I'm trying to figure out the benefits of having a FB page considering you have a forum here. I must admit, I don't know a lot about FB. Perhaps you could explain the benefits/advantages of such a page? If there are features on FB that would appeal to a wide audience from the lamp world perhaps Ross would be interested to learn of them and consider such attractions for this site.
Won't touch it. Faceache was designed to gather details of personal information useable by government agencies, and the burgeoning youth willing to share their drunken party/personal abuse went for it in droves. That's one factor. Another is that many respectable groups and forums seem to have migrated to it. Which is a loss for those who prefer a more specialised and focus of a forums reason for being. Faceache can attract too much spurious comment - not that we do not digress from time to time No facebook for me. My wife has a Facebook page, but has soon discovered the downside. Just so much insipid, and sometimes abusive trivia. It's possible to be selective, but that's what forums are for, are they not?
I use Facebook quite a lot and find it useful, although Derek's general criticism about it being often populated by half-wits with nothing to say is, sadly, too true. Mind you, my FB page is hardly serious although you might find something interesting and informative or get the odd laugh or two. I hope so anyway! I'm not sure any government agency anywhere is going to find out anything about me it didn't already know so that aspect doesn't worry me at all. Anyway, as Matty and Derek suggest, I can't see that a mostly unregulated FB page is going to offer anything over what's already available here on good old CPL...
Points noted. There is an application on FB that allows groups to be created. When created they are private and hidden until you become a member. Also when having posted, posts are hidden from your friends list. Not to detract from the forum, just another source for enthusiasts.
I belong to a author fan group on FB, but still go back to his curated web site to get details that I need. FB was built to for chatter and gossip, and this forum goes so far beyond that that it has become a benchmark on a friendly watering hole/resource for lamp owners.
Yes, I run a group on FB which is currently private (but not hidden per se), although I could set it for general display to all and sundry if I so desired. I use it to keep members of our group informed about what's gone on at our face-to-face meetings should they have been unable to attend. I also use it to keep the group informed about birthdays and wedding anniversaries etc. i.e. low-level social chit-chat. Other members can join in and respond to the posts I make although they generally don't. It was much quicker and easier for me to set up the FB group rather than a website or forum and it achieves the little that's required of it. It does require membership of FB, however, and as we've seen, there is a reluctance amongst many to do that. And since we already have a website and forum here, I'd still question whether we would benefit from it. Maybe the best plan would be to set it up and see where it goes from there...
I'm a member of several FB groups & have seen a stove collector set up a stove collectors group there. If you are only interested in transient info or show & tell it's a fantastic platform for that. Due to the linear time-line folk can give you lots of comment & likes on pictures of your new lamp or pearls of wisdom. However in a few days time your pictures & wisdom will be buried under all the new stuff. Sure you can have albums but it's clunky. Their image upload facilty is excellent. However the CPL version will be even better & easier than facebooks in a few month time. I only use it for groups now - clubs we are in that use it for updates. I deleted my personal account (& thereby all my posts & friends) & then rejoined for group use only. I don't take any friend request now. Facebook has been the death of many online forums but those forums tended to be the ones that offered the transient chat & show & tell that facebook excels at. Niche, reference sites like ours seem to be holding their own. Classic Camp Stoves has it's own facebook page which is used ( & will be used more going forward) to promote CCS content but there are a few folk who post there. They don't seem to mind the downsides I mention above. I may do the same for CPL once we upgrade - to bring more members in. The Lounge is pretty quiet here so linear chat doesn't seem to be something our members want. It's easy to set up a group on facebook. All you need is an account & a minimum of one friend to invite to join it. It's also free so if you want it, give it a go & see how it pans out. If there's features you're seeing at Facebook you'd like here, let me know. The new platform is more powerful & has many optional features.
I also did a search for pressure lamps & only found one group This one has Neil McRae's Pressure Lamp Catalogue in it's albums. I hope he's happy with that. https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Pressure-lamp/126245567502702
Is that your group? Or are you just a member? Either way the link to it should show on facebook for you as per mine in the screenshot. You should be able to then post the link here for those of us who have FB accounts to follow.
That's the mobile device link. This is the PC link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/829982747085167?_rdr=p&ref=bookmarks
Image upload is the big thing and maybe make it compatible with tapatalk? The group is not to detract from CPL, as CPL is the foremost in information etc. The group is just an extra interest page for those who use FB. I am into old VW's and I am a member of a forum which I use quite regularly, however I also follow VW group pages on facebook as they are a separate source of material.
Any such resource will have a potential to dilute content here or on other existing sites. That's the internet. As mentioned earlier in the thead & elsewhere on CPL the new platform we are moving to in a few months time is more versatile & easier to upload to than Facebook. If you're citing image upload as a big thing I would guess you'll be posting images there instead. Dilution. The new format is also fully responsive in design for mobile devices - automatically resizing & reformatting to suit. Tapatalk isn't necessary which is good as it seems to have a lot of data harvesting blamed on it & other security issues.
Not at all. But without the aims or 'mission statement' of the group being clear, to what degree isn't clear either.
No just a few ideas for the new platform SB. I will still be using this forum the same amount. At the end of the day it is just a Facebook interest group for pressure lamps, I doubt it's existence will hinder or dilute CPL one bit.
Strictly speaking, there are already other fora for pressure lamps but still this one attracts people. The other fora have their followers, some taking part in several of them, others just in one. And some have seen their best times and are today like an old b/w photo from a once popular cafe. The internet thrives on volume and diversity and in most cases a new site will not steal users from the old sites, it will rather add to the overall increased use of the internet - and could send users back to the "old" sites.
No I am not happy with that published info of mine on FB. I am a member of FB but rarely look at it and never accept friend requests. No point with people I actually do know because I don't look and I can't see the point of "Friends" I have not and probably never will meet. I am not at all interested in the trivia of other peoples lives and the whole thing seems to me to be of no use to me whatsoever. If you want to talk with me then you have my phone number or email. To ask questions then post on CPL or the Guild site. ::Neil::
I don't like Facebook either - and I don't use it. In all situations people adapt their behaviour to the prevailant culture, so also when acting in every way on Facebook. And the behaviour there is not to my liking. But if 1.3 billion people (or whatever the figure is today) seem to be using it actively, then the Facebook culture must appeal to some, just like the pub culture, hip hop culture and whatever also have their followers. And if there is a group of people who like both Facebook and pressure lamps, it may be natural for them to meet on Facebook for a talk about pressure lamps. To my experience, from when I did use it, Facebook's group facilities are not very advanced. It is the same "wall" idea as the main screen with all comments running down the screen as one big list, so not topic based, and even though it has a good facility for making image collections, that same facility does not support e.g. collections of pdf files or groups of images, only individual images. And then, to my great disliking, it is all about clicking on like all the time - without "likes", you are nobody there.
