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

[Sharon Fisher]

I disagree with both of those.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 11:46 AM Perlow, Jason via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> 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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