text: I don't speak up a lot. My experience with the new recruiting site went thusly- I did agree to sign up as State XO (I have been the SM liason for our state), my CO and VO did not and appropriate personnel was notified. I was told ALL members needed to sign up (recruits and current). I delayed to put it to our State Leadership and felt pressured that we needed to be on there. I believe some states may have left over this (among other real or imaginary issues). The saving grace for my state is that we did NOT put our members on there, but new recruits that may have become members were exposed before even getting into the family. I've seen people name drop, have multiple mutual friends, drop a local hangout as ways to create confidence and try to bypass our security locally. Why on EARTH have we done the same Nationally? I've never met Sneddon. And ya know what? I've never met Ted Cebula AZ SVO/Sec/ZIII CO . I don't know him, he doesn't know me. Same for a lot of the rest (sorry Ted for picking your name to tag it popped up first). There's no hiding anything from any platform anymore. And I do have to ask.....why? Why do you care if you're outed as a member of a group you're proud of? Cuz your local crew isn't strong enough? Cuz you don't have community support? Cuz you're in a Blue city or state? Cuz your income is from a liberal employer?....I get it. But a lot of us have lost a lot already and it's time to stop with the BS and ass kissing to name recognition. Start working on listening to the people that are looking for or requesting changes/direction/support. Locally, an 18 year old suffered a major sport injury. The "community" rallied. GoFundMe, School fundraisers, and the Boston Bruins stepped up. Raised 100s of thousands of dollars. Why? Connections. Who do you know? Who do you know that knows someone? Why can we not raise the same when our members need help? Why can we not come together for disaster relief like we used to?FB took down a lot of networking, but it was never secure and I honestly can't trust that anything else put up will be secure either. I know I'm rambling, my apologies. Pick it apart if you want. I'd rather see some new ideas hatch out of it....