I am sure given recent news reports people are starting
to think about dumping facebook, so how can we help
people, ?
Paul
You say that, but even after the initial
uproar around Cambridge Analytica the majority of Facebook
users didn't stop using Facebook.
I really think it is worth maintaining a
presence on the biggest social media network, and by
maintaining I do mean posting things to it periodically and
adding our events to it. I'm not saying we should all be
Facebook users, I'm not saying we should be praising
Facebook as the lord of all things, I'm not saying we should
even be using it as a primary platform... just that we
should keep our presence there as a means to be visible and
hopefully attract some more new members.
I am a Facebook user. I find it a useful
platform to keep in touch with friends and to gain business
contacts and leads... because my friend are on it as are my
business contacts and leads. There is a *very* good chance
that there are people locally who use Facebook who have an
interest in Linux, or at least they've heard about it and
are curious, but have no knowledge of the LUG. If only there
was a way to get our name in front of those Facebook
users...
If you
(not you specifically, Paul, but the impersonal 3rd person
pronoun "you") are not happy to use Facebook then nobody
is forcing you to do so. Ooh, look at that... freedom of
choice being discussed on a Linux mailing list... who'd've
thought it.
Grant. :)