Count me as a No on FB, also Twitter, and any other 'social network'. 

Old and curmudgeonly I am. Me and cane rattler.

Mike from Cotati

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 From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: List Member Count
 

Yes, like John said - the Vanagon List FB page has been around for sometime
now, a year or more and was started by a list member. It hasn't had much
activity at all until the last week or so - I think there have been maybe
10 - 12 requests to join the group in the last week.

I use FB a lot and in many ways some of it's features would be great for
this forum. Topics would be in a discussion format - pictures are easily
shared, etc. I use FB for several other smaller groups and have 2 different
accounts (a personal account and then a sterile nothing too personal
account to keep in touch with our marching band kids). FB works great for
me.

That being said I can see where FB could be a major pain for a group like
this.
1) Of the 800 members, I would be willing to say it's possible up to 1/3 of
our membership probably avoids FB like the plague.(just a wild guess)
2) As Roger mentioned there is the control factor - things posted on FB are
for all intents stored at FB and really "owned" by FB.
3) FB is mostly all or nothing - at least with the list as it is I can
easily save the e-mail I want to save and pitch the rest.

This list is great really. Sure we have our moments but that comes with any
community/family - and of course there is the eternal social vs. technical
debate. I think it ebbs and flows (we are in a technical period for sure).

It would be nice to have an easier way to share pictures - but I don't
think it's a list killer issue - we've gone this far without it� :)

Oh, and I have to train myself to stop trying to "like" list postings like
I do on FB - man that's a bad sign :)

Thanks,

Jeff
'85 GL (Gertie)
'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus