Gregory's ServerOur local area has people & businesses sharing everything via Facebook. The ensemble, and the youth club I volunteer at, all post info pretty much exclusively on Facebook. Looking for jobs? You better be in the local Facebook groups. Community event? Guess what…
And so, the local community excludes us youngers who don't use Facebook, or forces us into making an account just to read info. The olders *seem* to get along ok with it but who knows how many are excluded & we're unaware of?
I can't deny online is more convenient & allows organising & communicating much easier, but why not a web forum or something? And why can't static info be posted somewhere else? And then, why can't there be a noticeboard or local paper?
(since my grandma's become a Facebook pro I do wish she took a break & did something else, it seems like she's just always on it)
(we do actually have a local magazine, but it's pure politics & NIMBYing)
(more rhetorical question marks for good luck: ?????)
I also have a distaste for a few random unelected middle-to-older-ish aged people I don't know, who happen to be decent at Facebook, dictating how all this is run.
(and a personal bump with them from me making a nice web map of the local scarecrow hunt for fun, trying to share it to the Facebook, and them promptly banning me *I assume* (no transparency) because it's a link they don't recognise.)