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  • craigriceC Offline
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    craigrice
    Power User Canning Team Orange Regular Contributors Veteran Masterbuilt
    wrote on last edited by
    #11

    Austin ,As someone that hates all forms of social media ,other than this platform I agree with your statement . I think the success of meatgistics is it is topic specific !

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    • AustinA Austin

      Chef
      Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
      Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

      I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
      Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

      Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

      While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

      The Most Important Stuff

      One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

      Departing ContestantD Offline
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      Regular Contributors
      wrote on last edited by
      #12

      Austin just felt like disagreeing . I have retained that right!

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        Daniel Cybulski
        Team Orange
        wrote on last edited by
        #13

        I only use them to get the extra monthly giveaway drawing point.

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        • Daniel CybulskiD Daniel Cybulski

          I only use them to get the extra monthly giveaway drawing point.

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          kyle
          Regular Contributors Veteran Canning Team Blue Power User Sous Vide
          wrote on last edited by
          #14

          Austin , very well written, good job. Meatgistics is a big family, not like other social media. Thank you for that

          hey vegetarians, my food poops on your food!

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          • AustinA Austin

            Chef
            Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
            Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

            I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
            Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

            Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

            While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

            The Most Important Stuff

            One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

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            PapaSop
            Team Orange Power User Veteran
            wrote on last edited by
            #15

            Austin
            Well said… It’s all about choices.
            Our choices are just that. Personal!

            Meatgistics… The only “social” site that makes any sense! Just a meat and “Orange” thing. undefined

            Don’t understand why I can’t change the font color… At least for the word “Orange”. Austin , you need to work on this! 🤣 🤣

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            • J Offline
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              JoeB
              Team Blue Masterbuilt Yearling Sous Vide Canning Power User Regular Contributors Military Veterans
              wrote on last edited by
              #16

              I have boundaries, if i like, enjoy, and exchange information and ideas without degradation then this is a good place to be. I’m new to the site, and i have to say that in all my ramblings i was always treated with respect, and welcome. All those i have encountered have approached this forum with the heart of a teacher. I confess, I’m just a challenged adult learner. Keep up the good work. It’s not a bad thing to agree to disagree… Life is good… There are always worse places to be and worse things to be doing. We’ve all been there, and got the torn tee shirt for it. Thank you Austin
              Joe, A Happy Member 😎

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              • AustinA Austin

                Chef
                Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
                Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

                I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
                Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

                Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

                While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

                The Most Important Stuff

                One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

                ChefC Offline
                ChefC Offline
                Chef
                Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Iron
                wrote on last edited by
                #17

                Austin Well stated. Before recent events, there are many things that I thought imposable in the United States of America. It now seems that nothing is off the realm of possibilities. Just imagine if an animal rights group wanted to censor Meatgistics as cruel.

                Think of all the veterans that are part of our family. To think they fort for our freedom of speech and what the social media’s censorship must mean to them. It is with all due reverence to them that I am appalled at social media as of late.

                Austin the Meatgistics platform is is my social media of choice. It is a place that I have met many wonderful people and have learned so much.

                Thank you Austin for the response. You have a loyal Walton’s customer for life.

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                • PapaSopP PapaSop

                  Austin
                  Well said… It’s all about choices.
                  Our choices are just that. Personal!

                  Meatgistics… The only “social” site that makes any sense! Just a meat and “Orange” thing. undefined

                  Don’t understand why I can’t change the font color… At least for the word “Orange”. Austin , you need to work on this! 🤣 🤣

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                  badfire2625
                  Team Orange Regular Contributors Dry Cured Sausage
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #18

                  PapaSop that is a great idea. In fact it should be the only font color. Can you imagine the frustration Team-Blue would feel if the only font color was Orange?

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                    mdseaside
                    Team Orange
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #19

                    Bravo! With you all the way.

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                    • ChefC Chef

                      Austin Well stated. Before recent events, there are many things that I thought imposable in the United States of America. It now seems that nothing is off the realm of possibilities. Just imagine if an animal rights group wanted to censor Meatgistics as cruel.

                      Think of all the veterans that are part of our family. To think they fort for our freedom of speech and what the social media’s censorship must mean to them. It is with all due reverence to them that I am appalled at social media as of late.

                      Austin the Meatgistics platform is is my social media of choice. It is a place that I have met many wonderful people and have learned so much.

                      Thank you Austin for the response. You have a loyal Walton’s customer for life.

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                      calldoctoday
                      Team Blue Power User Regular Contributors
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #20

                      Chef Don’t get me started this afternoon!

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                        processhead
                        Regular Contributors Power User
                        wrote on last edited by processhead
                        #21

                        I can fully appreciate why any business wanting to remain competitive would choose to link with some of the social media platforms out there. Regardless of your personal opinion about social media, in todays world it simply plays a big role as a way to have a presence and voice in the community, as well as a way to hear what consumers want. In this respect, it is no different than TV or print media was a generation ago.
                        As a point of comparison, some of us complain about commercials on TV or our distaste for certain newspapers, but most of us don’t dispute a business’s right to be a sponsor or to advertise with the media of their choice. In my opinion, social media is really no different in that respect.

