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Facebook slowly strangling this site?
bobbbbsy:
i did nt even have to think about my decision .
Gnarlyscoots:
The trouble with Facebook, anybody can open a page and call it something BMX related. Once they have done that, they invite everybody from the other pages. Before you know it, you have a large number of pages in your group list which you can spend all night looking through. When someone posts on one page, you get to know about it. You go take a look, before you know, the night has gone and another night wasted away from this Forum.
Jono:
Since no one wants to say it, I will, that horse has bolted . Maybe shutting down the fb page may have worked once but there are others skyway mans and some bloke off Facebooks to name a few. Without the fb page you would be foolish to believe that people will just come on here instead, it won't happen, they who prefer fb will just use the other sites instead . It would be great if we were all on here, but closing the sister page to this won't make that happen the Facebook page should be an advert for the forum bringing more to the page and closing it will send them to the other pages where radbmx will never get mentioned,in fact more likely discouraged and slagged off, ironically I found this page when forum went down 18months ago and fb page started and if it wasn't for the fb page I would never have found this site and had it wasn't there as most of you want I would probably never know about it. If people aren't using this page. I much prefer it on here but the fact is losing rad fb will make no difference at all. I'm just saying it as I see it so please don't shoot the messenger
griff:
For those of you not on Facebook
The vast majority of people that have voted say they use both
Out of the few people that say they only use FB, one of them was a major sponsor of MK (mr Porkchop) and another has pledged to give the forum another go
Jono made a point about how he wouldn't have found the forum without FB (well maybe he would, but probably not as fast)
I stand by what I've said, the best thing people on here can do to make the forum better is to simply spend more time reading & posting, you're not going to make the place more attractive or welcoming by deleting a Facebook group. Nothing will stop me from coming on here but as long as the FB group continues to run I'll do what I can to let people know there's a proper forum here full of useful info and top blokes
Jono:
And if more votes are cast on this subject than are cast on everyone's hard work building bikes for botm Then that would be a real shame and may be the real problem right there we all have posted photos and comments on hear and seen 100+ views only to have 1 or 2 comments maybe site supporter doesn't just mean paying a tenner and more paying attention to others inputs too
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