Van's LAST RVator!

[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by rjtjrt

My problem is I'm afraid of joining Facebook.
You keep hearing bad stories about once you put any info on there you can never get it off, such Glenn's experience.
To me it seems like an irrevocable step into the unknown, an unknown where there are plenty of horror stories.
So for me it's a no to Facebook.

I guess what no one seems to have mentioned is that you don't have to join Facebook to read everything that van's puts on their Facebook site (at last that is how I understand it. Much to the amusement of my own family, I have not joined FB yet either, and don't really see a need at this point - but I have so far been able to follow the "Near Real time RVator". Time will tell on the content....

Paul

[diamond]

I don't know anything about facebook, but my kids tell me I would need to have some friends in order to be on it. Is that right?

[roadrunner20]

No Facebook for me.
I prefer the "under the radar" as much as possible in the cyber world.
Oh BTW, I'm a system's developer and well aware of how information is shared.

[Alan Carroll]

So far there seem to be no real articles, only short announcements/company news. No doubt this is useful, but its not very satisfying for someone (like me) who looked to the RVator for deeper perspectives on building, flying, etc. Hopefully more in-depth pieces are planned?

[mburch]

After trying to follow Van's updates on Facebook for a few weeks, I realized I was missing important updates as they scrolled by amongst all the other Facebook noise. And since I'm a big fan of RSS, I found myself wishing I could just subscribe to Van's news feed in Google Reader, which is where I manage all my other RSS feeds. Luckily I found a tutorial on how to do this, so now I can use my RSS reader to see the Van's news. If you're an RSS junkie like me, just paste this feed link into your favorite RSS aggregator, and you should be all set... no more Facebook!

mcb

[humptybump]

Thanks! This is perfect for me since I use a feed reader all the time

[LeeM_2000]

Originally Posted by mburch

After trying to follow Van's updates on Facebook for a few weeks, I realized I was missing important updates as they scrolled by amongst all the other Facebook noise. And since I'm a big fan of RSS, I found myself wishing I could just subscribe to Van's news feed in Google Reader, which is where I manage all my other RSS feeds. Luckily I found a tutorial on how to do this, so now I can use my RSS reader to see the Van's news. If you're an RSS junkie like me, just paste this feed link into your favorite RSS aggregator, and you should be all set... no more Facebook!

mcb

RSS is definitely the way to go. I use News Rack for getting my Google Reader feeds on the iPhone. You can find it in the App Store. It is newsfeed-iPhone nirvana. I even use it for stalking mBurch's blog. He has a feed link at the bottom.

Caveat emptor--I do have black helicopters circling me wherever I go; so unless you're into that, I wouldn't recommend it.

[humptybump]

I'm now happily using the above mentioned feed option to follow Vans Aircraft's page on Facebook. I use the Reader App (yes, it's simply call "Reader"). I like it because it integrates the "Readability" formatting and supports InstantPaper and ReadLater.

[drycreek]

I wish Van's would go with a blog. I think it would work a lot better than Facebook.

[LeeM_2000]

A blog would work better?

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