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…

[image] tengineer1: I cannot imagine why anyone would advise you that you should shut down the forum and move to social media Forums are expensive to run while social media is free.

Social media is not your friend. A forum that was one of the great assets to the drilling community, and a primary resource (along with gCaptain) for me was killed dead when somebody set up a competing Facebook group. It would be a tragedy if that happened here. My response to the Silicon Valley ty…

Unlike social media such as Facebook, online forums were designed since the beginning with one primary purpose in mind: discussion. Facebook’s comments are still… well, just comments. It’s hard to have a proper discussion there. Facebook’s “I think this could be interesting” algorithms also don’t he…

The enduring value proposition of an online forum instead of something like Facebook is its institutional memory. I’ve followed gCaptain on and off since the Costa Concordia sank, but I didn’t even look at the forum until I decided to try and come to the dark side and earn my license. So far most …

I notice the discussion seems to be slowly moving towards Facebook anyway. For an example yesterday 21 hours ago gCaptain posted a question on Facebook on his page at around the same time as he did on this forum. !! What’s the best training class you’ve ever attended? !! Currently, Facebook has 149…

[image] Beam: urrently, Facebook has 149 comments - yes that jerk’s comment, in the beginning, was not needed although overall the answers are informative. Sure, more comments, but for my money there’s more information in this one post than in all the Facebook comments combined. [image] Be…

What’s this facebook thing ya’ll write about?

Facebook is bandwidth heavy. (m.facebook is clunky) Bandwidth limits are not something landlubbers have to deal with so they just don’t understand. gCaptain is somewhat accessible at sea and overseas which is great. If gCaptain moved to social media a large portion of mariners could loose functiona…

I highly recommend the course whether you need it or not. Seriously - good course and very interesting.

I’m still getting mire sour about fb by the day but… there are some things it’s still good for. With those positive aspects in mind I’ve helped launch a private facebook group to discuss matters related to the readiness of the merchant fleet in the event of war. It’s a private group but if the subj…

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Kennebec_Captain January 30, 2018, 6:21pm 29

Sure, more comments, but for my money there’s more information in this one post than in all the Facebook comments combined.

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