Couldn't both facebook AND the conventional email list be used? The current
setup may be discouraging people who can't keep up with the onslaught of
postings from participating more actively. Maybe the combination of fb and
the listserv is a sensible compromise? Could there be a way to make every
post appear both places?
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, k. a.r. <a_r_k__at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there. I think that a facebook, frameworks connnection is a bad thing.
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> My experience:
> I participate in a different online forum that is a web page, and you have
> to have a login
> to see the discussions.
> People there can start a topic, and anyone with a login can comment on that
> topic.
> This forum had been a busy, interactive forum, with people from all over
> the continent participating,
> until the last year/year and a half.
> The traffic on that forum has slowed down so much, that days pass w/o any
> new posts.
> Very odd.
> When it was addressed on the forum about the forum slowing down, everyone's
> answer was "facebook."
> The other participants said that so many people are using facebook to just
> connect with who they want,
> that they don't need the forum anymore.
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> Which is pretty sad, it was a great resource.
> If you only want to connect with people you already know, you never get to
> meet anyone new!
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> ANYWAY, in the context of that, I don't think that Frameworks should start
> up on Facebook.
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> Participation in FB would totally change the aesthetic of Frameworks.
> It would probably dilute the subject matter, and like someone else said,
> people would start posting
> pics of their dogs, and new shirts....it would not be only experimental
> film anymore.
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> And that would be sad.
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> With the amount of filmmaking resources diminishing so rapidly, do we
> really want to voluntarily do that ourselves?
> Take away from ourselves one of the great resources still left to
> experimental filmmakers?
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> Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
> Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
> Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project
> The Mission, San Francisco, CA
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> 'A first class technician should work best under pressure.'
> - - - Issac Asimov
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