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| David Loduha, from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shoots photos at EAA AirVenture and posts
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| Adam Paider and Ben
Wallander each said they use Facebook to keep in touch while on
the EAA AirVenture grounds. |
With technology and social media outlets
around every corner, guests at AirVenture can share the event with
people back home and keep in touch with friends on the grounds. We asked
several people, “How do you communicate with friends while here at
AirVenture?” and “How is the way you connect working for you?”
Adam Paider and Ben Wallander, who are
here for the day, said they connect using Facebook and haven’t had any
reception problems while here.
David Loduha, who is here from Milwaukee
for his third EAA AirVenture, said he shares the experience by taking
photos and posting them on Shutterfly, a photo sharing website. “I get
good feedback,” Loduha said. “My cousins and family like to check
them out.”
Loduha said he also uses an iPhone to
stay connected while at EAA AirVenture, and he’s been using Wi-Fi hot
spots without any problems.
Morty Lloyd and Andrew Godbold, both from
Chattanooga, Tennessee, arrived on Sunday and will be here through
Friday morning. Lloyd said he calls and texts people back home to stay
in touch. Godbold said he has a hard time sharing the experience. “How
do you share it?” Godbold said. “You have to come here and
experience it for yourself.”
Both men said they use iPhones to stay
connected, and both said they’ve had terrible reception while at EAA
AirVenture. “That hurts how easy it is to share the experience,”
Godbold said.
Many EAA AirVenture guests have taken to
Twitter to communicate using the #OSH10 hashtag. Sean Lee, better known
as @smirk233 in the Twitterverse, shared his reasons for using the
social media service. “It’s the most rapid way to keep in touch and
in the loop with a mass of people,” Lee tweeted. “Twitter was my
only way to figure out what was going on when it was Sloshkosh.”
However, some Twitter users are having
issues with reception at EAA AirVenture. “AT&T has definitely
failed at #OSH10,” Jason McDowell (@jasonmcdowell) tweeted. “My
phone says 3G, but the data almost never works.”
Even though it seems everyone is always
on their cell phone, some EAA AirVenture guests are taking a break from
technology. Adam Powell, who is here for the week from North Carolina,
said he’s taking a vacation from communication. “I’m probably just
going to step out for a week,” Powell said. “It’s not going to
hurt me.”
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