This is a very interesting thread, especially to see many peoples response to FB and clubs that have their own websites.
If no one in the club is able or have the time to produce a website then it is quite costly to have someone else produce and maintain the site. Even if this can be done in house there are still costs involved. This is money that clubs either don't have or can be used in a more constructive way.
Our website has had the Google analytics from the last three months show some interesting things. We've had very few hits in the last three months, and nearly all visits to the site are for the results page. The pages that people have spent hours producing are hardly ever seen, even when links are posted on oOple. And our website is one if the more professional and complete ones out there.
Facebook is a very convient free platform for clubs to communicate with racers and to reach out to the general public in a way that dedicated websites and oOple cannot do. Reviews, pictures and race reports can be quickly uploaded in a user friendly interface and much easier and convinient than Wordpress for most.
At the end of the day the world we live in today is used to having information that is very easy to access and in your face, many people will not search for it but expect everything they want to find in a central location.
What I see is Facebook is a dry useful tool to advertise our club and keep racers updated with our events and news.
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