Posted to Facebook on Easter Sunday (4.4.2021) in the RC Drift group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/rc.drift.rc/?multi_permalinks=2894395280875084&comment_id=2894871634160782¬if_id=1617539452124772¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif)

This whole thread is crazy. I come from many years of scratch-building off-road scaler/crawler/replica trucks, and that world has issues for sure (n00bs asking questions on FB rather than Google or looking at the forums) but mostly there's a lot of love there. I'm too new to drift to get a sense of the bad in this community, but I do know one thing - Facebook is bad. Facebook cannibalised forums. All forums, for virtually all hobbies. Facebook won because "everybody's on Facebook". And yet Facebook is terrible because -

Posts are ephemeral. Post today, forgotten tomorrow.
Search is abhorrent. You can't find all posts of, say, all RX7s.
Facebook makes bank through advertising. And so it promotes doom scrolling and outrage culture. Advertising also leads to erosion of privacy and surveillance.
Forums are only slightly better. They haven't kept up. Just a Like button would have done wonders for people that need that dopamine hit.

I believe quite strongly that a new - I hate this term - social media tool will emerge some day. One that hits a sweet spot between a Facebook group and what forums were good at (build threads, event listings, club management, tools/techniques, product guides...)

Facebook was (is!) a step back for all of us.