[Dialogue] Facebook pros and cons

Mon May 3 09:44:44 CDT 2010

For what it's worth...I like the way the images appear in the second option
from Mobile Me.  I guess that has a fee, but the captions and clarity of
photos is appealing. I don't understand what else is involved, but I like
the photos. Thanks for sending them David.

Take care, Judy Lindblad

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Adam Thomson
<dmtmsn at language.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>  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
>
> END OF MESSAGE
>
> 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 (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
> Spiritjourneys.org <http://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
>  dmdunn1 at gmail.com<http://us.mc636.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dmdunn1@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
>
> My "MobileMe" gallery with the same photos, available to download
>  http://gallery.me.com/dmansel/100078
>
>
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