My little rant for the day

[Dearth]

Doing a vent rant

Part of it is the modern age of technology and part of it is looking for the fast and easy way to start up a salt water aquarium but I see way too many people using social media to start up a salt water tank. They want everything in short bursts and don’t take the time to read long articles basically they want everything in real time not smart time

Twitter is lousy as is Snapchat for getting information about starting up as is Instagram because only short bursts of information is given and never quite enough of the correct information add to that most people live by abbreviations now so you need a damn cheat sheet to understand what is being said.

FaceBook isn’t bad if used right but again too many people give information but nothing about how to use a product or where to look. Whenever I help people I write a novel because they need to understand how and what to do not one or two sentences with use this or do it this way with no information about why you do it or why it’s used this or that way.

This hobby has a very high turnover as it is using social media incorrectly increases the odds of people leaving the hobby due to misinformation or more commonly lack of proper information. I always tell people to visit three sites (Canreef, live aquaria and J&L aquatics) these three sites have all the basic information on starting in the hobby and each of these sites covers all the bases that the other two might miss.

It is simply amazing at how many people aren’t told about these and other sites as from what I have learnt talking to these people they are learning via social media which is a mistake in my opinion. They need to hear why so and so product is used and why this light is better than that light and so on not 2 or 3 sentences that don’t tell you a damn thing other than use this or buy this.

Sorry it’s my pet peeve

/rant over