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We are currently in the middle of Facebooking, and pulling hair out while posting updates and hitting like buttons.
On one hand a lot of the features are things I've been wanting for quite some time, and didn't have in my previous guitar forum. We're placing a lot of emphasis on accumulating likes to our gear pics and witty comments.
On the other hand it's a pain in the ass to carve out entire nights/weekend days dedicated to looking at images of gear piles. They're all starting to run together.
Going to have another look in five minutes. The dopamine rushes are better than Adderall. Wish me luck.
I can't stand FB. If I could never use it I would be happy but my business is reliant on their goddamn reviews and so I suck it up and use their garbage.
clipless bumper wrote:Who is 'we' - you have followed dave to the dark side??
no just flapping my wings.. will get through that window if I try hard enough.
redeyes wrote:I can't stand FB. If I could never use it I would be happy but my business is reliant on their goddamn reviews and so I suck it up and use their garbage.
agreed I hate it too. I deactivated my account once but had to go back for business. Still have vowed never to spend a penny on their advertising.
I check that shit many times a day and don't even want to. dumb slice of life observations, kid pics, and political rants.
I have never even checked the place where the forum rejects go.
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
I am only on facebook because of my band... it's been good to us as a band, we got a lot of likes, gigs and music sales through FB.
But personally, I hate it and avoid it as much as I can. The exception is the "Groups" feature, I am a member of a few groups I like, including the GAB closed group Dave runs. That is always fun. I also love the JCA group and a few others. They're pretty much like forums in a way, except that is way harder to search for older posts and find actual useful information. It's very ADD-ish...it's about what's happening right this second then it's old news quickly. But because of that format, they tend to move super fast, which is cool. But I prefer the regular forum format still.
But the "social media" aspect of it, I can't stand it. I recently went from having almost 2000 "friends" there to about 350 people I actually know and like. Not to mention I unfollowed everybody but a few guitar and owl groups.... much better.
Guitars: '78 Les Paul Pro / '89 SG Special/ '04 Gibson Les Paul Classic 3 pickup / Jackson Star/ Endres Tele / Fernandes Rhoads/ ''74 Hohner MIJ strat/ 2 Partscasters
Amps: Depends on when you ask. I got tired of constantly updating this section lol
Cabs Marshall 1960A w V30s/ Seismic 2x12 w Redback and V30.
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GuitarBilly wrote:I am only on facebook because of my band... it's been good to us as a band, we got a lot of likes, gigs and music sales through FB.
But personally, I hate it and avoid it as much as I can. The exception is the "Groups" feature, I am a member of a few groups I like, including the GAB closed group Dave runs. That is always fun. I also love the JCA group and a few others. They're pretty much like forums in a way, except that is way harder to search for older posts and find actual useful information. It's very ADD-ish...it's about what's happening right this second then it's old news quickly. But because of that format, they tend to move super fast, which is cool. But I prefer the regular forum format still.
But the "social media" aspect of it, I can't stand it. I recently went from having almost 2000 "friends" there to about 350 people I actually know and like. Not to mention I unfollowed everybody but a few guitar and owl groups.... much better.
I agree on all of that. I had a "I"m getting rid of the app" moment this weekend, and my girl says, "what would you do without the GAB page? You couldn't do it."
I used it WAY too much before the original GAB group got nuked, after it got nuked I wasn't invited back and haven't been on it 1/10th as much. It was really liberating. I'm on it a little more now just for some random updates/see what's going on with family where that's my only real contact.
