FACEBOOK is killing good forums

[Buckle&scream]

can't stand face book either, that crap pisses me off, so much bull on there! feel much better since Joining fishing vic, a lot of obsessed fishos on here haha my type of people!

[Finnigan]

I always wonder about the posts on facebook if reports of multiple bags of snapper being caught on Frankston pier LOL. The number of poor naive people that rush down at midnight mid-week to Frankston pier to find its dead as ever. And don't even get me started with fish weight and length arguments. I like to think the people who get started fishing will start on FB and end up here once they get a tad more serious

[ducky]

Jesus a lot of hate for facebook. I love it with a passion. Take it for what it's worth. Have a bit of a **** stir. Have a few private pages or messenger groups so you can chat with mates or share **** in private with a select group. It works a treat.

[ThomasG]

Im another NON facebooker.... BUT....to each his own.

[fishingvic]

The answer is Facebook is NOT killing good forums. Forums will always be here.

The OP has somehow found Fishing Victoria.

If you want quality information, go to a specific niche forum.

If you want non substantiated rumour or instant gratification go to a Facebook Group.

Within a Facebook Group, it's hard to keep track of posts. There is no search function! Anyone can set up a Facebook Group. They are not well moderated and conversations quickly deteriorate from my experience.

[mingle]

FB is more for bragging, talking crap and simply wasting your life...

A proper phpBB forum, such as this, is far, far better - as admin says; try finding a specific post that was made a few months ago on FB, can't be done...

I used to have an anonymous (made-up name, etc) FB account up until a couple of weeks ago - it was solely for access a private kayak-fishing group. But I found that even there keeping track of posts and conversations was a nightmare, a headache and a massive time-waster.

Now I simply concentrate on a few proper forums and feel much better.

Cheers,

Mike.

[Mustang38]

I dont want to sound like a wanker but I have upgraded, I still talk about the old boat. Streaker Commander 635 with 225 Verado on it. I loved that boat it was the best boat going. However I upgraded to bigger model. It might look impressive but its a shitload more expensive to run. I don't catch as much fish as i use to and dont go out as much. However as a family/over nighter round the bay it is awesome and and I am learning to love it like the old one but it will take a few years. Living in Patto lakes is awesome to great lifestyle and good boat spotting.

[bowl]

I dont want to sound like a wanker but I have upgraded, I still talk about the old boat. Streaker Commander 635 with 225 Verado on it. I loved that boat it was the best boat going. However I upgraded to bigger model. It might look impressive but its a shitload more expensive to run. I don't catch as much fish as i use to and dont go out as much. However as a family/over nighter round the bay it is awesome and and I am learning to love it like the old one but it will take a few years. Living in Patto lakes is awesome to great lifestyle and good boat spotting.

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Sounds to me like you need two boats,around a 6 meter plus boat for fishing only n the huge boat for cruising overnighters...

[chris srsc]

dont get me wrong, facebook has its ups, but for me, i dont want or need to know how many times you burped your baby or that you had a pub meal with a picture of your beer...lol

the privacy and how easy it is to be tracked and monitored made it an easy decision for me to get off ..when they asked for proof of identity, i left, i didnt want my full name and details online,

[FishnMiss]

dont get me wrong, facebook has its ups, but for me, i dont want or need to know how many times you burped your baby or that you had a pub meal with a picture of your beer...lol

the privacy and how easy it is to be tracked and monitored made it an easy decision for me to get off ..when they asked for proof of identity, i left, i didnt want my full name and details online,

You don't need to give your real name, you can make up one and link it to a a new email address you set up (but anyway with IP logging it's really easy for them to track you).
I bailed from a number of FB fishing sites because most the blokes can't string a sentence together, and if they do many of them are so full of inappropriate language I wouldn't even show it to my wife.
Too many keyboard tragics on FB :down: