What you say is true! As a devotee of Facepage, I have linked with people all over America and Great Britain in my love of obscure old baby-boomer tv shows and Hollywood movies. The arcane knowledge out there is amazing!
Personally, I see it as a good thing. It keeps people away from hateful politics as practised by our current media elites and the pols who love them.
I wonder if Ebay started it all?
I think they might have. So many things I love, I thought were lost forever. I found them on Ebay - a identical car to my first car, a cookie jar my mom had, etc.
When I was 12 my mom and I went into a thrift shop, and I found a book I begged her for - an old girl series book by Hildegard Frey from 1917. For years I tried to find another going into old bookstores but no luck. My first week on ebay I scored the rest of the series.
I love old kids series books. I have The Campfire Girls (Frey), Cherry Ames, Danny Dunn, Henry Reed, and original set of Henry Huggins, etc. And I can find a lot of info about them from people who just decide to “write a page about Campfire Girl books”.
It’s a strange time we live in.