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Social Media

Post by tonewheeldude » Sat May 16, 2015 12:08 pm

Regarding the rover800.info facebook group. Who runs that?

Not a complaint - just an observation. I would like to participate, but not as a public group. The reason is, I use facebook mainly for work so almost all of my so called 'friends' are colleagues. I got fed up of remarks about the 800 so stopped posting there and left the group. I wondered if anyone else feels the same about open groups? I do not like sharing my personal life with work colleagues, but I am in a few closed groups, one very big and its good to be able to comment there without having comments at work.
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Re: Social Media

Post by Tenesmus » Sun May 17, 2015 11:57 am

Most of my colleagues are Facebook friends too. If I get any stick about anything, they get it back, bigtime, and that includes my senior managers.
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Re: Social Media

Post by deano » Sun May 17, 2015 11:54 pm

Never mix work and pleasure on social media. ..
It never ends well :-(
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Re: Social Media

Post by Richard Moss » Mon May 18, 2015 3:05 am

Many of my Facebook friends are work colleagues (or former work colleagues) but I don't think that any of us use it for work-based activity. OK, there are plenty of posts about aviation but not actual company stuff. Almost all of those people are actual, real-life friends too, and I rarely add people to my friends list just because of work connections.

The 800 Facebook page was set up by us (if I remember right, Simon set it up) but runs in parallel to this forum rather than being a part of it. The discussions are very lightly moderated and in the whole time that it has been running we've only had to take action on a very small number of issues and had to ban 3-4 people for deeply offensive or irritating.

The problem with Facebook is that it's difficult to treat like an archive - the forum is much better reference tool for tracking threads and finding information at a later date
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Re: Social Media

Post by mjc9967 » Mon May 18, 2015 3:50 pm

Richard Moss wrote:The problem with Facebook is that it's difficult to treat like an archive - the forum is much better reference tool for tracking threads and finding information at a later date
Dead right, Rich.

However your post suffers from being far too factual and objective... Required rant and emotive response below for balance :wink:

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I'm with Noam Chomsky - whenever he had to make a purchasing decision he asked himself the question "to what problem is this the solution?" No answer = no purchase. It's all change for change's sake I'm afraid...

Now, where do I update my "status" (whatever that is/means) on this forum? :wink:

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Re: Social Media

Post by vito » Mon May 18, 2015 7:23 pm

mjc9967 wrote:
I'm with Noam Chomsky - whenever he had to make a purchasing decision he asked himself the question "to what problem is this the solution?" No answer = no purchase.
Now I DO like that and need to apply it more rigorously (to the wife) ................ :lol:
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