[SixClub] Facebook

[Howard Bingham]

To me, Facebook is a waste of time, I have accounts on both Facebook & Twitter, the Twitter pages are more user friendly, but require an e-mail to interact with unless one lives on the site, Facebook is more complex, requires many pages to carry out the most mundane of message & has so many "Bells & whistles" that it takes forever to load on my dial-up connection..

That being said, the only reason I'm responding to this post, is that I'm on a webmail interface, my regular e-mail client filters Facebook & Twitter names that are included in the subject line & places them in the trash box, o unless I'm expecting a message in either Facebook or Twitter, won't see it unless I double check the "trash" box, which is where such e-mail's belong.

In short, I won't even see this response, as Facebook is included ib the subject line.

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Randy Friend <winger55552001 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 11, 2010 9:34 AM
>To: World Wide Six Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [SixClub] Facebook
>
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>Facebook might be a passing fad - but it is another step in the evolution of online interconnection.  Young people use it intensely.  If we are to reach out to children and young adults to be interested in ham radio, we can't ignore things like Facebook - or Yahoo groups for that matter.
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>The National Weather Service has setup the ability to receive Weather TWEETS - in the hopes of enlisting youth in becoming SKYWARN members.  
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>It would seem that setting up a Facebook page on the topic of 6m amateur radio is apropos - and would at least provide a reference to the topic and how to find others that might be interested.
> 
>Randy, N0LD
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