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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I too am interested in the strong
negativity associated with using Facebook.<br>
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By all means don't make it prerequisite, but why close that door?<br>
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(I have no great love for Facebook, but I would not have figured
that folks would care more about defending their right not to use
Facebook, than their right to make WellyLUG a success? And given
the wider audience that mainstream social networks provide...
surely this is a positive, not a negative, to the cause?)<br>
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Mark.<br>
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On 14/03/13 12:35, Phil Daintree wrote:<br>
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<div> Yes all initiatives are good ... negativity kills
initiative... I only recently registered a facebook page - my
wife is well into it with ipad etc. although she has a puppy
linux desktop. I am interested about the strong reactions to it
though. I wonder if we linux types like belonging to a minority
tinkerers group and actively eschew any mainstream
ideas/software simply because it is mainstream? I like to think
I am open to good ideas irrespective of their popularity but I
may well actually like being in the tinkerer minority. Improving
access to our group would be good and FB/some other social
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<div> Phil <br>
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Ph: +64 (0)275 567890 <br>
Skype: daintree <br>
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On 14 March 2013 at 11:23 Hugh Davenport
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hugh@davenport.net.nz"><hugh@davenport.net.nz></a> wrote: <br>
> I suggested fb cos I find meetup to suck. Any suggestions
welcome <br>
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> Ian Beardslee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian@karearea.gen.nz"><ian@karearea.gen.nz></a> wrote: <br>
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> >Eww seriously if FB is used as the primary, secondary
or even tertiary <br>
> >communication method you can count me out. <br>
> ><br>
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