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13/9/2024 at 12:42pm
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Sadly Franbee, you are so right! I've been camping in one form or another for well over 50 years, and it was a safe assumption in times gone by that the 'camping community' spirit would prevail, and I think some pride was taken by people who strived to be good campers and valued members of that 'community', today, utter crass stupidity and selfishness seems to be the new experience far too often!
OK, hand up, I'm a Dinosaur, brought up on 'do unto others' and 'leave as you would wish to find' attitude, which clashes with modern 'me, me, me' attitudes quite harshly! In some ways, what galls me most is that the selfish acts often seem to take more effort, or inconvenience the perpetrators MORE than a considerate approach would, but it's done 'because I can!'. Think their IQ level must be somewhat less than my dog's!
I've certainly stayed on sites since the 'Covid Campers' inrush, which has impacted my enjoyment thanks to behaviour of others, in ways I never expected to see! Even in more closed groups not open to the general public you can't escape it, I organise a camping w/e rally group for our dog rescue charity, and we've had to expel and ban people from the group a couple of times because of their attitudes and behaviour at the camp site! Now had to publish a set of event rules, on what used to be little more than plain common sense and decency, in an attempt to stop these acts before they happen! 'Civilisation' is in rapid decline!
I think you are probably right longcol, and they are all the poorer for it IMHO!
Two groups I'm involved with use FB rather than a dedicated message board/forum. The first is the dog rescue charity I volunteer for, they have always used FB to 'communicate' with their members, but thanks to FB forever 'tinkering with formats and features' things like organising dog transports, where a relay of people will cover the route and precise rendezvous points and times are critical, has become the stuff of nightmares, where threads become disjointed and still 'live' threads become near impossible to retrieve when they drop from view when the posts count fall off and FB deems them 'dead', but it may take us days if not weeks to bring the right people together, so the thread NEEDS to be easily accessible, but only a few posts to keep it 'alive'!
The other is a Le Mans 24Hr motor race supporters group, when they had their own forum, it was vibrant, very well supported with long established members and a lot of newbies joining, then 2-3 years back they shut the forum and moved it to a FB group, it's all but killed it off, and it's now as dull as ditch water to read!
In both cases, the FB format, and it gets worse rather than better with every 'change' over time, really doesn't suit the need. A dedicated message board/forum is FAR, FAR, better and maintains relevance, historic data etc. in a much more user friendly fashion!
I can see why message boards/forums get ditched, they need hosting (often at some cost), they also need maintaining and supervising by suitably skilled people, whereas social media is 'free', and a lot of the maintenance is done by the hosting company, BUT, are they fit for purpose, do members benefit as much as they could, absolutely NOT IMHO. Long may UKC stay on it's own dedicated forum.
I'm no fan of 'Social Media', I find it very time consuming and horribly inefficient use of time, I'm only inclined to use it when 'forced' to by organisations making it the only option to engage with them, so that's all I use if for, and many a time, I think to myself, I can't be bothered with all this 'cr*p', I'll close my account! If I want to engage with family and friends, then it'll be face to face or by telephone, which I find a far more enjoyable and PRODUCTIVE method!
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
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