A large part of gCaptain’s success has been our ability to leverage social media. My technology freinds in silicon valley have advised me for years to shut down this forum and move everything to social media. And I get frequent messages from people within our industry saying the forum is out of cont…

Agreed. FB has reached garbage status and should be abandoned. I deleted FB and never looked back. It’s a dumpster fire of negativity, fake news, bad advertising, attempts at behavior modification, subversion, and the lowlifes of the world on full display.

I have a facebook account but my page is blank as I’ve only used it to access other pages when referenced. Yesterday, a friend warned be about something and encouraged me to look into it. If you have a facebook account, do this: go to settings, then blocking. In the dialog box, type “following me”.…

Apparently it’s hoax. Everyone that turns up has the letters “Me” somewhere in their name. [image] FACT CHECK: Are Facebook Users Secretly Following You? Instructions for blocking Facebook users who are supposedly furtively following you are spurious. [i…

Thank you for that. I see now that the names that came up had ME in them but what got me was that none were ‘murican’. The list of 25 or so were all middle eastern or indian and whatever this is: আহম্মেদ সুমন.

@John , you and I come from an almost identical background. I agree with the positive comments above/below and appreciate all the effort you’ve put into making gCaptain a meaningful professional forum. I have only one request: if possible, put a working version of the gCaptain forum app on Google …

Noted without comment: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-facebook-google-employees-fight-tech.html Cheers, Earl

One of the reasons I like reading gCaptain, it actually loads while at sea. I’ve given up even trying to load Facebook underway. If you don’t have my at-sea email, I guess you’re not getting in touch with me until we pull in somewhere.

Social Media. Casting skills video. [image] Tackleuk Check out the casting skills! www.tackleuk.co.uk Credit: Allison Renn

Well if we are going to bring up casting and fishing… there really is no other with quite the social media aplomb of Darcizzle. [image] Darcizzle Offshore Darcizzle Offshore, Boynton Beach, Florida. 114,051 likes · 19,108 talking about this. Darcie, aka Darcizzle Offshore, is the origina…

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We do have an android app… here are the directions for installing it: Download The NEW gCaptain Forum App

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