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Any glaring reason this group doesn't have a Facebook page? Or is there one?
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You have it backwards.

We have this wonderful forum which is why we don't need or want Facebook.
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Personally I feel Facebook is a stupid, useless, invasive website whose absence would make the world a better place.
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I would guess (beyond the obvious putting a face to a name implications), Facebook is the wrong vehicle for the overall goal of this site. This site is about learning. Facebook is not designed to help people learn. It's designed to maximize consumption.

The search feature on HD is certainly less than desirable, but try searching for information on Facebook from eight years ago. You can't do it. Nor does Facebook really want you to. The wonderful people of HD have made it possible to lead neubs by the nose so they can find the basic answers to basic problems. There is no straightforward way to do that on Facebook.
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The answers you have received should give you a clue . We have our own social network that you have to earn your way into . We have no need to air our laundry in the public domain .
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aboutface :silent:
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facebook is what your wife uses to hook up with her old flames while yer gettin' pissed and reading this site.
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OOWW . Kinda brutal .Still , it's honest .
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HDNB wrote:facebook is what your wife uses to hook up with her old flames while yer gettin' pissed and reading this site.
pissed north of the 49th parallel something else south of it. :ewink: :P

that information was not found on facebook. :thumbdown:

EDIT; I would not have responded had I realized this was in the welcome center.
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i never noticed either. i'll move it to off topic. thanks for the catch cob
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cranky wrote:Personally I feel Facebook is a stupid, useless, invasive website whose absence would make the world a better place.
I would probably agree but I have never looked at it.

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I have a blast on Facebook. I keep in touch with all my old friends and we joke around like the old days. We get vile enough to get kicked off for a month sometimes.
Then we come back and have even more fun.
Trouble is, I use my real name there and not about to talk about distilling.
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I was going to post an answer - but I feel you lads have given adequate replies :thumbup:
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Sorry guys, didn't realize that the question would strike such a nerve. I'm not a huge fan of social media either, but it does serve a decent purpose sometimes. Was just figuring a "private" group might be cool, but it's no big deal. This is a good forum and I am happy to be part of it. Anxious to learn some stuff and help out if I can. Forget I said anything about facebook. And a FUCK OFF to the guy talking shit about my old lady......lol!!!!!
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Burl Jerkins wrote:...And a FUCK OFF to the guy talking shit about my old lady......lol!!!!!
Funny. HDNB wasn’t talking about you (or yours). He was suggesting that Facebook is the “gateway drug” to Tinder. And if you don’t recognize that name..Google it.

Me...I despise Facebook...because it wastes time. It’s an addicting activity which will overrule your other life efforts. I’ve known some to spend hours per day searching, reading, commenting on theirs and “friends” pages. Social media has a tendancy to become a “social addiction”. So, it definitely doesn’t need proliferation here.

We (here on HD) are a network of professional hobbiests (and some professional professionals) engaged in an educational oversight of an industry propelling itself to the threshhold of greatness.
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Burl Jerkins wrote:Was just figuring a "private" group might be cool, but it's no big deal.
Sorry but my mind can not associate FB with the word private.
This became the worst place ever for privacy and free speech.....

HD is a way better place to chat about what's unallowed in some countries.
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Plus some of us have been banned from facebook so we can't even see much of the content on there.
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apologies. not talking about YOUR wife. she's an angel, nothing like what i was alluding to.

just reminding y'all that wimmen are no differnt than men. TB gets it. been drinkin' too much? not paying enough attention to your lady? trust me she will make damn sure someone is paying attention to her. she'll even be nice an encourage your drinkin.

keep you anesthetized while she goes about being appreciated elsewhere. maybe even suggest you get a hobby. like stillin'...takes a lot of hours to stay out her way. love that forum you're on? Notice she is on the computer too? can you see what she's doin' on it? prolly not a bunch of ol men on a stillin forum.

have a look at the valentines thread, you would have thought there would have been more posts there. maybe a lot you new guys dont know the way Gooseeye gave over them flowers. you don't know what you got til it's gone. I'ma give mine a squeeze now and tell her how much i appreciate her puttin up with my bullshit for so long.
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HDNB wrote:apologies.
have a look at the valentines thread, you would have thought there would have been more posts there. maybe a lot you new guys dont know the way Gooseeye gave over them flowers. you don't know what you got til it's gone. I'ma give mine a squeeze now and tell her how much i appreciate her puttin up with my bullshit for so long.
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A knife is like a woman . You better stroke it every night or it will get rusty .(Bol in 'Lonesome Dove)
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And yes a little off topic.
I don't know if the "younger" generation is on Facebook or if they have deserted it for other platforms.

I am a HUGE Alabama basketball fan.
We have one of a very few "One & Done" s on our team this year Collin Sexton.
(For you furreners, basketball players can no longer go immediately from High School to the NBA.
Got to sit and wait, go to Europe for a year, or sign with a college with everyone knowing its a one season deal.

During most games, broadcasters always mention that Sexton has NO social media accounts and no plans to get one.
"Social Media is just a total waste of time."
I'm pretty sure that is going to add a zero to the end of his checks in the pro's
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I joined a fb distilling page a while ago, was interesting at first but then got to much. Omg the amount of stupid shit posted drove me crazy, so I left. Just imagine, the amount of questions asked here, then put that into a fb discussion, then you'll understand why.
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