Years ago friends convinced me to join FB, in the long run I found it annoying (but it did have a few good things also: very few).
So I ditched it, I never even signed up for twitter or anything like that.
People slamming the new III right and left when it was announced. I don't get it.
A friend of mine was telling me the other day the AF III has some sort of defect its all over facebook. I asked what? Turned out to be the lighting of the logo. There is a thread on this forum regarding that subject also, but on this forum the subject is a bit lite in nature, compared to facebook.
From what he was telling me I am convinced the is a small "community" (for lack of better term) out there, that just want this unit to fail right out of the gate. I suspect it is made up of people who use other products, and feel a real strong pride with them or people who cant afford this thing and just so jealous they feel the need to attack it. Or most likely a combination of both.
I have product pride also but not slamming other products, especially if it has not even hit the streets yet. And can also acknowledge when a competitor did something that is a big step up IMO. Ex: I like the original POD, everything after that sucked IMO till the Helix. Great step forward for Line 6.
Probably a bit of fear going on also (as to what I could not tell you) but when people lash out with nothing to back it up there is usually some sort of fear going on.
Just my 2 cents
John