Angela,
Your personal details would not go into the Birding-Aus Facebook page
unless you provide them. How else do you think they would be obtained
and posted?
Carl Clifford
Angela McGuire wrote:
Hi All,
I am not to keen to have the facebook set up as I am not in favour of having my
personal details displayed for all to see (e.g. drunken photos from the weekend
may be one example). Not that my involvement is the be all and end all but I am
merely stating my reasons as others may have the same reasons not to be
involved. Unless a group set up is different?
Angela
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:20:38 +1000
From: "Katherine Bronte" <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Facebook and Birding-aus
To: "Dave Torr" <>
Cc: Birding Aus <>
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Maybe a group and a link could be set up.
I like to think of Facebook as huge social experiment. Also allowing
opportunities for others to learn somethings in a different way. Some of the
applications are crap but some can be used as learning tools.
The question of Gender and Age......statistics of course - statistics!!
Katherine
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Dave Torr <> wrote:
I can see some benefits for attachments - but as I said I see no reason
why
you don't just set up a group (maybe Russell would object if you called it
Birding Aus!) and see what happens - I would definitely not be too happy
if
"normal" posts started to appear there and we ended up with two parallel
birding aus systems that we needed to read! But the market will decide -
if
people prefer Facebook your system will get users and BA will wither and
die
- if not then the converse will happen.
(I am naturally suspicious about any site that requires my gender and date
of birth before allowing me to register)
2008/8/29 Kurtis Lindsay <>
Graham,
Adavantages of a facebook group include those I listed in my previous
email
"It would be an easier way to post links, videos and pictures without
having
to go through other sites like photo bucket.com. At the same time, I
believe it would bring the already friendly, personal Birding-aus to an
even
friendlier level, to a level were listers can get to know one another a
little better just like members of a club."
Currently, to post an image or video on the BA list, you must log into a
seperate website and attatch your pictures throught that, then make sure
it
is of the right size etc before you can paste a link to it on a
Birding-aus
bound email. With a facebook group, videos and photos can be attatched
directly onto the page.
The benefits aren't endless, so I'm not going to lie or try and over
glorify facebook, I don't even work for them! I am simply putting
forward
an
idea.
If a group like this was set up on facebook it would be entirely up to
the
individual what they post on it, when and where they access it, how long
they look at it let alone whether they even join. I understand many
workplaces frown upon access to such social networking sites on their
computers, and I'm definately not forcing anyone to do so.
Regards,
Kurtis
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