I have both, but feel more comfortable with emails. I'm barely taking a look at the Legacy section of Facebook.
Georges -----Message d'origine----- De : LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> De la part de Michele Lewis Envoyé : 12 mai 2020 11:32 À : Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Objet : [LegacyUG] Facebook I encourage you to join our Legacy User Group on Facebook. I know there are some of you that say there is no way you will ever get on Facebook but you can join Facebook and set your privacy so that you won’t get friend requests and no one can see what you post. The group itself is private so anything you post there isn’t seen by anyone except the other group members. You are missing a lot of stuff by not being there. I can’t cross post everything that I post there and I post quite a bit. I readily admit that my attention is with the Facebook group because I can do so many more things there than I can here. You can use screenshots and video clips which you can’t do here. You can explain a problem better with a screenshot and you can understand solutions to problems better as well with screenshots. I (and others) can upload files. For example, periodically I upload a pdf that has clickable links to all of the Tuesday's Tips from the Legacy Newsletter/Blog. John Lisle upload a great series with how to work with the custom geo code files in Legacy. The Facebook group is searchable and you can also use hashtags. You will see announcements from the staff when we need to get important information out. All events and webinars are announced to give you a heads up without having to monitor the webinar webpage. When an update is released it is announced here immediately. Another advantage, which I honestly wish I didn't have to use, I and the other admins/moderators can delete posts. I can also stop the commenting on a post if I need to. On the mailing list if someone posts something against the rules there isn't much I can do about it. I can remove the person but the posts stay and conversations go on and on that really need to be nipped. Even when I tell people enough is enough it goes on. That doesn't happen on Facebook. I monitor the list pretty much all of my waking hours. We have beta testers and power users that are monitoring the list when I actually sleep 😊 As of right now this mailing list has 1531 member. The Facebook group has 21,941. The Facebook group has 5 administrators and 2 moderators. It is also monitored by several staff members and some of our top beta testers and translators. I hope I see more of you there. Michele Simmons Lewis, CG® Legacy Educator Legacy Family Tree/MyHeritage mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
