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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3296414, member: 76863&quot;]Have to disagree.&nbsp; Change for the shake of change yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to education and trying to get people interested in what you want, ALL venues should be utilized and done so properly.&nbsp; Certain entities in the hobby have realized the value of this and others are getting left behind (some faster than others) because they have&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can educate and draw interest in a lot of ways.&nbsp; Relying entirely on clubs or shows is going to get even uglier for those entities in the next decade or two.&nbsp; There is a place for all methods in the hobby but to ignore online ones that are global and can potentially reach 100s of millions of people or more just because it is new is penny wise dollar foolish.</p><p><br /></p><p>A single online video can reach more people than every show of the year combined and do so much faster.&nbsp; You can end up with millions of views in a year, the biggest shows won&#039;t even sniff that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing though is that at this point it&#039;s not just young(er) people using the internet.&nbsp; Plenty of people of &quot;collecting&quot; age do as well that may not be able to afford to travel to a show, not want to for health reasons, or just don&#039;t feel comfortable ect.</p><p><br /></p><p>While seeing things in person is always better it is not always practical.&nbsp; Furthermore, while GTG threads which I dislike for many of the same reasons there is a lot that can be learned online.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone wants numismatics to be a small elitist community (which some clearly do) than stick to the old ways.&nbsp; If someone really wants to see the hobby shared with others and grow more than it has embrace technology which has been around for decades now.</p><p><br /></p><p>The internet was the best thing that happened to the hobby in a long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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