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They really serve two different purposes. Facebook is a conversation, here today, gone tomorrow. This forum is a serious effort to preserve exchanges between people who are interested in, or who have information to share about Missouri Pacific and related companies. In terms of volume of posts, you would see more on Facebook. Recently, the most active MP facebook site splintered into two groups, so its even more difficult to keep up. However, with that volume of posts comes the near impossibility of retrieving past posts. If you see a photo of interest, or read an exchange with good information on Facebook, you better save it then as an image and a text document, because as time goes on, it will become buried with newer posts, and the Facebook search function, such as it is, probably cannot find it.
Its relatively easy to transfer good information from Facebook to a much more permanent thread on this MPHS forum. In the same light, use of the Yahoo group also puts information in an area where it cannot readily be retrieved in the future. Try going to the MP yahoo group and searching for information from 2008 or so. Its almost impossible, and scrolling through the posts is often not functional either.
Bill Pollard
