The Caravan Club is coming to Facebook

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  • JVB66
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    edited August 2016 #32

    Given how long it is taking for the new forum to materialise, it would tend to suggest that the CC are exploring other avenues. If this is the case, I for one will not be bowing out, as I have no intention of letting Facebook anywhere near any of my  IT
    devices. 

    ..And hereFrown

  • Fysherman
    Fysherman Forum Participant Posts: 1,570
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    edited August 2016 #33

    The club should make any competitions available to all members

    Don't agree with this at all.

  • Briang
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    edited August 2016 #34

    Given how long it is taking for the new forum to materialise, it would tend to suggest that the CC are exploring other avenues. If this is the case, I for one will not be bowing out, as I have no intention of letting Facebook anywhere near any of my  IT
    devices. 

    ..And hereFrown

    and here +1

  • Briang
    Briang Club Member Posts: 670 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #35

    The club should make competitions available to all members

    Don't agree with this at all.

    +1

  • Goldie146
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    edited August 2016 #36

    The club should make any competitions available to all members

    Don't agree with this at all.

    No! The fewer people who enter, the more chance I have of winning! LaughingWink

  • avondriver
    avondriver Forum Participant Posts: 85
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    edited August 2016 #37

    The club should make any competitions available to all members

    Don't agree with this at all.

     

    They have. However, just like any other competitions there is a challenge, task or puzzle to sort out. In this case it's getting to the facebook page. Like any other competition you either solve the challenge and make an entry or dont. Your choice.

  • Fysherman
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    edited August 2016 #38

    Not according to the staff member who informs us that it is only available on Facebook.

    Or are you suggesting using some kind of deceit to get a false facebook account like those who use Tinder do?

  • mhparking
    mhparking Forum Participant Posts: 155
    edited August 2016 #39

    Hi everyone,

    I’d like to address the concerns that Facebook will be a replacement for CT, this is not the case! Facebook is another channel to offer you more choice in how you connect with The Club. If you have any questions as to how Facebook works or how you can get
    involved, please let me know Smile

    As for the questions already asked, a timeline is the news thread on the Facebook page. To enter the competition you need to find the Club Together post in the timeline, and comment with #sitenightvoucher.  

    So is the current CT software still due to be replaced as oft promised then? If so when please?

    Graham

  • mhparking
    mhparking Forum Participant Posts: 155
    edited August 2016 #40

    The club should make any competitions available to all members

    Don't agree with this at all.

     

    They have. However, just like any other competitions there is a challenge, task or puzzle to sort out. In this case it's getting to the facebook page. Like any other competition you either solve the challenge and make an entry or dont. Your choice.

    No they haven't. They have made the competition open only to CC members who are also Facebook members and, in doing so, have disqualified CC members who (for whatever reason) object to having to put up with the downsides of being a Facebook member.

    Graham

  • RochelleCC
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    edited August 2016 #41

    So is the current CT software still due to be replaced as oft promised then? If so when please?

    Graham

    Hi Graham,

    Yes we are working hard to get the new CT software up and running. We will let everyone know when we have an official launch date.

  • jeffcc
    jeffcc Forum Participant Posts: 430
    edited August 2016 #42

    As the competition is purely a means to encourage people to join in with  the caravan club on facebook why would it be open to people not on facebook?  Cannot understand people getting upset over this you either want to be on facebook or not the choice is yours, all the club are doing is trying to raise their profile.

  • Fysherman
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    edited August 2016 #43

    Not upset in the slightest (takes a bit more than this)

    However, the club takes a membership fee each year from everyone, therefore it is not unreasonable to expect everyone to be able to enter club competitions without having to submit first to a third party data harvesting commercial company with dubious ethics.

  • NicolaW
    NicolaW Forum Participant Posts: 99
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    edited August 2016 #44

    Hi Rochelle. The 'house rules' on the FB page say no links to websites. Does this include links to CL websites/Facebook pages? Are we not allowed to post/advertise/promote/talk about our CLs on the new Facebook page?

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  • mhparking
    mhparking Forum Participant Posts: 155
    edited August 2016 #45

    Not upset in the slightest (takes a bit more than this)

    However, the club takes a membership fee each year from everyone, therefore it is not unreasonable to expect everyone to be able to enter club competitions without having to submit first to a third party data harvesting commercial company with dubious ethics.

    Exactly

  • mhparking
    mhparking Forum Participant Posts: 155
    edited August 2016 #46

    So is the current CT software still due to be replaced as oft promised then? If so when please?

    Graham

    Hi Graham,

    Yes we are working hard to get the new CT software up and running. We will let everyone know when we have an official launch date.

    Thank you Rochelle.

    I only returned to CT a few weeks ago (when alerted to a particular thread) having dumped it about a year previously because so many assurances of working software had proved false.

