I finally just took a look at the iFly FB page.
The content there is NOTHING like what the content here is, and hardly any of it is iFly-related, which is what I'm here for. Here's are the five most-recent posts I see on the FB page right now:
- Jeff's question about getting Garmin GTX345 ADSB-in data into iFly
- What is your favorite aviation phrase?
- What song do you consider to be perfect?
- Who's the coolest pilot you ever met?
- Brolin warning people about some FB scammer and how 40% of the people trying to join the FB group are probably scammers
I'm not judging--people obviously enjoy meaningless banter and perhaps innocuous feel-good engagement like that between AP and its user base is good for sales.
But to me, that's just a bunch of noise that I don't care about. If I want entertainment, there are thousands of sites on the web with content that interests me more than what I see on the AP FB page. There's nothing there to make me think, "Oh, geez, I've really been missing the boat here--this is the happening place I need to be!"
And there's almost zero content related to how to use iFly, or how to make it better. THAT's what I come to these forums for.
If there were more actual iFly-related discussions on the FB page and also an easy way to avoid the noise I don't care anything about, maybe I'd tolerate it. You know, like...a way to isolate messages in separate areas, categorized by topic, and you could choose to look at some and ignore others. Like maybe one for "non-iFly related chitchat", one for "general iFly discussion", maybe one for "iFly feature requests", maybe one for "iFly owner questions and answers", and maybe a few others.... Wouldn't that be great??
Maybe some day....