Re: [Harp-L] Facebook vs, harp-l

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IMHO, harp-l and Facebook are two different things. Harp-l is a simple way to participate in a group discussion with people who share your interests. If you are a business person or someone who uses email regularly, then harp-l is almost a zero effort way to monitor and perhaps participate in a discussion about your hobby/vocation. 

Facebook is a pull distribution model. For the full experience you need to go to the site. I work with a lot of teens, and they never use email. Facebook is their home, and they actively engage with it hundreds (thousands?) of times a day. Facebook would love it if they never went anywhere else because those people are their product. Facebook's customers are people who want information on those teens (and a lot of companies will pay for that info).  Facebook is first and foremost, a data mining and monetization platform. 

For our purposes, it seems to me the question is whether this list wants to reach people who live there. Speaking personally, if harp-l moved to Facebook, I would probably drop just because I don't like being their product and because I don't want to deal with all the other clutter they throw at you when all you want to do is monitor a list and occasionally chip in a word or two.  But it is not an all or nothing proposition. I assume there is some automated way to echo the list to fb. 

Brad 

> On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:58 AM, "joy_top top" <joy_top@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I like harp-l as it is, but I have nothing against facebook either.
> Most on facebook don't know how to set it up and don't understand it. I have little problem with it's security.
> Maybe I'm not a normal user either with a background in computer science, one job with the gov with computers in a secure floor policy and another in realestate where there is a lot of marketing including FB, and good reason to protect my security. I am not worried about facebook even though I have multiple accounts, groups, and pages on fb with various names. It is easy to secure what you don't want seen.
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