Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449 View Post
I believe JimmyHAD has it right. FB provides frequent new stimulation and we all like that.
At the same time I believe that FB is a "fad/flash in the pan/temporary type of thing. It's weakness is that their is no depth on a subject matter and no permanency of knowledge. Therefore I think that for the subjects where depth is important the forums will always be the primary resource.
At this point in time I am actively "unfollowing" groups and people on FB because it is so superficial and I have to many of them. There are other things I want to do with my time, one of which is getting back to contributing to SRP.

There was a time when I visited the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois to discuss the possibility of consulting or working with them. I made the wrong decision and referred to it as a "fad/flash in the pan/temporary type of thing." Mosaic resulted and led to Netscape which became the core of internet browsing. Shortly thereafter, newsgroups began with 30 or so groups and grew to 70,000 or so. Toward the latter end of that growth Facebook began and became what it is today --- the dominant path to the internet.

For the last few years, several folks have been searching for what would come next and there have been several notable failures. Facebook is here to run its course.

Randy is spot on when he writes of facebook "It's weakness is that their is no depth on a subject matter and no permanency of knowledge."

But unless there is a clear and easy place to this and other forums from the most widely used internet tool, I think places like SRP could wither away and die from the absence of new blood.

I think that was at the core of what Glen intended when he posted. The group here can play a massive role in keeping SRP alive and providing the library of subject matter and knowledge.

Just my take.

--james