[Dialogue] Facebook pros and cons

Sun May 2 01:17:21 CDT 2010

 From Adam Thomson, Dover UK

I agree with Colleen.

I would be extremely sorry to lose this medium as 
the primary way of accessing Wedgeblade, 
Springboard, ICA, OE - in short, access to the 
OE/ICA/Movement community online.

I understand the "pros and cons" approach, but I 
find Facebook to be a mysterious monster that 
will gobble me up (a reaction similar to my 
childhood "irrational fears" of things; that 
didn't make them any less real - to me). I 
personally have problems with Facebook, and avoid it as much as I can.

Please let us not abandon good ole email yet, as 
our main means of communication within our 
community - or at least, let's not, in the 
immediate future, deprive us Facebook-challenged 
members of access to Movement information, debate and deliberation.

Adam Thomson, Dover UK

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At 00:11 01/05/2010, you wrote:
>Sorry, I  guess I live in the dark ages.  or I'm 
>inter net  challenged.   Please, it's not pros 
>or cons, it's make things accesable so post in ways that are inclussive,
>thanks,
>Colleen
>
>--- On Fri, 4/30/10, David Dunn <dmdunn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>From: David Dunn <dmdunn1 at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Dialogue] Facebook pros and cons — and 
>help sorting it outTo: "OECommunity Community" 
><oe at wedgeblade.net>, "Dialogue' Listserv" 
><dialogue at wedgeblade.net>, "Springboard Listserv" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
>Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 3:31 PM
>
>Hello colleagues.
>
>I'm duly settled in Chicago: I know where to 
>sleep, where to eat, where to brush my teeth and 
>where to go to get online. Life is good. Pam and 
>Marge are hustling to prepare for the first wave 
>of colleagues. I put my weight to the wheel 
>finally this afternoon. You'll see stuff start to flow tomorrow.
>
>I'm still wrestling with Facebook. For all of 
>the hoopla, I think it's a mixed bag and not at 
>all intuitive. So here is my short list of pros 
>and cons, plus a couple of sentences about what I think it's good for.
>
>Pros
>• Facebook is popular and has lots of members 
>who can access ppeoples,' organizations' and groups' pages
>• Facebook is free
>• Facebook has some clever ways to facilitate 
>networking and sspreading the word about something of interest
>• Facebook has a simple way to keep friends up to date on whatt you're up to.
>• Facebook has the ability to handle 
>discussions, communicatioons and audio-video-photo media
>• Facebook is especially attractive to younger generations
>• [what would you add?]
>
>Cons
>• Facebook has powerful privacy controls, but 
>they're not thatt easy to figure out
>• Facebook has a learning curve re how to actually use it
>• Facebook has a complex user interface that takes some gettinng used to
>• Facebook tempts us to share more of our 
>personal informationn that it's prudent to share online
>• [what would you add?]
>
>On balance: what's Facebook good for?
>• Facebook is good for scanning a lot of 
>information onn what Friends are doing and 
>thinking: it's a "news stream or 'feed' "
>• Facebook is also good for easily sharing 
>information with the people you want to share 
>information with. Why wait until Christmas?
>• Facebook is especially good in making 
>connections andd spreading the word about things you value.
>
>
annd not good for?
>• In my opinion, Facebook is not a replacement for
>a "wiki" like our Repository,
>the ICA USA website (<http://ica-usa.org/>ica-usa.org) or
>a face-to-face virtual meeting platform (like GoTo Meeting, etc.)
>
>Bottom line
>I think I'll personally stick to using Facebook 
>as a sort of public face and portal to things 
>that I'm interested in. For the Archives 
>Project, we'll post photos and brief updates to 
>the Facebook page, add photos to my Gallery and 
>Flickr, and add my own and colleagues' blog 
>entries to <http://spiritjourneys.org/>Spiritjourneys.org.
>
>See the two attachments for help getting on top 
>of Facebook. The first is visual-spacial, the second is rational-verbal.
>
>To be continued.
>
>David
>
>
>David Dunn
><http://us.mc636.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dmdunn1@gmail.com>dmdunn1 at gmail.com
>
>Creative direction and spiritual companioning
>
>
>My Facebook page with International Conference Center photos
><http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056389&id=1021391491&l=cfb42f03a1>http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056389&id=1021391491&l=cfb42f03a1
>
>My "MobileMe" gallery with the same photos, available to download
><http://gallery.me.com/dmansel/100078>http://gallery.me.com/dmansel/100078
>
>
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