[Rhodes22-list] Facebook

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

https://www.facebook.com/General-Boats-Rhodes-22-Sailboat-155705167787639/timeline
is a Facebook page not a group. As such, anything that you post to 
the page (as someone who likes the page) is NOT likely to be seen by 
any other person who likes the page UNLESS that person is also a 
friend of yours on FB.

You will note that the posts by anyone other than the owner of the 
page show up in the "Visitor posts" section on the left hand side of 
the page. Posts by the owner of the page will show up on the wall of 
the page and perhaps in the newsfeed of the people who like the page 
but even there the chance is low.

On a good day posts that I make to a page I administer 
(https://www.facebook.com/mainstayrockhall/) reach about 15-20% of 
the people who like the page. Facebooks proprietary algorithms 
determine who sees the posts made by a page.

Facebook groups are better. They can be open or closed. If someone 
subscribes to a group, there is a good likelihood that they will see 
the posts from the other members of the group. They do take a bit of 
administration to keep out the spam and the trolls and of course 
there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with Facebook's 
mining of their personal information and/or posting in such a 
wide-open worldwide forum.

For our purposes - sharing info about our boats, I like the email 
list a whole lot better and I would like it even more if we could see 
who is sending a message. My second choice would be a threaded 
bulletin board like the ones at the trailersailor.com. Phil Herring, 
who runs all of the sailboatowners.com websites is a good guy. 
Facebook would be a distant 3rd.

I'm so glad that John and MJM have kept us going all these years. And 
thanks to Mike for giving us a new home.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 09:57 AM 2/10/2016, you wrote:
>There are 84 people on the Facebook page.  If these conversations move to
>that, we should be in good shape.  And Facebook ties over to Stan's website
>and business, so it would help him out with a more unified web presence.
>
>Rick
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