I think it is not fair to say that Facebook is misleading, not accurate or a place where people exchange bad information.
There are enough members in the various groups who have a lot of knowledge and who correct misinformation. Some of these persons are not active on this forum.
Besides that, many of the E9 Forum members are active on Facebook.
I joined Facebook many years ago and joined over 100 groups. For me it's an easy way to connect with people from all over the world. I'm still learning every day, not only about E9's, I'm interested in all BMW models from the sixties and seventies.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying FB is the place to be. The various Forums are the best option.
I think no one here is for shutting FB off for E9 fans.
The real problem for FB is the form it is organized - an info stream.
FB ... and participation in many groups is great opportunity - no doubt.
As Chris mentioned above it was proven this forum is an essence of the information and finding posts from many years back is an easy task.
I'm happy for people have time and energy to talk and read hundreds of posts daily. Maybe I'm different, but I can read even all posts appearing daily on here.
For some publicity shown on FB is not the way they would like to be "available" to the World and security settings on FB are not recommended for the active FB user as they are cutting you from the cooperative and international information exchange.
I do not know how long FB will exist. We know how many other messaging platforms have gone and all the information has been lost forever with switching off the servers.
I'm really happy this forum is still widely used as many of forums passed away. Maybe it is caused by the ages of experience of the many users. I hope it will never end.