ME Groups online

Still here, plugging away!

I wanted to share with you a number of model engineering groups which use facebook.

There are many more than this, and a vast number of tourist narrow gauges that anyone can find anywhere online if they want to.

But these are some of the more active/enthusiastic ones just FYI.

Patrick

1. Cardiff Model Engineering Society
2. Rugby Model Engineering Society
3. Bradford Model Engineering Society (OFFICIAL)
4. City of newport model engineering society
5. Bristol Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
6. Isle of Wight Model Engineering Society
7. Lincoln & District Model Engineering Society Ltd
8. Reading Society of Model Engineers
9. Merseyside Live Steam & Model Engineers
10. 5 inch gauge railways and trains
11. Strawberry Minirail 5" gauge railway, Avon Valley Country Park, Keynsham
12. GL5 the Ground Level 5 Inch Gauge Main Line Association
13. Castlehill Highland Railway ( 7 1/4 inch gauge )
14. Steeple Grange Light Railway ( SGLR )
15. Cheltenham Society of Model Engineers
16. Handforth model engineering society
17. Worthing & District Society of Model Engineers
18. MCSME - Mid Cheshire Society Of Model Engineers
19. Leyland Society Of Model Engineers
20. Canterbury & District Model Engineering Society

Edited By Patrick Astill on 04/10/2013 14:56:22

1. Hornsby Model Engineers Co-Op Ltd
2. Roxbourne Railway - Harrow and Wembley Society of Model Engineers
3. The GEC Coventry MES
4. The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers
5. East Herts Miniature Railway Society Ltd
6. Rhyl Miniature Railway
7. The Ten and a Quarter Inch Gauge Railway Society
8. Bedford Model Engineering Society
9. Chingford & District Model Engineering Club
10. Maxitrak garden railway
11. swindon model boat and engineering club
12. Chichester District Society of Model Engineers
13. Guildford Model Engineering Society
14. Garden railroading

Hi Patrick

Still beavering away I see! I suspect the dead horse may be making an appearance again though.

My own opinion of Facebook is extremely negative - it may be an instant communication channel but I'm appalled by some of the stuff posted there. Instant and thoughtless comment and worse. ( Not, I expect, from the sites you quote though)

I did sign up in the early days and I've been trying to get away ever since. They keep trying to get me back with frequent emails .

No - not for me but maybe this will be of interest to others.

N

True enough, we don't use facebook but we are probably the best M.E. club on the planet!?!?!?!?!

**LINK**

If Carlsberg did ME Clubs..., Niloch!

Hi Patrick,

I've just seen John S's commentary about negativity - so I will step carefully.

I am sure that there is part of the ME community that will use & embrace social media (Facebook/Twitter etc.) and enjoy it. However I suspect that there is also quite a large part of our community that never will do so (and for many varied reasons).

I spent the majority of my working life in the IT industry, so I'm not uncomfortable with technology in itself. Indeed I was on Facebook for a short while a few years ago as it was the only way I could view some family photos from Canada at that time. I have since tried to remove myself from the site but suspect that it's not really possible to remove oneself entirely. I won't bore you with the reasons I won't use these sites - I think its sufficient to say that I won't.

So my point is very simple. I hope we don't get to the stage where someone has to have a Facebook or Twitter 'profile' in order to access particular information or facilities on any of your websites, as this would certainly exclude myself (and I suspect many others) who do not wish to participate in any way in these invasive systems.

Regards,

IanT

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Absolutely spot-on, Ian

MichaelG.

Hey Patrick

| "If Carlsberg did ME Clubs"

or maybe

If ME Clubs did Carlsberg !

N

You can still view the content, pictures etc without joining. That is much better than most forums and yahoo groups. I only tried a couple so there may be hidden catches but at least it isn't one of those that demand you 'join' and have yet another ID & password to forget before you can see anything,

I don't understand why some are listed but don't have links.

Of course they are keen to suck you in as increased users means higher fees for the advertisers. That after all was the whole point of Yahoo groups but look what happened there after a while. Another insideous trap has been DynDNS which offered a free service to 4million users until recently when they started to make it inconvenient unless you cough up about £25.