Re: [Nolug] Nolug on G+?

On 08/12/2012 08:52 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> On 8/12/12, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> On 08/12/2012 02:10 PM, Mischa D. Krilov wrote:
>>> Events and sharing come to mind.
>> We have a mailing list.
>
> But Google+ and Facebook are newer technology, although Facebook is
> generally the preferred one, and G+ is a bit of a dismal fail, so I
> don't understand the argument in favor of G+ that "It's not FB". The
> poster made the equivalent of a suggestion that you store notes using
> uploaded Word documents.... but you said... "But we already have
> Telephone, pen and paper, and paper calendars... why would be the
> benefits of using a computer for any of that?"
>

Having watched some critical thinking videos this weekend on YouTube, my
response is, "I disagree with your analogy."

> Social Networking sites are a tool; and a more modern fad is for to
> people to communicate with them and keep track of their interactions
> nowadays through such sites.

Fads are for fickle youth.

>
> Such sites provide some automatic functionality that mailing lists
> don't, such as responding publicly in the affirmative/negative to an
> event invite without a massive number of e-mails to everyone,

It's my experience that lists combined with MUA are *much* better at
tracking conversations that web forums.

> and
> sharing media rich content more efficiently.

Links to YouTube, flickr, etc can easily be pasted into emails.

>
> E-mail based mailing lists are such a 90s fad.
>

Are you sure?

> In Principle, there would be nothing mutually exclusive with NOLUG
> having both a mailing /and/ a Facebook page; the Facebook page
> might attract participation from a larger audience of Linux users,
> particularly novices, who aren't familiar with the concept of a LUG,
> and have no clue about mailing lists..
>

That would be an excellent argument if not for Google., distro-specific
forums and Linux Questions.

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