Re: threads by email

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:32 -0700

I don't like the changes that FB has made in the last year and now avoid it as much as possible. I prefer an email thread. 

On May 12, 2010, at 4:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I'm an extensive user of FB, but I agree that these email threads have more value (for me) than fb discussions. Some of the messages here are lengthy, thoughtful expressions of ideas often interwoven as responses to previous posts. On facebook, a person would have to keep clicking on "see more" to read a lengthy wall post and the responses pile up chronologically. That doesn't work for me in this instance. I prefer email.
Having said that, there is no reason that those who prefer facebook can't go over there and start discussions as well. Just keep in mind that you will not reach the same audience. You may, however, catch the attention of people outside of R-SPEC and that just might increase membership. 

---- Dana Paxson <[email protected]> wrote:

I much prefer e-mail threads over using Facebook, and I do use
Facebook. Having these discussions in the R-Spec group is probably the only way they'll reach me, since I do not like to add yet another place 
to go to find threads.  Keeping track of a family of e-mail addresses
and various groups is enough work already.

Dana


On 5/12/2010 4:02 PM, Eric Scoles wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, Facebook is an absolutely horrible medium for carrying on discussions, through wall postings, forums or otherwise. I 
much prefer email. Email comes to the place I tell it to come -- all
of it lands in the same place, and I can deal with it (or not) in the 
same place as all the other stuff I do. To my way of thinking, it's
actually a far better means of carrying on discussions than Facebook
would be.

Plus, it would be a totally different group of people, unless we got
everyone on this list to go sign up for Facebook. I personally
wouldn't recommend that anyone get involved in Facebook at this point 
unless they had a compelling reason to do so, so I would personally
not sign up for any course of action that placed an onus upon people
to sign up for Facebook.

Google Groups allows you to deal with the email through a web
interface or through email, It's pretty much a clone of Yahoo Groups
in that regard. We have some participants who have Google accounts and 
some who don't. If we did this through Facebook, everyone would have
to have a facebook account and you'd all have to deal with the group
via Facebook.


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:54 PM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I agree... especially since some of us use email for work as well 

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   From: "Duane Parsons" <[email protected]
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   Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 3:51 pm
   Subject: threads by email
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It would seem to me that attempting to carry on discussions and/ or develop a discussion thread by email is exceedingly awkward. Since R-Spec has an FB page would it not be more practical to simply let memebers post thread topics for discussion on the FB page and then 
   other may participate as much or as little as they wish?


   This is simply a suggestion but I presonally am baffled as to why
   the FB page had no discussion threads while - conversely - I open
up my emai;l and have dozens of emails,all containnig what appears 
   to be fragments of various R-Spec discussions being carried on my
   email.


   Cordially,


   Duane




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