I was actually half thinking about starting a new post about my experience on facebook but this topic seems suited for me to post it here...
It really bugs me how there's such a huge difference in collecting communities across different platforms, iv'e been a member on here now coming up to a year and a half and is actually the very first collector site of any kind iv'e ever joined, the community and the people on here is great and it's something that's made me want to stay. Whenever I collect something of interest, it don't matter if it's rare or expensive, extremely cheap or just outright quirky and obscure, Star Wars or not, I can show it on this forum and people here appreciate it, they appreciate it's historical value, it's condition, are genuinely fascinated by it and then actual meaningful discussions about the piece might follow, including how it also somehow played a part in their childhood too, and I find that stuff really interesting to hear how the thing that I loved also affected others. Nothing is ever mentioned about how much the item cost, unless of course it's relevant to why the OP is sharing it such as a problem with the item etc, but money is always the last thing on collectors minds here, they're just happy to have experienced someone sharing the vintage item with them and the fact that they got to see it....
Enter facebook :lol: I joined a MOTU collectors page not long back in the hope that I might find a couple of pieces eventually come up for sale that I was after, but eventually I tried to be more active with the community there and share some of my collection, after posting a picture of my Skeletor MOC to share with them I was met with the following responses... #LIFEGOALS, a 'bag of cash' emoji repeated 6 times, and a GIF image of Kim Kardashian flicking money out of her hand from a stack ( not joking ). Yet not a single mention of how nice condition it is or any kind of 'congratulation' about being able to find it, and then there's the amount of times iv'e seen people share something they've acquired where someone has commented and asked what they paid for it, like as if value and rarity is the only thing they're interested in.
If people wanna be that way then fine be like it if that's what makes them happy, it just annoys me a bit how different sites attract different people, it seems Facebook just attracts people with a kind of herd mentality where they just choose to follow the behaviour of everyone else on there, and all the others who don't act that way i'm guessing leave because of it, leaving only the sheeple on there. And i'm close to leaving this group myself very shortly after only several weeks because of the childish mentality and competition mindset that it breeds. I also remember my extremely brief time with Echo Base last year ( about 2 days long :lol: ) where somebody posted up a comment mentioning about their difficulty in not being able to find a VCJ for their collection for the right price these days, and some dickhead replied to it with "just gonna leave this here" along with an image of about 3 or 4 VCJ's, 2 of which were carded. What a way to ****ing show off to someone with "hey look at me, I have all these and you don't har har har", and I even remember someone replying to his picture asking "omg are you a Bond villain or something how did you afford all those?"
Facebook seriously is cancer!
Gears have officially been ground, aahh where's the coffee?! :lol: