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Re: Recruiting Young Adults
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:43 am
by tahanson43206
For FOQ1 re new topic...
Thanks for creating this important new topic, and for providing a sobering opening statement.
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Recruiting Young Adults
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 1:25 am
by FOQ1
Team,
In my opinion this forum (new-mars.org/phbBB3) is the wrong venue for a project that includes a large number of young people.
The online forum format is 1990s technology. It was arguably obsolete before our target audience was even born and certainly is now. You might have noticed that there was close to zero people with "2" in front of their birth year contributing to the old forum. And forums are problematic for a number of security and bot reasons. The prior forum suffered from a fundamental flaw that is essential to the nature of an internet forum that bots and hackers have gotten very skilled at exploiting them and will continue to do so as long as doing that is profitable.
I think young people can be recruited to somewhere but this "old people" legacy communication format is going to have a major 'ick' factor. Listen up, it is creepy to them. I doubt more than 5% will have enough interest to jump through the registration hoops. (Oh yeah, they don't like 'registering' either. They like privacy. Part of why this is creepy to them.) If we are going to be serious about creating a place for the next generation of STEAM and Space pioneers, and/or a permanent archiving tool, we have to modernize. We need rich images with embedded text, that are set up as links to additional (rich) content, and maybe QR codes. Everything should be mobile friendly. Additionally, content must be supported with short and long form video. I'm not sure if the young people still engage with "podcasts." Someone might want to take the lead on researching what type of media is preferred by the 18-25 cohort. And 18-25 was chosen because it has been considered a key marketing demographic since the 50s. That is how the data will be published. A secondary effort into the next age cohort tier should probably follow.