[Sca-cooks] Use of FB for scholarly discussions and problems with FB g...
Sharon Palmer
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Mon Nov 11 13:51:52 PST 2013
Another group I belong to, had a long series of posts about
suggestions for the group over a couple of weeks, maybe 500
individual posts from 100+ people spread over 30-40 threads. I was
*trying* to archive them, and it's very difficult. Facebook changes
the order each time someone adds to the thread, and it's almost
impossible to see everything on an quickly updating group, and
sometimes FB simply won't show you older posts, even if "older" only
means 8 hours ago.
Sharon (Cause Ranvaig doesn't use Facebook).
>This said, I don't know that social networking sites were ever intended
>for this use. But then neither was email. I don't know that it's any harder
>to save a thread from Facebook and add a date to the file name than it is to
>save an email thread. Either would require some editing to be of scholarly
>use. (My one and only academic paper began as an effort to combine posts to
> an email thread into something coherent.)
>
>Jim Chevallier
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