Warbird Information Exchange

Each seems to cover the same topic pretty well in different ways. My impression is that Facebook WIX is better tied in to the other warbird Facebook sites because this is where most info is being shared by restorations or other similar groups these days. If you're not looking at these now, you're slowly going to lose the big picture (and fine grain) of whats being done these days. Others may disagree with me. But there's some mighty fine projects out there that seem to be missed on WIX website recently.

The discussion swirl on Facebook is much faster. You run into a few hacks and some that are awefully ignorant. An "Oh Well' approach helps a lot for me.

WIX website favors written info and photo series, as like we've seen with historic pics. Pics posted on the website are much higher [edit] quality than on Facebook. Facebook favors users being notified of new events faster. The software can be accessed on smart phones and images uploaded from there. Most of the time this isn't important, until it is important.

Thats my take on it. I look at both now. I think the webmaster must be happy to hear this.

EDIT: grammar

I think Facebook & other social sites have their place but information is brief and repetitive in some cases. Forums like Wix have an important place and (for the most part) every hee haw isn't popping mindless comments into a discussion. Here on Wix the pendulum swings widely from quick updates to detailed conversations. I do agree with others that restoration and day to day activities are better documented via Facebook. Social media is more for the Fanboy vs Forums which are for serious enthusiasts. Museums and business are using Facebook to help monetize their business, that really doesn't happen here as Scott inst selling the membership lists. There is a lot of overlap. The big question is why the migration. One of the limiting factors is ease of access to Facebook versus phpBB forums, also posting photos is just simple on Facebook. At least that's how I see it.

A cautionary note about Facebook:...That is, a third of the people who have already expressed a desire to see it by 'liking' the page. Facebook is happy to let me pay to promote my posting so the others can see it, too, of course.

That is one advantage of a website over social media: If you put the content up, it will remain there for all to see until you decide otherwise. With Facebook, posting your content is like writing your name in the sand without any idea when the tide is coming in.

Facebook is nice for organizing events, though.