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

[Harp Explorer <harpexplorer1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting idea. So, you're saying there'd be a way to echo the list to
Facebook so the email addresses can be mined?


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:28 AM, harp <harp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Capt.M save the wail.
> >
> > Sent from the star cluster Memory Alpha
> >
> >
>
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