinced.
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I dont use facebook at all. never bothered with it. After seeing my 18 yr old daughter showing off on it, with stupid photos and stuff, it was enough for me. @.@
HOWEVER, what about forum members upload a photo of themselves to the forum so we can put a name to a face.
Can the MODS suggest a place on the forum for such a photo. Maybe if thre was a link on the profile page, apart from the avatar photo.
ANYONE else think its a good idea ? !@#
I am proud to say that i will go to my grave having never joined,tried to join or even considered joining Facebook
Im glad to see i am not the only one not interested in facebook :lol
My niece logged in to facebook while visiting me recently and showed me some other peoples profiles, etc. i too, having seen pics on there of my nephew looking like a freak, and some of the stupid crap people write on there was enough for me too, just ridiculous trivial crap.... Another of my nieces, wanted to set me up with a facebook profile, i sad NOOO WAY :lol
I think the forum member photo thing is not a bad idea.. would be good, as you say to put a face to the name.
hell i only know TWO AP members in person so far.. one i met thru AP and the other i persuaded to join.. maybe i need to get out and about more %.% %.%
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Facebook to me represents everything that is wrong with society today. No intimate face to face interraction, just trivial keyboard crap and everyone thinks they are friends. A friend of ours has over 300 Facebook friends yet only sees 1 or 2 people in his "real" world. What a joke! It really has taught people that personal interraction is no longer required in society. That it's OK to message or text someone rather than talking to them. The end result is we are breeding a generation of brain dead zombies who don't even know how to communicate with each other or their families. Kids who will struggle in the real corporate world because they are so different to the generation before them.
Do me a favour...Why don't you ask your 300 facebook friends to come around and help you paint your house or help you landscape the garden? See how many put their hand up. Yeah friends my arse!
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Couldn't agree more Tony
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There was an interesting documentary on SBS a couple of weeks before Christmas. It focus on a study of South Korea teenagers who spend more time online than any other country. Some kids were spending 18 hours a day. The experiment was to remove internet access for one week. The study found that most of these children already had developed anti social issues, anxiety and depression. The average age was fourteen.
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Although it looks like the facebook idea wont take off, any idea to encourage more exposure for AP is worth at least the discussion.
Creech is so right about the teenagers of today, their communication skills are so poor compared to when i was a kid.
When my father would take me to someones house or business, he would practice talking with me, teaching me how to introduce myself, word for word and how to look a man in the eye and shake hands like a man. Also, to do the same thing when we left and how to say it was a pleasure meeting you etc.
Today, when I speak to kids 18 etc etc for business, they rarely ever shake hands, look u in the eye, are never dressed appropriately, and usually have headphones in their ears playing while u r trying to talk to them. And when they speak, its a jumble of slang terms that u might text to someone on a phone etc, it really is different today.
I will raise my young son the old fashioned way, teach him to respect older people, see if i can get him into the Air Force as a young bloke like I did when I left school, and try n even up the numbers of men who are men, instead of young blokes these days with haircuts like girls, wearing feminine clothes, and all the rest.
FACEBOOK, not my cup of tea, cant see the reason to show off to strangers.lol It must have a valid reason for exsisting, i just havent learnt it yet !.lol @.@
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i dont mind FB
met alot of friends i lost when i met the old wife and also met the new mrs narf via FB
also stern have a page which is not bad to follow as gives hints and photos of upcomming stuff ect
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Although it looks like the facebook idea wont take off, any idea to encourage more exposure for AP is worth at least the discussion.
I agree, it is an idea that is worth a try
(Most of my freinds on facebook are already members)
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It has seven freinds so far, and is still VERY basic, havnt even added any pictures yet.
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Nothing wrong with Facebook if it is used in the right sort of ways.
Hopefully the Facebook page will eventually attract a few more new members to the forum: certainly no harm in trying as far as I can see.