Railway archive on Facebook

[GNRi1959]

I was thinking about starting a Facebook group to post some pictures of Omagh, hoping to draw on locals who like that sort of thing.

 

I know nothing about Facebook, so do I need to open an account before I start the group ?

 

 

[BosKonay]

Facebook is hard to manage and not

at all searchable. Something like a forum is more permanent 

[Irishswissernie]

Found this on Facebook Tony.

https://www.facebook.com/RailOmagh

This has a lot of Archive images on it. You can post your photos (where you have copyright or the copyright holders permission) etc on there if you join Facebook yourself (I think)

Ernie

[Westcorkrailway]

13 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Facebook is hard to manage and not

Oh man, could not have worded it better myself!

[Mike 84C]

The hard to manage and unable to find stuff again is why I am not on facebook. One of us in our house constantly trawling through the pages looking for something they found is quite enough. The device may land on the front lawn if that were me!

[Irishswissernie]

I am not a fan of Faecesbook either. I mainly use it to chat to the offspring as my cheapo Tesco Pay as you Go mobile  doesn't support WhatsUp and I am only a member of various Groups to keep an eye on what photos they have nicked off my flickr and doctored to get rid of the copyright overlays. There are just too many Groups basically churning out the same stuff or in some cases perpetuating false or flawed information.

Now does anyone remember a Group I had years ago when, I think it was Microsoft, had some site (MY Daughter says it was MSN Groups!) where you could form a Group. Mine was Irish Railway something - I can't even remember what its Title was . Any way Microsoft or whatever decided to pull the plug on MSN and I closed it down. Shortly after IRM started up and I joined here instead. Some of the lads on here were members, H Gricer was one.

My memory is definitely getting worse!

Edited March 23, 2021 by Irishswissernie
MSN Groups was the name

[minister_for_hardship]

Have been roped into an admin role on one, god knows why, its unreal the numbers of bogus accounts and bots that spam fb groups.

[Irishswissernie]

2 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

its unreal the numbers of bogus accounts and bots that spam fb groups.

Our late Border collie Chumbawallah Pondicherry still has a facebook account created by my daughters . One of their facebook friends regularly corresponded with him for 6 months before she realised he was a dog!

[minister_for_hardship]

5 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

Our late Border collie Chumbawallah Pondicherry still has a facebook account created by my daughters . One of their facebook friends regularly corresponded with him for 6 months before she realised he was a dog!

Haven't seen dogs, just loads of Thai girls who got interested in railways all of a sudden.

[Irishswissernie]

I have 1400 followers on Flickr ERNIE's Railway Archive. A fair number of these seem to be Eastern European or Asian young  maidens! 

[minister_for_hardship]

59 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

A fair number of these seem to be Eastern European or Asian young  maidens! 

In reality, middle aged Boris sitting at his laptop in Vladivostok.

[GNRi1959]

In that case, I'll stay away from Facebook. My wife ignores me all the time, she is so busy nattering with her friends.

[Irishswissernie]

25 minutes ago, GNRi1959 said:

In that case, I'll stay away from Facebook. My wife ignores me all the time, she is so busy nattering with her friends.

You have one in a million there