Facebook has a number of interesting Old Believer groups that you can join (become Friends with) and learn about the Old Faith. I especially enjoy "Crv Rusi-Starooveri", a Lipovan or Romanian Old Believer group. Although it is in Romanian (which you can read using Google Translate), it posts numerous photos and occasional videos of Old Believer liturgies. Their community seems particularly active.

Tom,

I have to admit a certain intrigue and puzzlement by the extent to which Old Believers and Old Ritualists are comfortable using the internet as a medium of communication. (I realize that there is the risk of thinking of them as one does the Plain Peoples - and that isn't at all an accurate comparison in many/most respects.) Still, it strikes me as a bit incongruous given some of what they've rejected over time.

Many years,

Neil

I see it differently, Neil, and please correct me if I am wrong.

I thought Old Believers/Ritualists wanted to preserve their old religious rituals and traditions. Nevertheless, they used modern tools of communication and education such as books and pamphlets to explain and defend their beliefs. Today, the internet can do that.

Personally, I find it very helpful to see Russian Old Believer websites from Eastern Europe and Russia even if I make clumsy translations with Google and Bing. Without these pages, I would have a more limited awareness and understanding of the Old Faith, and I would never have met the Old Believers in Poland.

Tom,

Don't misunderstand - I don't think it wrong for them to do so, not at all; I'm just always a bit surprised (obviously, I'm easily surprised since one might have expected me to get over it by the second time out ). Like you, my own understanding and knowledge of Old Believers would be much diminished were it not for their web presence.

Many years,

Neil