                        Paul

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                        • AustinA Austin

                          Chef
                          Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
                          Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

                          I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
                          Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

                          Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

                          While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

                          The Most Important Stuff

                          One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

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                          calldoctoday
                          Team Blue Power User Regular Contributors
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #22

                          Austin Well, Meatgistics is my “Social Meatia” of choice, in fact it is my only. We just don’t do the others, but we like Meatgistics, it is our only social Meatia.

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                          • ChefC Chef

                            Austin Well stated. Before recent events, there are many things that I thought imposable in the United States of America. It now seems that nothing is off the realm of possibilities. Just imagine if an animal rights group wanted to censor Meatgistics as cruel.

                            Think of all the veterans that are part of our family. To think they fort for our freedom of speech and what the social media’s censorship must mean to them. It is with all due reverence to them that I am appalled at social media as of late.

                            Austin the Meatgistics platform is is my social media of choice. It is a place that I have met many wonderful people and have learned so much.

                            Thank you Austin for the response. You have a loyal Walton’s customer for life.

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                            craigrice
                            Power User Canning Team Orange Regular Contributors Veteran Masterbuilt
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #23

                            Chef what you said reminds me of a Charlie Daniels song !

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                            • AustinA Austin

                              Chef
                              Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
                              Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

                              I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
                              Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

                              Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

                              While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

                              The Most Important Stuff

                              One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

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                              Austin
                              I have boundaries, if i like, enjoy, and exchange information and ideas without degradation then this is a good place to be. I’m new to the site, and i have to say that in all my ramblings i was always treated with respect, and welcome. All those i have encountered have approached this forum with the heart of a teacher. I confess, I’m just a challenged adult learner. Keep up the good work. It’s not a bad thing to agree to disagree… Life is good… There are always worse places to be and worse things to be doing. We’ve all been there, and got the torn tee shirt for it. Thank you Austin
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                                I can fully appreciate why any business wanting to remain competitive would choose to link with some of the social media platforms out there. Regardless of your personal opinion about social media, in todays world it simply plays a big role as a way to have a presence and voice in the community, as well as a way to hear what consumers want. In this respect, it is no different than TV or print media was a generation ago.
                                As a point of comparison, some of us complain about commercials on TV or our distaste for certain newspapers, but most of us don’t dispute a business’s right to be a sponsor or to advertise with the media of their choice. In my opinion, social media is really no different in that respect.

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                                processhead Unfortunately social media has turned into a sewer pipe. I won’t be a part of it…

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                                  calldoctoday That wouldn’t be any fun…LOL

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                                    processhead Unfortunately social media has turned into a sewer pipe. I won’t be a part of it…

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                                    JoeB said in My Appeal to Walton:

                                    processhead Unfortunately social media has turned into a sewer pipe. I won’t be a part of it…

                                    We are in agreement on that. Personally, I choose not to use them for social interaction.

                                    However, if I was running a business and my success depended on reaching new and existing customers, I might hold my nose and get on those platforms in some way.

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                                      JoeB said in My Appeal to Walton:

                                      processhead Unfortunately social media has turned into a sewer pipe. I won’t be a part of it…

                                      We are in agreement on that. Personally, I choose not to use them for social interaction.

                                      However, if I was running a business and my success depended on reaching new and existing customers, I might hold my nose and get on those platforms in some way.

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                                      processhead I agree, my personnel feelings are aside from a business perspective. You will always get 10% that are unhappy just because they want to be

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                                        I can fully appreciate why any business wanting to remain competitive would choose to link with some of the social media platforms out there. Regardless of your personal opinion about social media, in todays world it simply plays a big role as a way to have a presence and voice in the community, as well as a way to hear what consumers want. In this respect, it is no different than TV or print media was a generation ago.
                                        As a point of comparison, some of us complain about commercials on TV or our distaste for certain newspapers, but most of us don’t dispute a business’s right to be a sponsor or to advertise with the media of their choice. In my opinion, social media is really no different in that respect.

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                                        processhead We still make every effort to refrain as a business & stay professional or at least only use professional social media if that is what you want to call it (social media). However, I will have to admit, it is getting more & more difficult & we seem to be the minority there, but I do understand your points by all means.

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                                          I have boundaries, if i like, enjoy, and exchange information and ideas without degradation then this is a good place to be. I’m new to the site, and i have to say that in all my ramblings i was always treated with respect, and welcome. All those i have encountered have approached this forum with the heart of a teacher. I confess, I’m just a challenged adult learner. Keep up the good work. It’s not a bad thing to agree to disagree… Life is good… There are always worse places to be and worse things to be doing. We’ve all been there, and got the torn tee shirt for it. Thank you Austin
                                          Joe, A Happy Member 😎

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                                          JoeB That is what “it is supposed to be about, no doubt”.

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