This group is just another "arm" of NitroExpress.com.

We have the fb page. Groups are taking over pages now and far more successful. Harder and more time consuming to manage, and bigger ones, move on too quickly. As such they often lack depth of discussion. And are hard to look back in. How does one look back to a discussion five years ago on facebook? Takes forever, no decent search facility. They ONLY way it will still be is, if a phone or image was loaded up with the discussion. The image or photo is kept by facebook. Not so with mere words by themselves.

The eye candy girls all like facebook. To put pictures of themselves up.

Same with pretty guns. People like looking at them. Then move on.

So facebook and facebook groups are part of it all now. Because I don't trust facebook at all, I will go with a multi platform approach.
1. Use a blog/ezine to be the core of discussions and displays of guns etc.
2. Share the article or discussion on the blog to the forums. Or copy and paste it, as now would be required. Hopefully an upgrade will allow sharing.
3. Hopefully with a few keystrokes also share the discussion, photos, article etc to SEVERAL different social media platforms, sites, pages, groups etc easily. Save a lot of work.
4.A benefit is the core stays here, under control.
5. A major benefit is the article, discussion, news item shared, when re-shared from our post keeps the pointer at NE and is not lost on sharing an news article.

The blog/ezine/forum(?) remains the core of the sites. It would be cool if such worked with the upgraded forums. But I will use a wordpress type site built around the forums anyway. The forums stay as part of it. With photo hosting in the mix somewhere as well.

By keeping the core separate, history and archives are maintained. I enjoy finding old threads and re-enjoying them again. And even some older longer members haven't seen them even once.

I will do something similar for my political pages.