[Dialogue] Facebook pros and cons

[nancy]

AMEN! ADAM!
    I'M TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH SOME OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY,  BUT THERE'S JUST MORE THAN i CAN GET MY FIFTH GENERATION MIND AROUND AND KEEP  FOOD ON THE TABLE!
        NAN GROW
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Adam Thomson 
  To: Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 2:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Facebook pros and cons


  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.


      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


      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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