I guess you should be careful what you post as well. Even on your own time!!

https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/south/news/south-milwaukee/2020/01/15/south-milwaukee-woman-fired-after-making-pro-trump-comment-facebook/4471404002/

If you have not see this it is very funny. If you have seen it you know how funny it is and will probably watch it again.

Over 40 - You wear a tin foil hat and are convinced the government is really interested in everything you do in your meaningless life.

Under 40 - You’re self-obsessed and convinced everyone in the world needs to know everything you’re doing in your meaningless life.

Uh, yes. That is why the name of the people who put this out are "A Bad Lip Reading". It is called humor . People who spend too much time interacting on Facebook and other forms of social media seem to have lost their sense of humor. They don't know a joke unless it has an emoji at the end telling them how to react

The problem with this wonderful eutopia you propose is that pinball then receives no exposure to those outside the hobby. We need to bring new people into the hobby to keep it going, so it seems closed minded to say you should wall off an excellent way to create exposure to pinball.

Funny because it's true.

Because you can bifurcate the entire population into over 40 and under 40 categories...let me up.

Thanks...now I'm down the rabbit hole of bad lip reading's youtoube channel lol

You're welcome The debate ones are great. I'm not into the music ones much.

I disabled my account New Years day and finally deleted it after 10 years. At first, its a fun way to keep in touch, share photos and see what people are up to. Its a good thing until you get a glimpse at how insane and nutty your family and friends can be.

Friends -> A buddy of mine of 35 years and I got into an argument because he wanted me to "like" a post with a picture of him by a grave marker seen in "Night of the Living Dead" and make a positive comment. Someone light heartedly called him a nerd or something. He also made mention of that "it seemed as if I wasn't liking his posts" as much as other friends of ours. I told him he was acting like a 13 year old girl...this guy was 48 years old at the time. This wasn't a deal breaker in our friendship however I later cut ties with him and his wife.

Family-> My brother in law blocked me and unfriend my. We were friends with his "X" wife he took offence to. Mind you this was the week before this past Christmas which made our holiday gathering a bit uncomfortable.

FB was unbearable anymore seeing all the political memes and comments. Even after cleaning up my friends list and unfollowing some. Zuckerberg/FB is sh!T show with how its managed. Good riddance.

Isn't that kinda the definition of "deal breaker?"

After the FB incident, I cut ties.

Never have, probably never will.

Nice attempt at altruism for the perpetuating the hobby as a way to try to disguise your overly altruistic fantasy of Facebook being the best way of bringing new people into the hobby that you propose is incredibly short-sighted how did people get interested in the hobby before Facebook existed?

Believe it or not Facebook is not the center of the universe or the Internet despite them trying so desperately to be exactly both of those. The whole point of the Internet was that it was never supposed to have a center. If you found out that any other company was treating you and your information the way Facebook does, you'd drop them in a heartbeat and/or switch to one that's more responsible. But this wouldn't be the first time that the convenience of making bank quickly wins out over the best interests of the people.

Newsflash: we have the entire Internet at our disposal. We have YouTube, Google, live events like tournaments and expos/conferences and so many other ways to advertise and promote pinball. We have incredible media opportunities to promote pinball with things like the Project Pinball charity. And pinball keeps popping up in more arcades and locations again.

So it seems willfully ignorant to imply that without Facebook we would have a much more difficult time bringing new people into the hobby - and particularly when it has been proven time and time again that Facebook brings an overwhelming downside with it for everyone who uses it whether they want to pay attention to that or not.

My question is- is there a site for men that is similar to facebook?

internetisforsissies.org

I'm not trying to promote FB based on some altruistic perpetuation of pinball. I'm not sure how you mistake my comment as altruism, but it doesn't really matter.

Yes, I want people to be exposed to pinball because I love it. It's just a fact that literally billions of people use FB on a daily basis to connect with the world around them (compared to the few thousand that might use Pinside), so to ignore FB as a means to introduce people to pinball is just naive. I'm not sure how anyone could advocate so vehemently for the use of all these other online arenas that do the exact same sort of data collection and selling that FB does. Again, your comment is woefully naive.

And your comment is woefully ignorant and/or incredibly dismissive of the issues with the biggest offender of them all: Facebook. None of them will change if Facebook isn't compelled to change. But that would likely affect your stock portfolio, wouldn't it?

So you're a "No" on Facebook.
Got it.

Pinside.

LTG : )

And I clearly hit the right one with my one and only jump.

My small business isn't on it. Nor am I.

I've only looked from the outside but to me it has the feel of AOL from the 90's - something for the folks who couldn't figure out what to do with that Internet thing. Just like I don't sit in my car when I'm not going somewhere, I don't seek content when I'm not searching for something or trying to learn something.

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my replacement LED display boards for model H & model S Skee Ball

You hit the nail on the head my friend. This is really the thing. There is no goal. No strategy. No direction. We are making all of this technology. To what end? Sure there’s motivations why individuals or companies are doing it (mainly money) but there’s no plan ultimate plan here. Nothing noble about how any of it will better the world the people or creatures here.

I’m sure laws vary by state.
My brothers friend was messing around with installing a air horn that they use on locomotive trains on his truck.
Big rig horns are loud but locomotive horns are extremely loud.

It was a good platform when it first started to gain traction in the mid-late 2000's but began to go downhill once the groups ditched the traditional message board format and placed everything in a centralized "feed". As a result, it is hard to find the information you are looking for and people keep creating clutter by asking the same questions over and over ad nauseum. My account of 14 years has been deactivated for the better part of the last year. Can't say I miss it much honestly.

China loves it, that's for sure.

I’m indifferent to FB; I view it as a tool. I like the groups I am in and ignore everything else.

Dont forget about Russia