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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2934126, member: 66"]This tends to be a catch-22 situation.  People moan about how there are no young collectors, and then they say never tell anyone you are a collector for reasons of security.  But for the most part no one becomes a collector without exposure to the hobby.  If no one talks about it, there is no exposure and no young (or new older) collectors.  Our security concerns are one of the things contributing to the decline. I think to a large extent this is due to exposure and how things are taught.  I once worked in a pizza parlor that had two dining rooms, a family side and a side with games and a couple pool tables that was frequented by the younger, "rougher" crowd.  My boss and I used to discuss politics and the world events and a couple of these guys started asking a few questions about things they had heard.  So we posted a world map on the wall.  They would come in and aska question and we would go over to the map, locate the area,and discuss what was going on.  This lead to some of these people just coming in for the discussions, with us and between each other.  They started paying attention to the news.  One night some new guy comes in, laughs at the map and tears it off the wall. The regulars about beat the daylights out of him.[/QUOTE]