Can someone explain the benefit of facebook groups about video games vs. BB forums?
Diluting the fan base? The thrill of being an admin? The confusion of matching real names to handles? Integrating strangers who happen to like video games into one's friends and social networks? Extra drama? Facebook's invasive monitoring and advertising? The short-term memory of no subforums, no topics, no word search, and having to scrolling down through miles of posts to find a thread from one week ago? I don't get it.
Ditto.
There truly are no advantages of being in a FB video game group instead of a video game forum. The Turbografx group ran by Chris seems to be a cesspool of guys trying to sell crap for high prices and arguments. (Totally different than PCFX right?)
However...
I think personally I joined up with a couple of these(Retro gaming/thrift/sales) groups on facebook purely because A-I have a FB account, and need a reason to use it (other than sharing happenings with my friends and family with extended friends and family). and B-It's a good way to branch out and introduce others to 'teh true OBEY forums' here as I've met a few Turbo guys that have never heard of this site.
Our 'one and only OBEY' group grew so fast initially because many of the midwesterner peeps on this very forum met in person at VGS and MGC and have made it a point to get together 3~4 times a year since we all live relatively close (Beemer in heart and Tats via skype) and have so many similar interests on top of all getting along. Once other Turbo heads joined up, the conversations just continued to grow.
I've also joined a group on instagram after meeting a guy locally through a craigslist trade. He knows what I have on my wish list and I know what he's into and we can message each other if we find stuff around locally. He found a few things that I was interested in just a week ago. It's kind of neat really.
I have no issues with joining social networking sites' VG groups to branch out beyond just being in VG forums, but I wouldn't want a fb group to replace what we have here.
so where is the real damn page?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/obeypce/