David,
PBSS has a Facebook Page and it is up to date... last post December
21st, 2013, not in April, you have to be a member to see the posts... Duh!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/102420208204/
But with that in mind, who appointed you the official unofficial
re-caper of Facebook cave related groups?
99.99 % of the people who create or maintain these cave related Facebook
Group pages are volunteers, hadn't known of many getting paid to do
that. I am glad we have them at all.
Most of these groups are like the grotto web pages and should be
informative as to the date and time & place for the meetings. And any
other grotto related information.
While some of your emails I ignore, I get tired of you ridiculing cavers
and now volunteers in a public forum like this mailing list.
And you wonder why lots cavers don't care for you?
If your doing all this "research" then research who maintains these
groups and notify them individually.
Just my thoughts,
Bill
On 1/4/2014 11:49 PM, David wrote:
This is just a recap of the current status of Facebook related
caving sites in Texas. This post is intended for newbies, but also
shows some of the areas for improvement in using Facebook as a tool
for cave related communication. ( Disclaimer: Please ignore if you are
a Facebook hater or disinterested in anything I have to post. )
If you do not wish to use Facebook, or follow any of the sites below, you
should at least check out the page, "Cavers of Facebook," as that is an
international site that post very interesting current events.
State-wide groups:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/TexasCaveManagement/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/28567352179/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/418030138211479/
Grottos:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/443324142423059/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BexarGrotto/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/102420208204/
( last post in April ?? )
https://www.facebook.com/pages/DFW-Grotto/328738567141784
( last post 20 months ago )
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cowtown-Grotto/273063512785471
( page-manager indicated in June that page was not getting updated )
If the A.S.S. has a page, it looks forgotten, or I can not access their official
page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aggie-Speleological-Society/48239927150
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lubbock-Area-Grotto/175254709161485
( appears to only be used to announce upcoming meeting date )
I could not find a link for UT Grotto
Maverick Grotto's attempt at a virtual Facebook grotto seems to be in limbo.
( Right ?? )
Commercial Caves:
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https://www.facebook.com/cwanTX
https://www.facebook.com/naturalbridgecavernstx
https://www.facebook.com/InnerSpaceCavern
https://www.facebook.com/Cascadecavernstexas
https://www.facebook.com/cavernsofsonora
Longhorn Caverns link is fubared
https://www.facebook.com/WonderWorldCaveAndPark
( not much info about cave )
Non-commericial caves:
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kickapoo-Cavern-State-Park-Texas-Parks-and-Wildlife/118032881613887
https://www.facebook.com/SaveBrackenBatCave
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Preserve-Protect-Gunnels-Cave/111719558859888
( inactive )
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Old-Tunnel-State-Park-Texas-Parks-and-Wildlife/446917395333793
https://www.facebook.com/groups/109179009103131/
Nature groups:
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https://www.facebook.com/BatCon
https://www.facebook.com/groups/213300932024864/
( currently struggling to stay afloat )
Texas cavers:
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Only a wild guess of about 400, but no idea how many are actively post caving
related things on their own Facebook page. The following are just examples
of cavers who post things about caves on their personal Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/caverarch
https://www.facebook.com/galen.falgout
https://www.facebook.com/bill.steele.587
https://www.facebook.com/cavebiology
You could say there are about 600 Texas cavers on Facebook if you count
arm-chair cavers, or people that were once cavers, but have kind of dropped
out or gone on a hiatus, but they, like me, never or seldom post anything about
caving on their page. But the TSA page shows 611 Facebookers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/28567352179/members/
Feel free to correct me.
David Locklear
independent arm-chair caver ( semi-retired ) in Harris County, Texas
NSS # 27639
P.S. Here are some other pages worth glancing at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NSS2015/
https://www.facebook.com/nss75th
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