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Find out what's going on?

I'm pretty sick of certain aspects of SM but it is how I find out about horse shows, training, clinics and demos.

How do people without SM find out what's going on horse wise?

Im hoping that there is an obvious answer so that I can delete it and be done with it!
 
I've already thinned my friends list. Apart from one distant relation that I can't delete my fb friends are fine. It's other people and just all the general guff that you see on SM 😏. My blocked list is longer than my friends list ha ha

Its handy for seeing what's going on horse wise but again the groupies of certain trainers really spoil things.

I pretty much want to live in my bubble but still access information about local horse stuff. Not asking too much is it? Ha ha
 
I only do Facebook, but rarely see anything that would offend. If a 'friend' repeatedly post stuff I prefer not to see then they are no longer a friend. You can unfollow goups whilst still being a member so unless you go looking for it, the posts from a group don't appear on your feed.
 
I'm not sure how I hear about things, I think people just tell me or text me. I might be missing out on all sorts without realising it!
 
If you go to the same venues then I find most have websites and calendars with shows and clinics.
If there are instructors that regularly run clinics you like then ask them to let you know
For riding clubs and local dressage groups I find a lot plan their timetable a long time ahead so I can go to their site and see when their events for the next year are.
I'm on a mailing list for local BHS events
Sites that do entries like myridingdiary and equoevents

TBH I do all the above plus fb as it's not all in one place!
 
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I'm not on social media - as in no FB, Twitter etc. I find out about events, clincis etc through a combination of looking at venue's own websites, reading the local horse free press (like Pegasus and Local rider etc.) H&H event guide, equo events, rider diary and picking up leaflets at tack shops / feed companies etc. I do occasionally miss out on small local events that I don't find out about until too late. But really nothing major. It does take some time to figure out which sources are most time efficient. But it is perfectly do-able. Not everyone is on SM and advertisers do know it.
 
It's my boring pony photos that are driving you off, isn't it?

I'd just unfollow / delete everything you don't like and only track pages / groups for clubs / events you're interested in. Plenty of folk manage without it, but they do miss stuff (even people on SM often miss stuff, or rather, the targetting isn't quite right - I find myself trying to discuss this with organisers from different sports quite often, but don't have much luck getting my point across).
 
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It's my boring pony photos that are driving you off, isn't it?

I'd just unfollow / delete everything you don't like and only track pages / groups for clubs / events you're interested in. Plenty of folk manage without it, but they do miss stuff (even people on SM often miss stuff, or rather, the targetting isn't quite right - I find myself trying to discuss this with organisers from different sports quite often, but don't have much luck getting my point across).
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Not at all, they're one of the highlights!!

It's more friends of friends and I see what they post because I'm friends with my friends 🤪 I've blocked the worst offenders but I cant catch them all!

I've unfollowed all groups apart from my favourite Candid Equitation page and some western selling pages. I've deleted loads of people and unfollowed those who's content I don't like. I cant control what some friends choose to share or comment on and I'd rather just not see half of the guff that I do. However I DO use fb for seeing what's going on so I would be reluctant to miss out on that 😬
 
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