[Ipg-smz] of FB groups, and effective communication/archival, was: We need an alternative to our existing lists

[Perlow, Jason]

I don't think there is much value in long term archival of what we discuss
here. You certainly can search quite easily through a facebook group. I
have to do it all the time.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:33 PM M. Fioretti via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 17:58:05 PM +0000, Howard M. Cohen via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> > FWIW, and given the fantastic volume of messages back and forth
> > about this issue, I concur with Jason. A closed group is a great
> > solution that requires little administration or support.
>
> Regardless of privacy etc... Facebook groups are for totally
> throw-away material. There is no reliable way to search through them,
> and even if I were wrong on this now, there would still be surely no
> way period, by definition, to be sure that such a way still existed
> six months, or six days, after the switch is made. Ditto for
> bookmarking posts, or conversation. The slightest change in FB
> policies or privacy default will render them unusable, even if the
> post is still there somewhere. Social networks like FB are built to
> keep users in the present moment, without any hook to the past that
> the network can't rearrange as they please. It's their nature.
>
> ALSO: all URLs shared in FB have their tracking tag appended. Unless
> one removes it (= the ?fbclid part and everything after it) manually,
> sharing those URLs actively contributes to tracking by FB of
> (connections among) people even if they are not on FB. For some, if
> may be a non-issue. For me, it is why I very seldom share outside FB
> links found on FB.
>
> Marco
>
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