[Bradford] Bradlug now has a Facebook page

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Nick

Great work.

Yes, the Facebook page is misleading in suggesting that you will get more 
content if you log in - but then that is what they want people to do - more 
data to sell.

John

On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:12:41 BST Nick via Bradford wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did check the page in a private Firefox window, for me it has big
> "log in or create new account" buttons at the bottom, but I  can scroll
> to see the content. I wonder if we are subjects of A/B testing ?
> I fully understand there are people who don't use Facebook. I get zero
> value of it myself, only use for the benifit of family members that
> insist on using it.  But as Facebook is its own bubble of information
> (and search), I thought it would be useful to make BradLUG discoverable
> on Facebook :)
> 
> I have just taken a look at meetup.com, I found the "Pro" page, but
> zero info about prices and what features the free and pro versions
> have. It does have 5 big buttons prompting to start a free trial, which
> just sucks IMHO.
> 
> Cheers, Nick
> 
> On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 17:53 +0000, bradlug at hackroyd.org.uk wrote:
> >         I am not on Facebook and it wanted me to log in, that was
> > 
> > after the cookies stuff. I have a Firefox container that launches
> > automatically when there is a Facebook link. Anyway, the page isn't
> > for me but maybe those on Facebook who might be interested.  Any
> > publicity is good. However, many will be like me and avoid Facebook
> > as much as possible.
> > 
> > A meetup.com group would be effective I think but, unfortunately, it
> > is difficult to work out if/what they charge. I read that they don't
> > charge unless you charge your members but I ran some groups without
> > making charges and meetup charged me. When I spoke to the guy who
> > runs 'Málaga Makers' - the largest tech meetup group south of Madrid,
> > he told me he didn't get charged. So I can't work it out.
> > Brian
> > 
> >              On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 16:09:26 CEST, Nick via
> > 
> > Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >                 Hi,
> > 
> > I have recently created a page on Facebook at (no login required)
> > https://www.facebook.com/Bradlug.Bradford.GNU.Linux.Users.Group,
> > thought it would be helpful to make BradLUG and our website more
> > discoveredable from Facebook.
> > I don't plan on adding content unless there are any specific
> > requests.
> > If anyone has any suggestions for tweaks, changes and improvements
> > let
> > me know.
> > 
> > I would be useful to have someone else as an admin of this page to
> > avoid myself being a single point of failure, any voulenteers ?
> > 
> > Cheers, Nick
> > 
> > 
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