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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 8671773, member: 76863&quot;]You’re going to get a very mixed bag of answers here. Some people swear by them and others like myself couldn’t care less about them.&nbsp; As a collector there’s very little benefit to it, there’s unlimited information on the internet that does a much better job and in much more captivating ways. </p><p><br /></p><p>To be fair there was a time the ANA was a great and necessary resource, but that time has passed.&nbsp; It’s really one of those things a lot of people do because they’ve always done it.&nbsp; Their summer sessions for learning are good, but the ANA leadership for decades now has failed wholeheartedly in taking advantage of social media like the IG, TicTOk, YouTube etc which is where the younger people are going to learn.&nbsp; Before anyone starts about misinformation yes there is, but there’s a lot of good information as well and younger people understand that.&nbsp; Even a misinformation parking lot find video can lead someone down a rabbit hole to good videos so it’s not entirely bad. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like it or not that’s been the biggest draw for younger people and where a lot of the teaching will occur.&nbsp; PCGS has set a great format for the others to follow and which CAC has started to for how to use social media to get people excited and interested in coins.&nbsp; Even PSA has done live streams with Logan Paul opening old Pokémon packs which is one of the things that set the card industry on fire.&nbsp; Videos and posts don’t have to be an hour long and super dry and if they are you make some short clips of teasers that people can watch in a minute or less with a you want to learn more go here etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m aware that coin collecting will never be for teens as it takes money, but even middle aged people now grew up with the internet and a large percentage of the elderly used computers during their careers.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I just don’t understand the stubbornness.&nbsp;&nbsp; I get that a lot of people like books and magazines, but books and magazines simply aren’t the best way to get information out if the goal is actually to educate and not to make money.&nbsp; You can monetize views online anyways though[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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