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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2810232, member: 76863"]Using old measurements for collecting is certainly antiquated and something that a lot of the doom and gloom crowd has ignored. My point is not only about how the internet changed the landscape but really the positive impact it has had overall. All those eBay sales aren't just the people you would see at a coin show. There is a lot of evidence of a very healthy hobby overall if people actually looked for it. The hobby will survive, it will just continue to change like everything does</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now take those studies into perspective. I could be exposed to more in one day then a 70 year old would have been 20 years ago while just being on a tiny part of the internet. It is all relative, tiny parts of the internet is still a vast amount of information. Also it isn't really young people answering those nor do people generally answer completely honestly on those. One thing you can say is different generations use it differently. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So in other words get off your lawn?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2810232, member: 76863"]Using old measurements for collecting is certainly antiquated and something that a lot of the doom and gloom crowd has ignored. My point is not only about how the internet changed the landscape but really the positive impact it has had overall. All those eBay sales aren't just the people you would see at a coin show. There is a lot of evidence of a very healthy hobby overall if people actually looked for it. The hobby will survive, it will just continue to change like everything does Now take those studies into perspective. I could be exposed to more in one day then a 70 year old would have been 20 years ago while just being on a tiny part of the internet. It is all relative, tiny parts of the internet is still a vast amount of information. Also it isn't really young people answering those nor do people generally answer completely honestly on those. One thing you can say is different generations use it differently. So in other words get off your lawn?[/QUOTE]
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