The disdain of the young for email versus social media platforms (my
daughters are the same) is a conflict between immediacy and record keeping
- forgetting that with immediacy comes ephemerality. Ephemerality is only a
problem if you value what might be lost, and in a world of instant
gratification perhaps to the majority that is just unimportant collateral
damage. I use social media all the time, but I also like to record
information - horses for courses.
As someone indicated earlier, eBird is a great bridging platform. Permanent
record for important/useful information, and moreover, easy to log data to
from a smartphone in the field. Getting more user-friendly _and_ useful all
the time.
cheers
Lawrie
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:48 AM Steve Clark <> wrote:
> G'day all
>
> In my post which started this thread I mentioned the fact that Facebook
> isn't (as far as I know) searchable by Google, Bing etc. So an interesting
> behaviour observation someone posts today will be essentially lost to
> future birders. This was not the case with birding-aus which is archived
> and searchable.
>
> Apart from that I don't really care which forum people use. If you want to
> report something that people can access in years to come post it on
> birding-aus at least and Facebook as well if you wish.
>
> People rightly reject Facebook because of all the baggage that comes with
> it. Me too! However you can access just the groups on iOS and Android
> phones and tablets without all the baggage. Search your app store for the
> Facebook Groups app. There is no version for standard computers
> unfortunately (as far as I know).
>
> Oh, and ask anyone under 30 what they think of email as a means of
> communication. My three kids won't use it.
>
> Cheers
> Steve Clark
> Hamilton, Victoria
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