Rifleman1776
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Do you think the internet and socail media has played a major part in the decline of our membership ? At anytime a potential candiate can at the press of a finger learn and read anything he wants about freemasonry (not just the ritual, but the problems that we try and fix behind the scenes without exposing to the public but some how always find it's way in a online article leaving a man saying I dont want to be apart of an organization like that ? Although it has opened many doors for education that we didnt once have.... What are your thoughts ?
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Organizations of all types are having a serious decline in membership, not just Freemasonry. There was a time when people needed Lodges, Granges, Churches, etc. to gather, socialize and exchange news. Telephones and TV changed all that. Younger people simply are not 'joiners'. I don't have an answer on how to bring it back. My Lodge has put on about a dozen MM degrees in the past couple years. After that we never see them again. I don't understand.