About 3 years ago, I proposed an idea that it would be great if caving groups, such as the NSS, had their own touchscreen app on smartphones and tablets. Shortly after that, I went on a 3-month rant about how Google Plus was great and almost such an app. ( Looks like Google Plus is not going to take off.)
Now, Facebook figured it out. I just installed the I latest app, Facebook Groups, and it shows potential. It puts a blue circle on your gadget, with 3 white colored figures inside to represent a group. Clicking on that puts you into a screen similar to Google Plus, but all your Facebook groups are shown there, and clicking on any group icon puts you in app tweaked for communication with members of that group. [ Disclaimer: I spent 30 seconds testing this. ] So now the caving groups just need to work on their icons . David Locklear P.S. I had the privilege of seeing a few cavers yesterday and seeing Bill Steele''s slide show. I had seen it before in 1988 in Aggieland, but it had been changed a little. I have had little contact with cavers for several years and it was refreshing to attend something caving related. There were new people there. I did not catch everybody's name. One of them was a girl named Clarion, who sounded enthusiastic about caves, even though she had never been caving. But the experience was also personally frustrating, because going caving is not in my schedule for many months to come, certainly not the kind of caving that I most enjoy - tropical river caves.
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