Facebook group

[prohandyman]

For those of you that use Facebook, there is a very active group of builders and campers on that social media site. There is numerous mentions of this forum on there but a good percentage of the users do not even know this forum exists! The interest and questions about building small campers has exploded again and they even have gatherings. The group is “DIY Teardrop Campers Community”! It’s pretty cool to see the interest continues for our hobby. A lot of the discussion on there is what we saw on this forum 10-15 years ago as a lot of builders were getting started.

[MickinOz]

I dunno mate. Forum seems reasonably active to me. There's an Aussie Teardrop camper page on FB, but it isn't all that useful. I reckon the support between Aussies is better here.

[eLink]

There used to be great forums on AOL, Compuserve and IRC too!
Just gotta roll with the times.

[gudmund]

don't and won't do Facebook.........................

[Modstock]

I left "fake book" years ago due to lack of security. My account was cloned along with lots of others.
Here is a much better crowd and oodles of info.

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[TimC]

Same as Modstock. Left Fakebook and don't miss it.

I get the online "social interaction" here and a couple other forums from some very awesome folks.

[MtnDon]

This forum is still more active than many others on a wide variety of topics. Facebook isfine for showing off what you did or are doing I suppose. FB is not too bad a place for a closed members group as a place to disseminate news about a group activity I suppose. But FB's search ability sucks. For learning about how others built their teardrop or TTT, and for asking a question about how to do something, it is hard to beat the traditional forum such as this one. On facebook, even if some previous poster has posted exactly what you want to know good luck to finding what you want.

And FB does anything it wants to with whatever information you let them have. FB is selling you so they can make money, lots of money.

[tony.latham]

The Facebook group is a good place to ask a question and get twenty-five answers. And frequently, they are all over the place.

The advantage that I see with this forum is that it's a huge searchable database for a builder. That and the build journals for the new guy to pour through.



Tony

[dogcatcher]

Facebook has it's good points, but as for as a "how to do it", nothing beats a forum like this. I am on several FB groups, one a lathe group, visiting friends is okay on it, but learning anything is a disaster. Another is a group of us that served in the same Unit in Vietnam, for us it is a FB daily bulletin board of how and what we are all doing. It is my first stop everyday, and several times a day. A couple of others are family history FB pages, I check it almost every day.

Tired of the drama, remove that person from your viewers. They won't know if you zapped them because you got tired of their "baloney". Security? I never post anything that I would not want anyone to see.

[tony.latham]

Facebook has it's good points, but as for as a "how to do it", nothing beats a forum like this. I am on several FB groups, one a lathe group, visiting friends is okay on it, but learning anything is a disaster. Another is a group of us that served in the same Unit in Vietnam, for us it is a FB daily bulletin board of how and what we are all doing. It is my first stop everyday, and several times a day. A couple of others are family history FB pages, I check it almost every day.

Tired of the drama, remove that person from your viewers. They won't know if you zapped them because you got tired of their "baloney". Security? I never post anything that I would not want anyone to see.

Dog:

I think that’s damn cool your old unit has that place to stay connected.

Tony


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[*Inside]

Facebook sucks as a long term repository of knowledge - try going back more than a few days to find information! I'm quite sad that most of my hobbies have moved to FB groups since it's such a poor platform for in-depth discussion.

[Sparksalot]

Facebook sucks as a long term repository of knowledge - try going back more than a few days to find information! I'm quite sad that most of my hobbies have moved to FB groups since it's such a poor platform for in-depth discussion.

Absolutely correct. The teardrop groups really can’t function the way this forum does. They’re good for pics and seeing what others have.

[GPW]

Facebook is great for Cat pictures , recipes , and idle chatter, and opinions of the uninformed … For Small Trailers ,and truly pragmatic information , THIS is it !!!