RC Groups is the only social media that I like!

RCG IMO is a great site for RC. Other social media, especially FB, is awful. The shallow, ephemeral nature of the medium leads to an overconcentration of vapid teenagers. How many times have I tried to sell something, and wasted a 30-message exchange with some attention-spanless kid who bails at the last second? RCG is still the internet, so there will always be people inisting that their way is the "right" and only way, but thanks mostly to its size much of that can get drowned out.

In the era where a lot of forums are loosing traffic to Fb (won't let type the full word for some reason), this place is still going strong and is a very active site. I'm a moderator on a big motorcycle forum and we are not nearly as busy as we were even a few years ago. Keep up the good work here!

FB is for short term chat. RCG is a long form medium. They both have their place. I like the immediacy of FB, quick impressions.

FB I find is inimical by its nature to any really meaningful communication. It's much more about the sayer than what is said. So for me the quick impressions are inevitably pretty meaningless, just like when somebody posts a picture of the sandwich they had for lunch. Or 1,000x worse, something political.

been a member since ezonemag.com
there is no more complete and up-to-date forum for modelers

I am honored they picked my quote in the article....RCG is great! Please don’t change anything

Been here for around ten years, spent some time helping newbies with their issues, and often received help with mine. Only downside to joining RCGroups hit the magazine guys, I have a huge store of RC Mags going back to the 80's, if one looks at the latest dates of these mags, they all stop abruptly when I joined here.
Really appreciate the permanence of my build logs, every once in a while I have to access stuff that is hidden inside the airframe, I can go back and see exactly where to cut to get to that particular part.

I'm with you on this. I often reference my own reviews to figure out how I did something or check a CG. It's always great to be able to access any of that via my phone while standing at the field!

That map is a bit incomplete. I know there's a few of us in the vancouver area, and I see one user here that's from Calgary - but that's not on the map either.

Makes it a bit difficult to plan a get-together for RC fun.

Nothing but love for RCG. I get to virtually hang out with all of my extended RC family and don't have to wade through the garbage that is rampant on FB. Without RCG it's likely that I would have dropped out of the hobby without other members support to answer questions and keep me going. Because of that I try to share what I've learned with others. I've met lots of great people at events that for a long time were just screen names here.

My one wish, I would love to be able to upload video without first going through Youtube or another host site.

Some 2,000,000,000 internet users do not go to Fakebook, twitter etc.. now.

I had a guy from the German equivalent of Craigslist contact me recently and ask if I wanted to trade my 8th scale race truggy racing setup(servos, tires, spares, 5-6 bodies, etc etc...) for some old stereo receiver stuff. Nowhere in my add do I mention that I wanted to trade anything, let along anything non-RC. I politely responded "no thanks", and he actually responded with "what a shame". What. A. Waste.

That is exactly the kind of c.rap you get on FB etc. Total waste of time and energy. In a forum you are deeper into a particular context, so that kind of thing gets weeded out more. The communication is more in-depth. When the medium is as shallow as FB and co, that is exactly the kind of "communication" you end up with. Which is border-line not communication at all. It is cultural ADD for everybody.

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