Facebook - why?

It would be completely stupid for the Club to ignore the likes of Facebook and similar social media. Internet use has changed beyong all recoginition over the last 10 years. Whether we like it or not most organisations have to be engaged with it to reach the widest number of people. It matters not whether the figure is 89% or 69% what the Club can't ignore is that by any measure there are a vast number of people who treat Social Media as part of their everyday life. If the Club wants to encourage the next generation of members they have to be involved.

David

Thank god I am one if the 11%. Cant think of a sadder persuit than be on social media. Get a life.

I pressed like by mistake, agree nothing sadder than being on  social media or any forum for hours everyday, forums are worse beacuse you are talking to people you don't know, who only share one or a few interests as you and are unlikely to meet,

l think people enjoy social contact by various means. Years ago, on retirement, my father went back to the amateur radio of his youth and enjoyed making evening contacts all over the place. He met up with a few fellow ham radio followers, some became friends, much like a few on here have done. You can get as much or as little from social media as you like, I think there are benefits as well as pitfalls.

It matters not whether the figure is 89% or 69%

David

Of course it matters, you have to post accurate figures and be prepared to reference the source or not at all.

For the exactly same reason I have just withdrawn a recent post because I had not checked the source properly and was not 100% certain of the facts.

The alternative is that everyone just posts made up nonsense.

You will be on the internet forever if you start looking at statistics, but a quick trawl through some sites shows the uk has a higher proportion of FB users than other other forms of social media. 

I had to smile the other day, after putting in answers to alphabetical towns in the fun and trivia section on here my on line banking suddenly came up with my nearest bank...very useful if I was in Builth Wells, but I'm not! Algorithmns be blowed....tracking at it's least useful. 

A bit off topic - 

But if you are worried about data harvetsing - look at the new offering from Amazon

Story << here >>

Amazon can do no wrong.

Data harvesting by them is fine. Dash is the future and despite problems with non Amazon products and the Internet of Things, the Dash is just fine.

But I do have shares in Amazon so might be a bit biased

It matters not whether the figure is 89% or 69%

David

Of course it matters, you have to post accurate figures and be prepared to reference the source or not at all.

For the exactly same reason I have just withdrawn a recent post because I had not checked the source properly and was not 100% certain of the facts.

The alternative is that everyone just posts made up nonsense.

 

 

It matters not one jot. I think what Helen was trying to do was to illustrate the popularaity of Social Media. I have no reason to doubt the figures that she quotes as they seem perfectly inline with what I would have expected. Whichever way you cut it Social Media is used by a very large slice of the population, of all ages,  and often as a main form of online communication. The Club would ignore that at its peril in my view. There are those that prefer not to use Social Media or perhaps don't see the point but the fact remains that a very large proportion of the population do use it and the Club must respond to that.

David 

You are arguing a different point David.

I personally think Facebook is a valuable marketing tool but the data harvesting means it's not for me. I have just been studying it at level 6!

I do not care if others use it or not.

 I do not care if the CC uses Facebook or not.

I do care if they differerentiate and disadvantage non Facebook members

I do care if statistics / facts are used that are  ubsubstantiated.

Do you think I enjoyed retracting my post over on Overseas due to me not checking facts? I didn't enjoy it one bit but it's more important to have accuracy than an ego. I expect the same dilligence from the club.

I hope this explains my position better.