Did you know you all are "no better than Google?"

I've been keeping my own snakes for less then a year, got geckos for about 5, and for one or the other I'm still learning a lot. The only difference is where I take the information and really, Facebook pages are the worse "just like google" places. That girl must've been told so many times that she could just look up her information by herself or one person took her in and their word was law. I've seen both kind of person and it's weird to see happen. Some peeps have those 100s of snakes and still make mistakes, but its the ability to know when you are wrong and learn from your mistakes :#

This place is just so much more great to ask questions, even if I find them stupid, I know I'll get serious answers. I've seen awesome FB groups, but some are less newbie friendly or have too many parents looking for a pet for their child and have no idea what they want.

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Originally Posted by M.P.C

Ball python enthusiest isnt a bad group, im part of that one and everyone on there is helpful and knowledgeable... Only problem i have is the constant flow of people who claim to have read a ton of info and done all their research on bp care and always need to know what the basic husbendry is supposed to be like, what they should be using for heat or supstrate... But for the most part all the facebook groups ive joined are alot worse and the peolple running them arent much better or even mature at having discussions... Its just our way or you get the boot.

Here everyone is helpful, kind and appears to just be a big group of people with a common goal of helping THE SNAKE before holding someones hand

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I'm trying to join that group on Facebook but my request doesn't get accepted... I don't think I'm cool enough

Since all our posts are available on google I'm not sure why she differentiated the two sites. :P

I disagree according to my husband I am better than google :rofl:

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...les/Google.jpg

He really has that shirt BTW :rofl:

I need a shirt like that :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by M.P.C

Was she trying to get you to join "the ball python people" because she sounds like a member from that group, bunch of people who swear they know everything, but give a ton of wrong info and when you correct the wrong information you get grilled by the admins and a threat to boot if it happens again.

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Whaaaaaat? A site where admins threaten to boot you if you disagree with them? No way!! I couldn't imagine being on a site like that.

Remember what we told you about time and place for those comments? This is neither and is plainly just designed to stir the pot and get a reaction.

Persistently ignoring rules and trolling isn't tolerated on many sites. Do it again and any patience we have is likely to disappear. Fair warning.

Please relax. I was making a joke, with indirect sarcasm.

I am not trolling. I spend a great deal of time offering very thoughtful advice and information on here.

However Dr Del, your last post does prove my point beautifully.

In my vast experience, the only person who knows EVERYTHING about ball pythons is the one who just "rescued" their first ball python just yesterday from a pet store for $99.99 and by the way, needs to know if it can eat tortoise food and what exotic breed is it?

Reminds me of a grooming seminar I was attending and two young ladies struck up a conversation and asked my opinion on the presenter. When I disagreed with several of the person's major points, they got a bit snooty and asked why I thought I could possibly know better than someone who had been grooming her own show cats for 4(FOUR!!) years?
Just imagine the faces... "Perhaps because I've been grooming cats professionally for over two decades."

But of course, I'm not presenting a seminar. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let me, because having to hire a live person to BLEEEP all my cursewords during my talk would be pricy.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

In my vast experience, the only person who knows EVERYTHING about ball pythons is the one who just "rescued" their first ball python just yesterday from a pet store for $99.99 and by the way, needs to know if it can eat tortoise food and what exotic breed is it?

Reminds me of a grooming seminar I was attending and two young ladies struck up a conversation and asked my opinion on the presenter. When I disagreed with several of the person's major points, they got a bit snooty and asked why I thought I could possibly know better than someone who had been grooming her own show cats for 4(FOUR!!) years?
Just imagine the faces... "Perhaps because I've been grooming cats professionally for over two decades."

But of course, I'm not presenting a seminar. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let me, because having to hire a live person to BLEEEP all my cursewords during my talk would be pricy.

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LMAO!!!!


I find it pretty much the same on all those fb groups regarding animals. The sugar glider facebook groups are terrible...they skin you alive if you have "stupid questions", have a difference of opinion, or want to buy sugar glider supplies from any one other than the vendors in their group. I swear they consider themselves the Stepford Wives of the sugar glider world. I ended up deleting my facebook account anyway, cuz it didnt do anything for me.

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