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Is it me or do we need a facebook page????

lee allen

By lee allen
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WayBig

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Facebook is evil!!! :hello2:

By the way I'm tired after work and I had pie and mash for my tea tonight....

Just thought I'd better let you all know. :hello2:

Ha ha, perhaps we heed a practice thread on here where we tell each other interesting things about ourselves in the third person. If it takes off move it to facebook, where it belongs.

"WayBig's train was late today, third time in a row, sigh"

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RobSay

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Stargazers Lounge | Facebook ! its only a fan site and a like away! share a pic? tag a friend in it? plus meet some new star friends!

Hello - I really really don't mean this as criticism and I very much enjoy linguistic evolution, it's just that I am more of a voyuer than participant. Your post really highlights how different people see and treat the world..

Your post contains seven sentence fragments and the only punctuation marks are exclamations and question marks. Just to give you a comparison (other than this post), my text messages use fully formed sentences with few if any abbreviations - I think we really are speaking different languages.

I don't do Facebook at all, I have read Twitter occasionally but dropped it through lack of utility. It's not that I don't get or understand these things - I have more than a passing professional interest in these applications, I just get more done in my personal life without them. SGL is phenomenally successful, incredibly easy to find and retains a remarkable level of specialist subject focus compared to many other internet forums. I don't honestly see the driver for any great change other than to be 'on the bandwagon' - and you will have guessed by now, it's a wagon I will happy let pass :hello2:

And just to round it off, there a lot of people out there who share this view to a greater or lesser extent. If you've read this far - congratulations and thank you, please feel free to file me under 'long winded grumpy old git'. I will now return to reading my paper book, may watch some analogue television later (1 of 4 channels) and will tend to some mighty porkchop sideburns I've been cultivating recently before retiring for good nights sleep.

cheers

Rob

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John

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Hello - I really really don't mean this as criticism and I very much enjoy linguistic evolution, it's just that I am more of a voyuer than participant. Your post really highlights how different people see and treat the world..

Your post contains seven sentence fragments and the only punctuation marks are exclamations and question marks. Just to give you a comparison (other than this post), my text messages use fully formed sentences with few if any abbreviations - I think we really are speaking different languages.

I don't do Facebook at all, I have read Twitter occasionally but dropped it through lack of utility. It's not that I don't get or understand these things - I have more than a passing professional interest in these applications, I just get more done in my personal life without them. SGL is phenomenally successful, incredibly easy to find and retains a remarkable level of specialist subject focus compared to many other internet forums. I don't honestly see the driver for any great change other than to be 'on the bandwagon' - and you will have guessed by now, it's a wagon I will happy let pass :hello2:

And just to round it off, there a lot of people out there who share this view to a greater or lesser extent. If you've read this far - congratulations and thank you, please feel free to file me under 'long winded grumpy old git'. I will now return to reading my paper book, may watch some analogue television later (1 of 4 channels) and will tend to some mighty porkchop sideburns I've been cultivating recently before retiring for good nights sleep.

cheers

Rob

You are not alone Rob :hello2:

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MG1

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I can sort of see a use to fb as an outreach tool, but wouldn't want people to think that the wall was a substitute for posting here.

There could be some useful features that might get others involved in our hobby and point them towards SGL for more banter about cloudy skies, spending dilemmas and fettling advice.

Could also be good at advertising meet ups and star parties with the events bits....

I probably wouldn't use it though, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't support it or help in anyway as the mods here are already quite busy keeping us all in check!

Anyway...it tentatively gets my vote, but only if the SgL team are happy with it.

Michael

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JamesM

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Does SGL need any promoting? Stargazing Live introduced so many people towards this site and every day there are always a couple of new people joining who start their posts by saying, "I was looking at some equipment and your forum came up several times and so I decided to check you out....etc"

Maybe I'm out of touch with the current vibe here but there seems to be this techno fascination with constantly being fed little bits of this and a bit more info on something else that collectively wants to give the impression that the person receiving this 'stuff' is at the centre of what ever it is that's happening, when in truth, that person is actually on the outside looking in. My astro society recently decided to have a facebook presence and all it seems to have done is to act as a hub informing the members about what everyone else is out there doing - it should be the other way round.

Maybe it's my age (...read 'commonsense') but I don't have time for this 'updating' because I'm busy downloading into the interests that I have already. I like to get home and digest in peace and quiet the great images that this forum produces to see who has won best picture this time around - I don't need each image fed to me whilst filling up for petrol. Does this forum need to sell itself, is that its purpose? Or is it a meeting place where people can exchange views, experience and even differences of opinion and you certainly don't need Paris Hilton to assist with that - I much prefer real stars!

Clear skies

James

(....now seen slowly making his pilgrimage to Canterbury in order to receive his ordination in recognition of his services to the young and the technologically confused)

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ampleamp

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For me, Facebook equals inane and irrelevant drivel most if the time. SGL appears on the first page of virtually any astro related google search due to the diversity of subjects, quality of posts etc; let that be/remain a quality introduction for the site.

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Holderness

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Facebook is not for me I'm afraid. I also think it would fragment people into two groups and dilute the diversity of the discussions on here. There will be those who will prefer FB and those who preer this forum and however much they intend to post to both will naturally gravitate to one or the other over time.

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Macavity

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Your post contains seven sentence fragments and the only punctuation marks are exclamations and question marks.
Hmmm... "
" as the "Chav Pilots" might say. :hello2:

I think I was detered from FB, when my account was hacked. BUT it seems a good publicity vehicle. Wonder why SGL (on FB) has so few fans? Hey, as long as it doesn't provide an advertisement or back-door to those who "covet the precious things" we may have... :hello2:

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Rosanella

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No, we don't! :hello2:

But it might be good for promoting SGL and for those who prefer Facebook to forums.

I closed my Facebook account a few months ago as I did not like the way Facebook works and did not have the time to go *also* onto Facebook. I'm struggling to keep up with the forums as it is, let alone going onto Facebook. (I've been listening to the audio version of the story about Facebook: interesting story and look at Facebook now. WoW!Amazing! -- sorry, I've digressed :hello2: )

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