    Knowing, from experience, that the period I had been away was easily long enough for the CC to have implemented software that works properly I had hoped to have seen that happen. It has been disappointing that such is not the case.

  • Briang
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    edited August 2016 #47

    Not upset in the slightest (takes a bit more than this)

    However, the club takes a membership fee each year from everyone, therefore it is not unreasonable to expect everyone to be able to enter club competitions without having to submit first to a third party data harvesting commercial company with dubious ethics.

    Exactly

    Most definatly

  • IanH
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    edited August 2016 #48

    No competition is worth joining Facebook for.......

  • harryb
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    edited August 2016 #49

    It seems as though this topic, if run as an opinion poll, is definitely leaning towards No to FB

  • eurortraveller
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    edited August 2016 #50

    Is the competition really, really hard like the crossword? 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited August 2016 #51

    Is the competition really, really hard like the crossword? 

    And will it have as many errors?

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited August 2016 #52

    Whether people like Facebook or not is neither here nor there. It has to be recognised that it is a very important means of modern communication and a way of communicating with thousands of people who would otherwise turn their backs on traditional ways
    of communication. Should the Club ignore this just because a proportion of it members don't like, don't understand it or are even frightened of it? Of course it shouldn't, it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am
    surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

  • avondriver
    avondriver Forum Participant Posts: 85
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    edited August 2016 #53

    totally correct David. At last some common sense,

  • Justus2
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    edited August 2016 #54

    It seems as though this topic, if run as an opinion poll, is definitely leaning towards No to FB

    I am not so sure, I have just had a look on FB and so far, at  the moment, 131 people have liked the page so that they get CC posts on to their timeline. Winking

    Edit : ( the CCC FB page which has been going much longer has over 60,000 followers )

  • DSB
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    edited August 2016 #55

    Whether people like Facebook or not is neither here nor there. It has to be recognised that it is a very important means of modern communication and a way of communicating with thousands of people who would otherwise turn their backs on traditional ways
    of communication. Should the Club ignore this just because a proportion of it members don't like, don't understand it or are even frightened of it? Of course it shouldn't, it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am
    surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

    Absolutely agree David.  Well put.

    David 

  • harryb
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    edited August 2016 #56

     it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

    ..........and so am I David. But like a lot of things with the club they seem to spend an age on making a decision.

    Like everything with technology those that don't, won't or can't will get left behind but will eventually pass on and so the problem won't exist.

     

  • bill
    bill Forum Participant Posts: 388
    edited August 2016 #57

    It seems as though this topic, if run as an opinion poll, is definitely leaning towards No to FB

    I am not so sure, I have just had a look on FB and so far, at  the moment, 131 people have liked the page so that they get CC posts on to their timeline.
    Winking

    Edit : ( the CCC FB page which has been going much longer has over 60,000 followers )

    Write your comments here...Up to nearly 16,000 now.

    Bill

  • RochelleCC
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    edited August 2016 #58

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  • SteveL
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    edited August 2016 #59

    Whether people like Facebook or not is neither here nor there. It has to be recognised that it is a very important means of modern communication and a way of communicating with thousands of people who would otherwise turn their backs on traditional ways
    of communication. Should the Club ignore this just because a proportion of it members don't like, don't understand it or are even frightened of it? Of course it shouldn't, it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am
    surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

    I don't disagree David. It is just that I have no intention of ever using it. It is fine for those that like it. I must admit though, I do find it a little annoying that a few organisations have dropped email as a means of communication. They seem to be
    going the same way as CD's. 

  • Fysherman
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    edited August 2016 #60

    Whether people like Facebook or not is neither here nor there. It has to be recognised that it is a very important means of modern communication and a way of communicating with thousands of people who would otherwise turn their backs on traditional ways
    of communication. Should the Club ignore this just because a proportion of it members don't like, don't understand it or are even frightened of it? Of course it shouldn't, it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am
    surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

    What the club should be doing is offering a level playing field to all it's paying members.

    Otherwise, special offers etc will only be for those on the facebook site.

    Oh, I see it has already begun.

  • Briang
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    edited August 2016 #61

    Whether people like Facebook or not is neither here nor there. It has to be recognised that it is a very important means of modern communication and a way of communicating with thousands of people who would otherwise turn their backs on traditional ways
    of communication. Should the Club ignore this just because a proportion of it members don't like, don't understand it or are even frightened of it? Of course it shouldn't, it needs to use every avenue possible to reach out to widest audience possible. I am
    surprised it has taken them son long!!!

    David

    What the club should be doing is offering a level playing field to all it's paying members.

    Otherwise, special offers etc will only be for those on the facebook site.

    Oh, I see it has already begun.

    It has