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Social Media makes it simple to manage car clubs

By: Roger Warner Sun, 08 Mar 2020
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As more and more of us become dependent on that little black mirror we carry in our pockets, so we gradually come to terms with it. Everyday life relentlessly carries on, in the process the phone swallows more and more of our daily tasks, talking, planning, communicating, researching, relaxing, until finally we utilize it as we do our cars and homes.

 

Once that phone becomes your useful friend and the fear of joining the social media network subsides and we realize in actual fact it’s a terrific medium to reach not just friends and family but people of like minds that we don’t know but share common interests with.

 

The irony is, three of my best friends that I’ve known for combined 130 years are not at all interested in social media, especially Facebook they sneer and laugh when I complain that they’re not using Facebook, and retort, as if Im trying to relive my teenage years when I mention it to them.

 

The disappointing part of this is they constantly ask me, so where have you been, what are you doing now? They know little of my life because they’re not connected, they’re not friends to me on Facebook and if i don’t call them and tell them, they just won’t know what’s going on in my life.

 

If they don’t remember to call me, or if I am too busy to call them the connection is lost, sometimes for up to a year. The flip-side is via Facebook I have reconnected with at least half a dozen old friends who I had lost touch with over the years and we now communicate quite regularly via Facebook and social media, to the point where we have arranged reunions and joined up with each other at events. We’ve learned about each other‘s past endeavors and now keep in touch with each other‘s future plans.

 

Through my interest in classic cars I joined several classic car groups on Facebook reading and replying to stories of interest I found myself talking to a classic car enthusiast in the Philippines on further conversation we realized that we both knew each other, that we worked in the same town 30 years ago and would’ve crossed each other‘s path’s on several occasions in our work.

 

These connections are endless and the social network is a marvelous tool to bring together groups of like-minded people, to organize and plan real life social events, such as classic car shows and club meets.

 

One example is the ‘Jaguar Breakfast Club Facebook group’, with over 4,200 members it’s an enthusiastic group of Jaguar owners who communicate their interests and activities via their Facebook group. Saturday 7th March saw them arrange a record breaking meet at Gaydon with 200 Jaguars assembled! There was a real buzz about the place, with so much variety, from a 1950s Daimler to 100 X100s, an XKSS recreation courtesy of Jaguar Classic to the latest I-Pace.  After the meet, the  members of the group continue sharing comments and photos about the day, long after they’ve all driven home

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