Do you still use the Forums as much as Facebook or Instagram for your PT discussions?

[Steve Chryssos]

Hey Clint.... Show us a selfie!

[USAZR1]

I'm not a narcissist, Steve. Sorry.

[Larry Callahan]

[USAZR1]

Glad to see you're still kicking, Larry.

[BonzoHansen]

Lol at Steve and Larry

[Gmc427]

50 ,prefer forum over fb,easy to post on fb, photobucket did a lot of damage to forums

[Martin71RS]

Trying out the app now...seems to work nicely on my phone

[eville]

I miss the forums from 10 years ago.

[andrewb70]

I miss the forums from 10 years ago.

I just miss 10 years ago. Where the hell did the time fly?!

Andrew

[eville]

I just miss 10 years ago. Where the hell did the time fly?!

Andrew

Lol. No ****. I parked the car one day. Forgot to look on the internet and 10 years later here I am.I

[andrewb70]

I have reluctantly waded into the world of Instagram. So far it has been an interesting experience. The main difference that I see between social media (SM) 1.0 and 2.0 is that SM 1.0 was mo focused on the community, while SM 2.0 is all about the individual. I don't have a fundamental problem with that, but with SM 1.0 (forums) it was a lot easier to have visibility among a large community of like minded individuals. The experiment continues.

Andrew

[Jaymzz]

I like the forums much better. People are held accountable on most forums for what they say. FB I have seen way to much bad info passed on from people that "read it on the internet somewhere" and trying to give someone advice based on that.

[68Formula]

I was big into FB for a while, but got tired of it.

First off, too much bickering on social media in general. Secondly, there's no subsections, so the posts that come to the top really depend on who's looking and responding. You have to pop in often just so for the 90% of crap that shows up, you don't miss that 10% of information you can use. Which means thirdly, it's hard to search for information.

I don't use Facebook or Instagram anymore, and it's very freeing. I don't want to spend my life feeling like I have to constantly pop into a social media account on my phone just so in case something interesting pops up, I can see it before it disappears. It's just information overload. I'm glad the forums are still alive and well.

Highly recommend others to try going cold turkey from social media for a month. It's like lifting a huge weight off your shoulders, and you will find you actually have more time to interact face to face with people and do real things besides sitting in front of a PC, or constantly staring at your phone.

[HotWheelz]

I use fb to keep in touch with family and friends. Maybe to try to sell some parts and model trains.

I frequent this forum 5x as much as going to fb.

I'm building a car, or should I say, Mike is building a car for me that I am paying for because of this forum! NICE!

[68Cuda440]

50 here.

Started w/ usenet BBS in 1993 on a VAX/VMS server and set up web pages for Mosaic using a text editor...

FB is for keeping up with friends, looking at pictures, the technical content is pretty low

Never used Instagram

I like the ability of the forums to delve into topics and get to all the details. Part numbers, installation issues, real feedback, not just advertisements. Forums like this pretty much killed the magazines for me. By the time a car is in a magazine I have seen every detail of the build on one of the forums and know a lot more than the article could ever show me. I also like that I can subscribe to a thread on someone's build and check in once a week or once a month and see how its going. With FB the threads are over in a day or two, too much work to keep up. I have a life, I don't need to be on the board daily.

[drummerdad]

47, and no facebook or instagram here either. Never wanted or needed it. I like forums. My wife complains all the time about facebook, but she still uses it. It used to have a function, when they allowed gun sales, now they are shutting that down. I dont have the patience for the blatant bias of facebook and I dont like rich people using their platform to tell me what I should and shouldnt support. Here its just about cars and trucks. Ill stick to forums.

[Barrrf]

The forum format imo is the best way to organize discussions. FB sucks for that. IG is just for pics.

[Sbeck09]

28 here.

Forums are still very valuable to my friends and I in my age group. We all use FB, IG, and multiple forums. IG and FB are cool to just share crap for likes or see whatever they think you want. Forums have genuine technical info from reputable sources plus we all clearly share our experiences with related products. And like others have said, searching older info is significantly easier on a forum.

Each one has it's place and I'm learning to balance them better. Forums are still my favorite though.

[frink84]

34 here. grew up on the tail end of the message boards, loved forums. I do have instagram and facebook. but for actual builds, forums win. too valuable for technical reference and parts and whatnot. agree that its killing magazines, but such is life.

[southernfriedcj]

I use forums only.

I'm 56. I literally don't personally know even one heterosexual grown man that uses Facebook or Instagram. My BIL does, but he is a homosexual.

I could see using Facebook or Instagram for business purposes, but everyone I know that uses Facebook or Instagram is somebody's wife or kids.

To me Facebook or Instagram is basically a Mazda Miata.