Use stuff for what it's designed. Forums to share info and ask questions, facebook for showing off and telling people what you ate.
Telling people what you ate? When was the last time you used facebook? Those people moved to Instagram 5 years ago. Instagram is now for sharing pictures only now and facebook has been the platform for sharing ideas, news, and projects with pictures and descriptions. If you have a "friend" who posts pictures of food, you can always "unfriend" them to keep your newsfeed completely useful and informative.
The "kids" today will not join facebook, they use snapchat. I asked some kids why they don't use facebook, and they said "ewwww! no way! my parents are on facebook!" With more than a quarter of the worlds complete population using it to exchange information and ideas, and over 80% of people in the US, with those age groups under 18 and over 65 showing lower numbers, while the age group 25-34 facebook reports 58 million users in the US, which is pretty much everyone in the US 25-34!! While the age group 35-44 and 45 to 54 just showing slight progressive declines.
Just saying while 10 years ago many of the fears above you guys mention might have been considered valid, it's completely different today. I'm just encouraging you to try something new, and if you still don't like it, then don't use it again, but at least try. If you're not open minded to consider a different viewpoint, how are you any different than the uneducated, racist, redneck wearing a red MAGA hat made in China who you ask "Why do you like someone who lies all the time?" And they reply "no he doesn't! He never lies!" And you ask if they ever watch anything on TV besides Fox news, and they say "of course not, it's the only station that tells the truth! Plus I lost my remote years ago, I watch Fox News 24/7!" All you can do is shake your head and walk away as you feel they are beyond help.
My point is when you make up your mind, the truth about something can change, but if you've convinced yourself of something and aren't open to adjust that decision based on changing facts as time goes on, you will be stuck on the incorrect side of things and not realize it, yet still believe you are correct. Does that make sense?
Just be open minded to new ideas and here in 2018 all of you try once more is all I ask. Theres 10-20 times more Zero Motorcycle activity on the Zero facebook owners group now than there is here and it's growing more and more everyday it seems. While a year ago it was perhaps equal, and 2 years ago it was more active here, I'm just saying the times are changing and if the trend continues, you will be out of the loop if you only look here for new information in the near future.
My point was to just inform everyone who is not on the group, that there is perhaps 2000% more activity on the FB group and new owners each day posting pictures of their new bikes and asking simple questions and we all love it, and then there are the complicated issues which has been a huge discussion with perhaps 50 to 100 posts or comments about the concerns over the new firmware. I think there are 2 threads here that haven't been talked about in days or weeks.
Be open to try something new, as the trend is shifting in that direction, and if the trend continues, a year from now it will only be more obvious. Use both, don't avoid EMF by any means, but if I poll the hundreds of new 2017 and 2018 Zero owners on the group, I doubt too many of them are even registered here. I have been noticing this trend for a while, and it's becoming more and more apparent all the time. And after the most recent EMF shutdown, I felt I'd share as if you don't use both you don't know.
I've spent enough time explaining it, and repeated the important points multiple times, you can do what you want and ignore the facts if you want. Just try not to act like a Trump supporter does is all I'm saying. All of us on this forum are smart enough to use our brains and not be incorrect just because we are that stubborn. Or at least most of us are. There is no harm in trying something new, at least for a day. If you can't bring yourself to do that, well, I don't even know what to say. Wear your MAGA hat proudly I guess is all I can.
edit: sorry for bringing Trump into this, I was just using him as something everyone can agree on as ridiculous as no one on this forum being someone who is open minded enough to try something new. Because if you weren't that capable, you would have never bought a Zero to begin with. So I was just trying to drive that point in with something we are all unfortunately way too familiar with.
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