Facebook - why?

Apologies for the typo's by the way. I have lost my last pair of reading glasses and struggling to read the screen properly.

I have no wish to become involved with Facebook. Like Fysherman I am concerned on a number of fronts and hope that the club does not disadvantage those of us that have no wish to take part. We have a web-site a forum a magazine and now this. Will all have to be contacted or updated everytime the management want to inform us of something. I think it's all a bit over the top. Just my thoughts.

You only need to see how TV has dumbed down with programmes directed at a certain non-discerning audience to explain the rise of use of Facebook by certain people.

Companies use it for purely selfish reasons as updating information on their main website is time consuming and expensive. Posting info on F/B is cheap.  

Welcome back K

Whether you use facebook or not, data is still be harvested from all the web pages and forums you use. Online users are revealing more about themselves than they think. Applications are out there to gather data and analyse it for all sorts of purposes. If you were really worried about it you wouldn't use the internet at all.

peedee

From day one of civilisation people have always wanted to know what others are doing. In the early days of the telephone the operators could enjoy listening in to what the vicar said to the lady in the Fox and Hounds...

Who's worried?

I'm not in the slightest but then I do keep away from the worst offenders. The rest I minimise whilst maintaining functionality.

Managing risk is the smart way to use tech..

So you weigh up risk against benefit of anything you use on the internet.

peedee

Just had a look on the office for national statistics web site. I hope we can all agree they are reputable. They have 63% of the population using social media in 2016. The previous 89% was of Internet users. 

As for disadvantaging some members

1) a lot of the content is not aimed at members it is to attract in new members

2) all channels do that I don't read news papers so anything in there would be no good for me. Many just throw themagazine away so that's no good. CT is only visited by a small minority.

And even once a competition has been found some cant read that's devisive some don't know the answer that's devisive. Life is like that.

So you weigh up risk against benefit of anything you use on the internet.

peedee

I sense a trap peedee