[Sca-cooks] Use of FB for scholarly discussions and problems with FB g...

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Most, yes. But I believe the Smithsonian's PDF approach is intended for the 
 latter.

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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In a message dated 11/11/2013 11:40:02 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com writes:

While  useful, I believe these only save your own posts... not ones 
made by  someone else that you found interesting.  Nor the post you 
were  replying to, and others in the  conversation.