For those of you dead-set against Facebook please ignore this message.
There are numerous advantages to putting the TSAANL on Facebook. In its first 24 hours of conception, 59 Texas cavers suddenly were linked and communicating, in a way that was not feasible until Zuckerberg came along. In addition, there are functions off to the side that lets cavers chat privately. All the potential cavers in Texas, especially college kids and high-school kids have a Facebook app on their smart-phones. This is going to really become more noticeable once they all get their new phones and broadband-tablets this summer. It is almost as revolutionary as when the first phones were being installed in people's homes. Now those 59 cavers, presuming they have a smartphone with a Facebook app, have their caving news at their fingertips, much faster than has previously been available, and 24/7. I can only presume there is a better way on Facebook to do this or there will be someday. Someone else is welcome to either tweak it, or offer a better solution that does the same thing. There are some disadvantages that could be addressed. At the moment, I think anyone can see the postings. But that can be fixed, but it makes it harder for people to join. I don't think this will have to be monitored like a listserve, but it is easy for people to say something that gets taken out of context, or is misspoke, or misunderstood, and gets someone upset. Facebook may be a fad, but it seems to be a usable tool until something better comes along. I can see how Facebook is not for everyone, so anything newsworthy, should be posted wherever it would have been posted before Facebook came along. Cavers are now reading the Facebook TSAANL on their smartphones before they get out of bed in the mornings and in their beds at night before they fall asleep. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
