Social Media Etiquette on the lake?

[rbh]

Re: Social Media Etiquette on the lake?

As long as you don't do it on the lake I guess. Iboats IS social media.

Help, so I am stuck in the middle of the lake and my thingamabob is blowing smoke out of it what can I do? :faint2:

 

[GA_Boater]

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Help, so I am stuck in the middle of the lake and my thingamabob is blowing smoke out of it what can I do? :faint2:

Serial number? :lol:

 

[500dollar744ti]

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It never seems to fail that several of the people invariably are more preoccupied with taking pictures and posting to facebook in real time than they are actually interacting and collectively enjoying the lake itself. For example, last time out, I stopped the boat to swim and I was in the water for 10-15 minutes before anyone else got in because they were all updating their facebook statuses and uploading pictures to their pages -- No Kidding!

It doesn't bother me, I don't have time to take pictures while boating but I do appreciate them. After a day of boating, I usually get home to find a lot of nice pictures taken on facebook.

Stuff like this

 

[bruceb58]

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I don't like posting times when the family and I are away from the house.

I tend to agree with this too.

 

[JB]

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iboats Boating Forum is NOT social media. It is a message board.

 

[jumpjets]

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I don't much like the continuous online stuff, but I'd rather have my teenage daughter checking FB every now and again while on the boat than have her not want to come with me.

THIS is why I don't mind my wife being head's down in her iphone. I'd rather her stay pre-occupied with that than complain that she doesn't want to be there, it's too hot, I'm not driving fast enough, etc...

 

[moosehead]

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iboats Boating Forum is NOT social media. It is a message board.

I believe most would consider forums and message boards a major component of social media.

Social media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Air Traffic]

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Don't run into that problem just because where I boat as soon as you leave the marina you lose a signal for your cell. As for going out to eat try this, when you are seated have everyone place there phone face down in a stack. First one to check there phone or answer a call buys the dinner

 

[saumon]

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I collect everybody's phones "for safety" at the beginning of the ride and have them deposited in a dry box, after pointing out how poorly salt water and electronics co-exist. I've yet to have anybody decline the offer.

Same here. First thing I do before leaving the dock is getting my dry box out of the console and putting my cellphone, wallet and car keys into it then, I handed it to my guests. My excuse: if anything happen (got in the drink, big wave, etc.) , you won't loose them. I've also yet to face a rebuttal but, then, they're mostly fisherman so spare time on the water to update your FB profile may be more limited...

 

[H20Rat]

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Just get a pocket jammer some are no bigger than cellphone and will jam all signals within a 30-40ft radius works well at the movies,restaraunt or a day on the water

Although highly illegal and the fine is extremely large! Fine on a boat if nobody else is that close to you, not ok in a restaurant or movie theater. (keep in mind some restaurants use cellular data connections for credit card readers)

 

[agallant80]

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It does not really bother me. When people come out on the boat they are just tagging along. Im going to do what I want (swim, drink etc) weather their face is in their phone or not. Helps that most people I take out on the boat are the same age as I am and we all do the FB thing.

 

[spdracr39]

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It's not just there, go anywhere and it seems like an addiction....probably is.

Absolutlely. It is the Heroin of todays world.

 

[dvtran]

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When my wife and our friends are out in our boat. The phones are usually in the glove box staying dry. It is the only place and time that either me or my wife are not on our phones doing something. It feels liberating not checking your phone or browsing random crap every five minutes.

This is what we should be enjoying because it leaves as fast as it comes

 

[greenbush future]

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I love turning my phone off, and the more time in the off position the better. Facebook is not a form of communication I enjoy, want or care about. When a electronic device takes priority over human presence, I think some have the wrong idea about social interaction. I view it as a fad to some degree that will eventually be much less important than some feel today. Turn it off and talk!!

 

[joemac356]

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I finally deleted my FB account.
All it did was annoy me. I kept 'hearing' from people I never really associate with; junk emails trying to get me to sign up for one scam or another. It seems they hack into FB email address books and then target those who are on the lists.
I got so sick of it that I just did away with it and now I don't get those junk emails any more.

I view the cell phone/texting as the CB radio of the current decade.

 

[gtochris]

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I looked around and saw two men and a lady (probably early 20's) sitting at the dinner table together, none of them were talking, none of them were even looking at one another. They all had their phones in hand, facebooking, texting..whatever.

I just thought to myself and told my wife "this is sad, this is the way everything is going.. these people cannot even enjoy one another's company and have a conversation over dinner, they have to be on their phones the whole time"
:

I've made that same observation.

I am 30 and my partner and I still have a regular phones, basic texting plans and other than a few times that having the internet on the fly would be helpful- I am perfectly content with the level of technology in my life!

 

[bruceb58]

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iboats Boating Forum is NOT social media. It is a message board.

Kind of like Twitter!

There is a good definition here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.

Sounds like iBoats to me!

 

[saumon]

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I was about to delete my FB account but I'm glad I didn't: that's the way the attorney of a passed away African billionaire, of whom I'm apparently a relative, found me...:joyous:

 

[H20Rat]

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I finally deleted my FB account.
All it did was annoy me. I kept 'hearing' from people I never really associate with; junk emails trying to get me to sign up for one scam or another. It seems they hack into FB email address books and then target those who are on the lists.
I got so sick of it that I just did away with it and now I don't get those junk emails any more.

There are better methods than deleting, but nobody actually does those. First is crank up your privacy settings. Then unfriend anyone that isn't actually a friend. That should dramatically clean up the garbage, but there are a couple more things to do... Click on the 'ignore' button on any game/app invites, and remove any personal information in your own profile.

Deleting it is a bad idea for a couple reasons, more and more communication is moving to social media, and deleting it just hurts yourself, nobody else.

 

[sickwilly]

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Some of us are happy to have all the communication that moves to social media miss us right on bye. I guess they cannot spam me, contact me, bug me, if I don't join in. That is all good to me.

If a tree falls in the forest and I don't hear it, do i give a crap about it? Nope.

Stingray seemed to move much of their effort on their private forum to facebook and encourage us all to join. No thanks. I like their forum, but don't need their facebook.

I have learned to fix and solution a ton of things and have found the internet to be an asset. Everytime it has been a forum. Some I have belonged too, some I just found and read. The record of information that I have found on forums like this are super valuable.

No time have I ever searched for something and found a solution via facebook or twitter, or any of the others.

Thus, I come here and enjoy, read, learn, and it is not about "socializing". I don't need iboats to socialize. I do quite well with "conventional" ways of socializing.

And I just bought my new prop from Iboats to be sure and help support this wonderful resource.

Yup, I am a dinosaur. But hey, I am the minority. I still have a home phone and still have the news paper delivered too, so do not listen to my kind.