QR code?

[Shannon U.]

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[Leif A.]

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The QR code takes you to a Facebook page...I'm not a member...no help.

[Ed H.]

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I would not touch Facebookon a high dollar bet. TMI gleaned by those I do not want to have it. I guess the cop in me is showing.

[Harry S.]

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I would not touch Facebookon a high dollar bet. TMI gleaned by those I do not want to have it. I guess the cop in me is showing.

Ed, I agree. It's like leaving dirty little digital footprints that have a security problem.

[Michael J.]

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I have seen these things before, I always assumed they were some advertising scam for stuff I don't want. But I guess if they are advertising something you want, they could be useful.

[Brad Hillhouse (37766)]

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sigh. you think fakebook is the thing that is going to give away your hidden secrets? Then you must not be using any credit cards, making any purchase online, driving a car built after 1992 and have been wearing a full face mask 10 years prior to covid19. Your car knows your speed, direction and where you are at all times and transmits that data to big brother. Your computer knows every site you have visited and every online purchase and google has stored that information. Your phone company knows every private text you have sent and your credit cards show location and purchase data that is in a government computer. Your face has been photographed millions of times by both public and private cameras and that data is stored just waiting to be used against you. Your TV and your Ring doorbell and your smart home functions and siri are all collecting data on you that is already shared or can be easily obtained by big brother. Good grief, it takes your fingerprint just to turn on your phone - who do you think has that data?

But its fakebook that is going to be the end of your privacy??

All a QR code does is make it easier to log into a website with one click instead of trying to type out a long web address.

If you think you are going to stay "off the grid" by not being on fakebook, you haven't done enough research.

"we are borg, resistance is futile"....


Brad Hillhouse

[Owen L.]

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I have seen these things before, I always assumed they were some advertising scam for stuff I don't want. But I guess if they are advertising something you want, they could be useful.

They aren't purely used for advertising. In education, elementary students (like kinder to 2nd) use them for quick access to their digital reading library, assessment log-ins, and links their teacher wants them to go to. QR codes are merely shortcuts to a web-based URL address.

[Michael J.]

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Well, it has been many decades since my kids were in elementary school, so I am not familiar with other uses of these. But I know this is all not meant for people like me anyway, older people who see a cell phone as an emergency or traveling communications device or backup internet access when not at home with your laptop (my preferred way to use the internet). Actually, my cell phone is not even on most of the time. But I know young people see them as essential items to have constantly connected to them, so they understand all this.

[Terry M.]

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Since 2020 many restaurants use QR codes to access digital menus so they don't have to clean plastic menus or dispose of paper menus. I see a lot of help wanted posters in restaurants containing QR codes. I guess you can tell where i am hanging out.

The Cadillac & LaSalle club has QR codes in their club publication that link to additional photos relating to the article(s). This is a decided advantage to detailed technical articles and to articles about club events where additional photos beyond the limits of publication are useful. One can even zoom in on details of the on-line images for details lost on paper. The National Woodie club does the same.

QR codes are a way to reach the younger demographic that will keep this "hobby" going after us old fogies are gone.

[Michael J.]

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QR codes are a way to reach the younger demographic that will keep this "hobby" going after us old fogies are gone.

True, and that is a whole 'nuther conversation. I'm still searching for those 20 to 40 somethings that are attracted to C1, C2, and C3 Corvettes enough to want to get into judging and hauling them around the country.

[Leif A.]

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My concern is not the QR code...I understand what they do and what they're used for. I just have zero use/tolerance for Facebook and other social media. The QR code for the NCRS doesn't need to point to a Facebook page (where many members here on the TDB have no affiliation...and, never will).

[Michael J.]

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Ah but Leif, they are not interested in folks like you, they want a new demographic, and Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok is where they all are.

[Brad Hillhouse (37766)]

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Ah but Leif, they are not interested in folks like you, they want a new demographic....


Mike, as I see it, there is no "they", we should describe it as "us". All NCRS members should be on the same team working towards a successful club full of active members. We all should be interested in finding new members to keep our hobby alive and thriving. The facts of growing a larger membership is that we have a much higher chance of adding people that were born in the 1960-70s than the 1930-40's. I have been trying to find out the data on the last 50, 100, 1000 members to validate this hypothesis but so far I have not been able to get those numbers. Learning the ages and years of Corvettes owned would help us understand the demographic of new membership and give us a way to target advertising where it would be most beneficial. Just hoping new people randomly stumble on NCRS and join isn't valid business model.

So the question is how do we find and attract those members? Send out postcards? Write letters? I have seen handwritten letters signed by some of the Founders as they recruited new NCRS members. That worked great in the 1970s, but I don't see that as a valid way to reach new membership in 2022. I see social media sites as one of the primary places we can share the NCRS message because that's where our potential customers are every hour of every day.

For all the bad that is fakebook, I personally have found, met, recruited 34 new NCRS members because of a random meeting on fakebook. When I see someone on one of the pages I frequent, if they have the type of Corvette that appears like it would possibly be Flight or Concours worthy, I introduce them to NCRS. I fail many times, but tomorrow I try again. I may meet the next NCRS member that just bought his or her first Corvette and be posting pictures of it on Fakebook and that is my open door to share our message.

A hammer can cause great destruction or it can build something beautiful. Its up to the operator of the hammer what the end result is. Im going to use my Fakebook hammer to help build something not destroy it.

Brad Hillhouse

[Leif A.]

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OK...I have a smart phone and a land line. Can the QR code point to Facebook, as well as, other options. I understand (well, not really) those who enjoy all the new forms of "socialization" but there are still quite a few of us who enjoy a more traditional method of communication. I still read newspapers, too.

[Michael J.]

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Well, since I am not in the power structure of the club making decisions on these things, I don't see myself as "they". I spend much time (too much according to my wife) on social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I belong to many C2 Corvette groups on these, but I had never thought about interacting with anyone on those platforms about NCRS. Seems too cold, cumbersome, and detached, talking to people at car shows and cars and coffee in person is more my style.