Lincoln Model K

Talk to Tom Laferriere.

Thank you, have known Tom for quite a while, one of good guys in my humble opinion.

I recently started a Lincoln "K" facebook site, feel free to post you want ad there.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/108645673031162/ 

Lynn

Thank you for the offer but I've never done facebook

A big drawback of having automotive things on Facebook,

is that you have to join Facebook even to see them.

I don't belong to Facebook and have no plans of joining.

John, I must say I shared that same sentiment until I had a long talk with my son and discovered the advantage. He made a valid point

that there are many people out there like me who aren't computer oriented and would never visit a forum of any kind but do facebook on their phone.

In addition you do not have to share anything. Since my time is getting shorter and my quest has not been successful thus far I'm willing to give it a try

The Lincoln Owners facebook page is much more active than the forum so perhaps my son was right. I can't help but think there are projects out there

and I'd like to find one. So I'm giving it a try. I'll say who ever is running that page is doing a great job.

Hi John and JAK,  I agree with both of you, I really don't care for Facebook at all, some people live on it, share every moment of there day... not me.  Here is how I ended up on it.  I collect and restore American Austins and Bantam, I have 8 of them. Our club crated a FB page for American Austin and Bantam (ABS) and I was hearing of activity on it that I should know of, I thought that all this info will be in the news letter at some point, didn't happen.  So I joined FB just to keep up with the info, parts, cars and discussions.  I recently crated the FB page for the Lincoln K because of the lack of activity on the Lincoln Owners Club page.  If you don't go there sign up you don't get notifications of posts so it's kind of stagnate. The plus side of the FB page is you get notified immediately if you follow it.  I hope more Lincoln K people join the FB page, it would be nice to share info and discuss the cars more often.

Lynn 

For more than thirty years of my life, I worked in communications systems contracting. We worked with cutting edge technology, installed some of the first systems in the nation to carry such channels as HBO, ESPN, and a dozen others. We were building the systems to carry the channels before they were even on the satellite for any more than testing purposes. We did reception tests, and reported back to HBO, WTBS, WGN (ESPN didn't even exist yet!). I personally designed and built testing platforms for others who designed and built the equipment that made the internet technically feasible. We built one of the earliest modern non-government LANs in California in 1979, another step towards making the internet possible. I am NOT a technophobe. But I hate the gamer mentality of those that run the internet world. As a technician/engineer, I was taught to make things WORK!. Make them so that they could be used by most common people, and make them reliable. I eventually got out of the business because I was sick and tired of arguing with people more interested in playing games and conning the masses into buying something they do not need, let alone understand how to use.

Besides. Where I live now, I cannot even get Facebook to load onto my computer most of the time. All the glitz and popups, and garbage they cram into it cannot get through the only internet providers available in my area. The barely can call it a DSL where I live, nine times out of ten, I cannot even load the sign-in page. I used to be able to. Then those running Facebook added more garbage. So much garbage, I can't see the content anymore.

I will agree, that the hobby should be well represented on Facebook. The hobby needs to reach out to new people. And Facebook happens to be where a lot those of new people are. However, the hobby should not rely on Facebook for distributing information, club activities, etc. There are many millions of people in this country alone, that cannot use Facebook. The ironic thing is, that many of the poorest parts of the world have better internet access than half our nation does.