Facebook and firearms?

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ThomasCarey

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I know Facebook tends not to be the most friendly of sites to us gun owners. However many gun owners such as myself are on there. The NRA is there as are other groups and some brands catering to us gun owners.

If your on facebook and a gun owner. I would like to connect with you. http://www.facebook.com/tomlcarey

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Thomas
 
I haven't seen too much anti gun stuff on facebook yet (except for some of the really downer headlines that the NRA posts). I guess my only complaint would be that they always advertise the mobsters game crap on the sidebar, I don't know if everyone gets those ads or if they think I must like it since I like guns (if that's the case I'm quite insulted). I also belong to Lee Enfield collectors group. I don't worry about people seeing that I have guns since only my friends can see my stuff.
 
I sent you a PM... not sure of the etiquette of posting my email in here.

I love FB because I can send pictures right from my phone to FB... which is usually shooting related, or FD/EMS related activities I have going on. Unless it is the summer, and then it is Highland Games activities.
 
Got your PM and back at ya! =) Oh I can't stand those games on Facebook. Of course I was never one for video games in general.
 
I have been amazed how much time people waste on all the games. My daughter is currently not allowed on the computer because of all the inapropriate quizes.
 
Facebook Surveillance

I would recommend a quick Google of "facebook surveillance" for those of you thinking of splashing your collection along with your allegiances out there in this very public space.

Online forums and social networking systems provide easily harvested data for those who feel it's their job to know what everyone is doing.

Let's be careful out there.

 
what arfin said.

and gun owners are usually a paranoid lot. when a guy with 2 posts comes on and says he wants to connect to all gun owners on another service...
 
You know we used to have a guy at the printing plant I worked at with one of those on all the time. The guy worked in the press room.
 
There is no hint of anything firearms related, or any other personal type information on my facebook page... just my name and college info, and that is it. The audience there is just too broad. I'm good friends with one of the HR people at my employer, and they will freely admit the first thing they do to job applicants is facebook them.

Facebook was fun back when everybody and their brother *wasn't* on it. Now that I've got everyone from family members, to friends of friends, to random coworkers I barely know friending me up, I want the thing pretty sanitized.

Sanitized = no fun, which means that one of these days I will probably just shut the whole thing down.
 
That said, I know people who do put firearms stuff up all the time; I've never detected anything "anti-gun" about facebook. Seems like it is open to just about anything to me.
 
That's quite a Ruger collection. He even had a Ruger hammer! Darn nice it was. Would love to have one. I guess they make it for another company. It's in Titanium with wood handle and feels real good in the hand.
 
Facebook has very few good uses. It is mostly a gigantic waste of time. Go look at the games that are everywhere on facebook if you don't believe me. There must be a hundred games where all you do is mindlessly click things and take up hours of your time for nothing. My wife is obsessed with them and they're garbage.

THAT being said, I would say come up with a fake name, start a facebook account, and put a picture of yourself holding a decked out AR in your underwear. The humor would make facebook finally worth something.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=name&id=1303093099
 
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There was a story just today about your gubmit doing surveillance on social networking sites. Pretty scary stuff what your gubmit is doing these days.
 
I have videos of myself, friends and family shooting and demonstrating guns on facebook. If we don't share our sport and act like it is as normal as getting Starbuck's coffee, as appropriate to talk about and share and engage in as youth soccer, then the antis have won and will continue to marginalize our sport and rights until they are extinct. If guns are a part of your life, don't hide that fact, on facebook or anywhere. DO keep them locked up in a good safe.
 
lawboy has hit this square on the head. Just sticking to great forums like this is just preaching to the choir. Gun owners need to be in the social networking sites portraying your average gun owner in a positive light.

A lot of people don't know the first thing about guns. Especially those big city types. They only know what the media and anti gunners tell them. If that is the only information they get. If non gun people are the only types they ever meet. What will persuade them to change their views on us?

I think a lot of people are waking up in America. Especially thanks to the present administration and their extreme agenda.

As such I think its a good time for us gun owners to get the truth out about us.
 
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