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SMS

On 1/31/2015 9:09 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:52:42 -0800, SMS
wrote:

On Facebook, you're only sharing as much of your life as you want to
share. You don't have to give your real birthday or real life history
and you probably should not do so just because of the risk of identity
theft.

Facebook has proven to be invaluable as a broadcast tool for school
organizations and you can have closed groups which are open by
invitation only. I.e. my son's marching band does most of their
communications via Facebook including posting videos of competitions,
notices of practices and rehearsals, etc. To do that with e-mail would
be a real pain in the butt.

I dont agree. Before facebook, email lists were common. All that band
would need to do is create an Addressbook for all band members, and send
out a notice to all of them at once.

You don't understand.

First of all, e-mails tend to be ignored because people get so many
e-mails. Unless you set up e-mail filters to sort them and depend on
people to include the organization name in the subject line so they can
be sorted.

Second, it makes a lot more sense to have a third party host images and
videos rather than e-mailing them around.

If I had kids in school, I'd be really ****ed if they made my kid use
facebook, espacially when I have it blocked.

Fortunately, the schools here have more enlightened parents, but I am in
the heart of Silicon Valley. And it's not just the students that join
the Facebook groups, it's the parents as well. We also need to know
what's going on, and we like watching the videos of the performances.
Having ONE central place to get all the information is very useful.