On 2012-10-08, Charlie Richmond wrote:
We will add you to the group if you want - there are 120 people on there now.... But you aren't 'friends' of mine so I can't ask you to join....
Charlie, again a word of caution: nowadays you can't really know who will be added and who will be invited when you press the "add" button on the group. I'm not too sure everybody who's been added actually gave their permission, so we'll probably have to remove and apologize to a few people yet, given that the group setting is that anybody in it can add more folks.
So, at a more general level, I too agree that FB can be rather a shitty and deceptive medium. I'd like to have control over my own client, which FB hardly gives you. But the fact remains, for many things it's the easiest medium you can have, and since "everybody" is already there, you can't really do without if you have a cause to promote.
I for one do even here: ambisonic above all else, but then any passable surround tech besides. I'd really like to have a means to promote it "socially" to people who no longer flock around mailing lists but rather hang out somewhere else. I think a Facebook group is the minimum, there, so that's what I've/we've put up.
What I'd like to see is a situation where it's run properly, and with not competition but synergy with sursound. Those people on-list who like to join, join, those who don't, don't. Then the more trivial, for example product and publicity oriented stuff going on on the FB side, with the kind of heavy lifting that has always been done on the list being funneled here -- because obviously FB can't even begin to support a proper technological or scientific argument.
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