I am comfortable with Facebook, but the Legacy Group there is not worth my
time. There are just too many posts to wade through -- as you admit, it
takes all your waking hours. And (last I looked) so many of the posts were
beginner questions or a rehash of old topics. It's almost like we could use
two groups, one for newbies and one for old-timers.
But, thank you, Michele, for the work you do to help all users.
Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Gillian Hakli
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 1:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook
I've taken myself off Legacy and, though you're quite convincing,
Michelle, about the advantages, I'm not going back. Like Georges, I'm
very contented with emails.
Gillian
On 12/05/2020 19:47, [email protected] wrote:
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 <[email protected]> De la part
de Michele Lewis
Envoyé : 12 mai 2020 11:32
À : Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
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
[email protected]
www.legacyfamilytree.com
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