FB is good, but it is not created for academic purposes.
1. I mean, this community has consistent traffic of academic events: conferences, workshops, job opportunities, new websites presentation, etc. All those deserve serious attention and should be put in 'sticky'. The design of FB cannot handle this request.
2. FB does not have forum functions. This makes interesting discussions hard to trace.
3. The DM has its own material to present. FB cannot handle this.

Obviously, this current communicty does not have the first two functions either.
It is fair that we use a social platform to circulate academic information as long as we don't have a formal platform to exchange it.
But it cannot be a permanent arrangement, at least with FB's current design.

And alas, I am not keen to re-open my FB account yet. =I

Best

Gerald


>Christian Frey wrote:
>> RSS can help :-)
>>
>> I really like the idea of using facebook. We have made good
>> experiences with that in our institute.
>>
>>
>Groan . . . I've so far been holding out against Facebook, but I can see
>my days of freedom and happiness are numbered.

>Peter




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Gerald Liu

PhD student in medieval history, Durham
Working on late medieval manorial management and farm workers.
Personal website http://www.durham.ac.uk/gerald.liu/