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In the metro area, within an hour’s drive of my home, there are a half dozen canoe & kayak clubs, some of which have been around 50+ years. These are (were) strong clubs with many hundreds of members, active cruise schedules, paddling classes, safety classes and presentations.
A couple days ago I clicked the homepage or message board of several club sites I had not visited in a few years. Many now direct to Facebook pages filled with nonsense BS, photos and little paddling information.
This morning I needed to look up the specs on Millbrook’s poling canoes and clicked on Millbrookboats.com
Gone. Is the Millbrook site simply down, or is it too now solely existent as a Facebook page without easily searchable canoe specs and design information?
If this is the future, or worse, the present, I don’t much like it. I don’t mean to turn this into an anti-Facebook screed, so a direct question:
Are Facebook and “meet-up” groups killing canoe clubs?
A couple days ago I clicked the homepage or message board of several club sites I had not visited in a few years. Many now direct to Facebook pages filled with nonsense BS, photos and little paddling information.
This morning I needed to look up the specs on Millbrook’s poling canoes and clicked on Millbrookboats.com
Gone. Is the Millbrook site simply down, or is it too now solely existent as a Facebook page without easily searchable canoe specs and design information?
If this is the future, or worse, the present, I don’t much like it. I don’t mean to turn this into an anti-Facebook screed, so a direct question:
Are Facebook and “meet-up” groups killing canoe clubs?