They are just realizing this?

No, the NRA is NOT "just realizing this?". This article is a reminder, not new territory.

The good news and bad news is...social media ruins just about everything. This isn’t unique to hunting. It’s immediately more damaging but far from being alone. This horrible new synthetic world is corrupting just about everything. Go hunting for the same reasons you did 25 years ago. Even better-go hunting for the same reasons you did as a kid.

Good advice. Shame more folks don't follow it.

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Originally posted by tomahawker:
The good news and bad news is...social media ruins just about everything. This isn’t unique to hunting. It’s immediately more damaging but far from being alone. This horrible new synthetic world is corrupting just about everything. Go hunting for the same reasons you did 25 years ago. Even better-go hunting for the same reasons you did as a kid.

Anything that has "social" in its name is a disaster.

Is AR a form of social media?

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Originally posted by MJines:
Is AR a form of social media?

All depends on what is your classifications of "social media".

AR is probably unique in the sense that AR does not benefit from its members at all.

What benefit there is to the whole hunting and shooting community.

Each member is free to post whatever he wishes, with very broad rules.

These rules are based on common sense and decency.

Other "social" media is basically uses its members to benefit itself.

This can be in a small way like other hunting websites that is supported by adverts, in which case the advertisers are protected from any negative posts.

Others, like Facebook, have gone to extreme where they no longer care about the members, as long as they have millions of idiots they can sell their details to gain profit.


A perfect example of how sick Facebook is!

I think AR is *form* of social media, but not exactly how the term is commonly used. Yes, the comments are public, and yes, a person is sharing, theoretically, for all to see. But the content is not automatically distributed, linked, or otherwise shared via an aggregating app that may display the information to those only tangentially interested, or not interested at all. For example, Instagram shares pictures that look like one another, even though the content may be different - the algorithms that they employ to gain views and clicks is astounding.

If you think about the content we share as the water, AR is a well, whereas Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etc., are fire hoses.

Doesn't mean discretion is irrelevant though.

In the case of our friend Mike, that they found the posts here isn't surprising, that they shared otherwise un-posted pics is...

Merriam-Webster:

social media noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction: forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

Oxford English Dictionary:

social media
Pronunciation /ˌsōSHəl ˈmēdēə/ /ˌsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə/
NOUN
treated as singular or plural
Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

If a forum-based website and what is commonly thought of as social media are not materially different, one would not need to re-post a story from a rather static website across the more dynamic platforms of instagram and twitter for it to really be seen. The dynamic, instant-reach capabilities of platforms like Instagram, etc. are the hallmarks of modern social media - whether the definitions reflect what we mean today or not. Search out the 20 most popular SM platforms out there and AR, 24HR Campfire, Rokslide etc., ain't gonna be there... the fire hose platforms will be... there is a difference - and marketers know, and exploit it...

Who’s kidding whom here?

There are two rules only in life:

1. Common decency.

2. Common sense.

If anyone can’t figure out those two rules, then they are irredeemably lost.

IMHO, as always.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Who’s kidding whom here?

There are two rules only in life:

1. Common decency.

2. Common sense.

If anyone can’t figure out those two rules, then they are irredeemably lost.

IMHO, as always.

True.

But sadly these rules do not apply in our modern society.

What some hunters have to go through should be illegal.

They get labelled as criminals, for doing nothing illegal.

All we need is a law that punishes anyone criminalizing anyone who carries on any activity that is legal!

THAT would make sense, and bring common decency back.

When I walked by the NRA booth today at DSC Convention, the nice young lady tried to interest me in joining. I told here when they dumped la Pierre would I consider joining. She had no clue what I meant. Guess she doesn’t follow NRA on social media....

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Originally posted by jdollar:
When I walked by the NRA booth today at DSC Convention, the nice young lady tried to interest me in joining. I told here when they dumped la Pierre would I consider joining. She had no clue what I meant. Guess she doesn’t follow NRA on social media....

Well, with all the money La Pierre has been spending the NRA might have been forced to employ an ignorant, cheap individual to man their desk?