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

[Sharon Palmer]

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