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Posted: Sat Aug 15th, 2015 14:58
 
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A thought to put to everyone on the forum.

Facebook seems to be a cheap and easy way to share stuff.
It isnt as structured as the forum but it is free.
The FB group would be a closed group so until you were a member you couldnt post. This gets rid of the spammer problem.

So here is is the question should we have a Facebook group?
Should it be as well as or instead of the forum?

Please can you state your preference.



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Posted: Sat Aug 15th, 2015 19:45
 
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There already is a nikon group on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nikon.Asylum

You must join to post, and it is better than a lot of other open groups, as anyone can post and often the posts are of poor quality.



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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 01:29
 
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Sorry I messed up the poll close time.

Please vote and comment.
Thanks.



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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 03:22
 
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Not having joined Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Networking site I am not qualified to comment on the merit of such a move. Except perhaps so say that my abstinence from those sort of 'bare your navel to the world' sites will continue.

An amusing thought......

"Presently, I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles. 
 
Therefore, every day, I go down on the street and tell the passerby what I have eaten, how I feel, what I have done the night before, what I will do tonight and the rest of the week.
 
I give them pictures of my wife, my daughter, my dog, me gardening and spending time in my pool. I also listen to their conversations and I tell them I love them. 
 
 
. . . . . and it works!!!
 
 
 
I already have 3 persons Following me ....2 police officers and a psychiatrist"



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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 04:23
 
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:lol::lol:
I will be across in UK in October and if necessary will bail you out or start proceedings to get you released from your Sectioning Notice.



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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 11:42
 
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re: my abstinence from those
I agree with Eric (to some degree, grin).
I acknowledge the spam problems this site has had in the past.
Independence is another matter (highly appreciated by myself).
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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 14:07
 
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Dont forget, please also vote!



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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 16:09
 
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I can understand the desire to have a less burdensome technical structure.

I can also understand why some people use crack cocaine. I'm much more likely to try crack than Facebook, however. Yes, I know they have 1.5 billion users and I'm in danger of missing everything in the world (including spam, identity theft, malware and any possible privacy...oh yeah and a zillion unwanted wonderfully personalized ads).

In short. I love the community of Nikon D1 users :-), fuji x users...and that is just about it.

If you do enter Facebook, I would request that my name, forum posts and images be removed first.

Yikes...


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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2015 16:24
 
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Hi Tom, no compulsion just an alternative thought about getting more people involved.
I hate using FB as it is very unstructured but if it allows people to show their pictures more easily then it has some advantage.

This is currently only a back burner idea but unless we get a huge positive request it wont happen.



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Be prepared for a legion of pet and cute kid pix. :lol:



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