Comments on: Methodists And Social Media: Constructive Ways Forward http://bigcircumstance.com/2010/02/03/methodists-and-social-media-constructive-ways-forward/ Dave Faulkner. Husband. Dad. Methodist minister. Pseudo-geek. Music lover. Tue, 29 May 2012 04:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Faulkner http://bigcircumstance.com/2010/02/03/methodists-and-social-media-constructive-ways-forward/#comment-3207 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:17:43 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2576#comment-3207 Sure, but all I envisaged was a simple public conversation. If I’m going to input to a consultation like this I don’t feel the need to hide behind anonymity. I didn’t at the time envisage a group collaboration on the creation or editing of a document. Had I thought of that (like you did) then I would have looked for a cloud app solution (as you did).

]]> By: DaveW http://bigcircumstance.com/2010/02/03/methodists-and-social-media-constructive-ways-forward/#comment-3206 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:46 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2576#comment-3206 Dave,

The conversation abilities for multiple people are really really basic in facebook.

The privacy settings are not the whole picture. The only way to be at all safe is to assume that everything that goes on facebook can go fully public. Remember nobody agrees to keep what you write private, even with no other privacy issues they can post anything they see anywhere.

Please we need to stop people thinking facebook is some safe place where you can keep things just between a few people. It is not the case.

]]> By: Dave Faulkner http://bigcircumstance.com/2010/02/03/methodists-and-social-media-constructive-ways-forward/#comment-3205 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:48:03 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2576#comment-3205 Fair point, Dave, it depends what we’re trying to achieve. If it’s a conversation, then FB can work quite well (and provided people are careful about their privacy settings). If we want to work on a document together, then it won’t work, and your initiative with Google Docs is a welcome move forwards on that one.

]]> By: DaveW http://bigcircumstance.com/2010/02/03/methodists-and-social-media-constructive-ways-forward/#comment-3204 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:39:36 +0000 http://bigcircumstance.com/?p=2576#comment-3204 Thanks Dave,

Just one comment. I am against gated communities like Facebook, myspace, linked in etc for open consultation. Firstly, it is wrong that people should have to create an account with a gated community to have access to the consultation. Secondly, the data is not accessible enough. eg Facebook has very poor tools for group collaboration. It makes it very hard for people to keep track without actually visiting the group page regularly.

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