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On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Seth Fragomen wrote:
> 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?
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> 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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