DH88 Comet Facebook Pages

Tom Tom? Standalone GPS units are SO last decade! 🙂

Luddites and technophobes.

I have this image in my mind of countless legions of grey old wrinklie bent-over their PC’s, updating their Tom Tom, smart-phone in hand, frowning…………. 😛

Really? Electronic media is just another means of delivery . The inputted data can be utter crap in exactly the same way as a newspaper or book. Transmitting anything electronically doesn’t improve it’s quality.

Social media is mostly tosh, and older and wiser folks have a raft of good reasons to avoid it.

Luddites and technophobes.

We have just had a new never seen before picture posted of Salazar ( Black Magic after it was sold) in the DH workshops under repair. Fascinating.

Social media is mostly tosh, and older and wiser folks have a raft of good reasons to avoid it. However, it does have it’s uses. Ironically, it’s ideal fro projects like the Comet. The reach is global now – and the information and pictures that turn-up can be amazing. One can simply ignore all the dross.

I’ve started following the page and, generally, I support any project that understands and makes judicious use of social media. I’m surprised at the hostility towards Facebook on here, but then again the worst behaviour I’ve seen on social media tends to come from older individuals, who seem to take an all-or-nothing approach to social media. Most of my older relatives tend to avoid it, using tenuous pseudo-reasoning to cover their fairly luddite attitudes towards technology. Those that are on social media are always on social media. Most arguments and fights I’ve seen on news pages on Facebook tend to be amongst older posters! I follow a TSR-2 page on there that has already had a couple of members leave, huffily, because of how it is moderated. A niche discussion page dedicated to a niche aircraft, and you lot still cannot keep it civil.

Anyway, this thread sounds a lot like this:

Standing back from the ‘like it/hate it’ debate over facebook, am I correct to deduce, from post #11, that it is intended that there should be a website for the project in due course?

Edit: sorry, I should first have searched and having done so, I see that there is a website at http://www.cometracer.co.uk/.

Thanks Mothminor I will pass it on and we shall see.
I will just say this last time that I cant understand why some have had problems on Facebook, I and other volunteers have never had any at all, apart from the odd ‘friends’ request. the only info about me on there is that I come from Derby.
If you can have a look at the latest posts on the site which are brilliant.
Thanks again to all who have been able to look and join, we are up to 200 now.
Ken

Have you got an Age Restriction? It’s set by default by Facebook when you create a page and, if it hasn’t been changed, it requires visitors to log in so that an age check can be performed. If so, set it to Anyone 13+ and see if that helps. It works for Pages, I hope Groups have the same setting!

The volunteer looking after the Facebook site is looking into how it’s done but says as yet can’t find it..if anyone here knows please let us know.

Hi Ken – i’ve pretty much given up with facebook. Any chance you can create a comet thread on this forum? I’m sure it would be very popular.

Ken – there IS a way of creating a Facebook page that is available to non users of Facebook like me and many others in this thread. There must be because I can see so many Facebook pages created by other groups – but sadly not yours at the current time

I can for instance see this one without being a member of FB
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1513533472243853.1073741834.1448107062119828&type=1

Hi Ken – i’ve pretty much given up with facebook. Any chance you can create a comet thread on this forum? I’m sure it would be very popular.

Hi All,
Ken,
Have donated in a small way to your Black Magic cause a while back now and have the small book that you offer for sale also :eagerness: Very interesting that some on here cannot view the Facebook pages ? I find if you type directly into Google (When it works these days) what you want to visit then just add facebook page it usually does the trick, having said this if you try copying the address that is provided by Ken direct into Google you are given a whole load of pages to view.

The only thing is you cannot comment on the Facebook or come to think of it twitter pages you have to be a member to do so but usually most can be viewed with no problem I have found…..:eagerness:

Geoff.

A series of previously unseen contempraneous photographs taken in Singapore of 1934 air race participants is beginning to show up on this facebook page, featuring an Airspeed Courier and a Boeing 247 so far.

WZ862

Just a note to say thank you to all those who have looked at our Comet Facebook page. It seems since my post we have had 39 new members, which I am assuming are mostly from here so a big thank you, we are up to 189 now.
For those who haven’t looked we have just put an update on how the wings for Black Magic are taking shape.
Ken

Well said Tin triangle and well done Ken for shariing the project progress.

/ Exactly – and it’s very easy not to put anything particularly compromising on it at all.

For my sake, I find it a peerless way of keeping up occasional contact with a large number of people whom I might have otherwise slipped away from, and following causes and projects that I’m interested in. For another couple of examples to add to what Bruce said, via Facebook I can tell that the Mosquito prototype had its cowlings fitted in the last week, or that Gatwick Aviation Museum’s new building is more or less finished, or even see a series of handmade bone knives given by a repatriating prisoner of war to crew members of HMS Formidable, and now in the possession of the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

Nasty organisation? Sure. The way it sells privacy of those who are imprudent enough to trust it with their secrets is pretty execrable. It can also certainly be used for nasty ends, witness “Britain First”.
But modern life is full of partly or wholly nasty organisations. Ever tried a week of avoiding Google, Nestle, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Microsoft, Tesco? You’d have to live in a cave. And Facebook is also full of good people using it for good ends. Not a simple black-and-white issue, if you ask me.

You can be as hands off with Facebook as you wish to be. You can join, and never make a posting – if that’s what you want to do.

There is far more Historic Aviation stuff on Facebook than you will ever see here – although you do need to search it out a bit. For example, P38 Lightning White 33 carried out engine runs yesterday for the first time; and the video was up within an hour. Not a mention of it here.

Facebook is just another part of the armoury – how you use it really is entirely up to you.

probably a topic for the General Discussion forum but this might explain why some of us prefer not to use facebook

http://bcgavel.com/2013/02/21/opinion-a-dangerous-book-without-a-face/

The fact remains that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar facebook sites that ARE available to those who do not wish to sign up for an individual account

Here’s one found at random

https://www.facebook.com/BBMF.Official/

But if you don’t want to maximise the exposure of your project – so be it. A non-Facebook user might just have that elusive part you have been searching years for – but you’ll never know