Question re: Can-Con and Facebook

[dewline]

I've got a question for those of you with Facebook accounts. It may take a little while to get to the point, so please bear with me.

Some of you already know I'm currently serving as a "design consultant" to the organizing committee for next year's edition of Ottawa's main science fiction convention, Can-Con, which means I'll be doing flyers, posters, badges, t-shirts and so on for the convention as the needs of the run-up to the convention date continue to evolve between now and the currently-expected convention weekend of September 9-11, 2011(subject to change).

I've been added to the Facebook group for the convention organization as a whole and with that come new privileges, if you can call them that.

Previously, you could invite others with FB accounts to join a group you're part of, and they could refuse/ignore the invite. FB now has the group-joining process re-jigged to ensure that you have to actively leave the group to avoid being part of it. At least, that's what it looks like at the moment.

So...seeing as I'd rather not force people to back out after the fact as that leaves egg on both our faces(but mine deserving the egging far more), I'm asking those of you with FB accounts following my LJ right now: do you want to be added to Can-Con's Facebook group?

Joining the FB group will NOT commit you to attending the convention. I know of a few reasons why a number of you either cannot or will not attend this, and I'm okay with that. So are the organizing committee as a whole. I just want to know who's interested in keeping an eye on us right now, keeping the future in mind.

Which is one good point of a science-fiction convention in the first place.

Hoping to hear from you, either here or on FB or in e-mail.

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Nope. I mostly ignore my facebook and have stripped it of most of it's functions as much as I can.

[black13.livejournal.com]

My policy for groups is that anyone who puts me into a group (never mind which one) without asking me first gets defriended. Period. As a matter of principle.

Most groups, and this one in particular, don't apply to me anyway. I'm in Germany, I'm broke, so I couldn't care less about a con on the other side of the world. It's also why I refuse every single event invitation sent to me: unless someone covers my travel expenses, I'm extremely unlikely to, for example, attend a book signing in San Francisco.

Suggestion: kill the group and make it a fan page. That way, you can send invitations which have to be actively accepted by the invitee, or else they cause no harm and no ill-will.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

My policy for groups is that anyone who puts me into a group (never mind which one) without asking me first gets defriended. Period. As a matter of principle.

Policy adopted; good idea.

Say *what*?!?

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

FB now has the group-joining process re-jigged to ensure that you have to actively leave the group to avoid being part of it. At least, that's what it looks like at the moment.

Facebook is Facebook but that sounds too extreme even for them.

I've never actually attended a con, but who knows? might do so some day. And I'm curious about the new FB group methods, so please add me to it — I'm Geoffrey Dow (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/geoffrey.dow) over there.

Re: Say *what*?!?

[black13.livejournal.com]

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=18897&ref_query=how+to+stop+peopl&ref=mf

Quote:

New Groups design
Can I prevent people from adding me to a new group?

The functionality of approving a group membership is not available. Similar to being tagged in a photo, you can only be added to a group by one of your friends. When a friend adds you to a group, a story in the group (and in News Feed for Open or Closed groups) will indicate that your friend has added you to a group.

Please keep in mind:

* Only your friends can add you to groups.
* When a friend adds you to a group, you'll get a notification right away.
* You can leave a group anytime. To do so, just go to the group page and click "Leave Group" in the right-hand column. Once you leave a group, you can't be added by anyone else unless you explicitly request to be re-added.

Thanks and Apologies

[dewline.livejournal.com]

If I knew for certain of a way to re-rig this set-up, I'd switch it over to that. Meantime, thanks for the permission, Geoffrey!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Your suggestion's been passed along to the Con-Com(AKA "the organizing committee"), as it makes sense to me. I'll pass along news when I get it.

I don't understand...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

...seeing as it used to be available.

Do you suppose this is an ideological thing in Zuckerberg's brain at work here?

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew if the group could be set up so that people could just join, and wouldn't need to be approved, or invited. Facebook certainly is a work in progress :-(

[dewline.livejournal.com]

How about the "fan page" suggestion mentioned above as an option?

Re: I don't understand...

[black13.livejournal.com]

Zuckerberg's ideology being, "what makes the most money for Zuckerberg" and "privacy should not exist in the 21st century?"

I'm kind of hoping that some skilled hacker (which I'm not, or else I'd take up that challenge) will dig deep into all of Zuckerberg's personal dirt, and put it all online for everyone to see.

Let's see who whines about privacy and rights then.

Zuckerberg

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I'd say that Social Network pretty much covered that ground as well as it can be for now, barring something from WikiLeaks blowing the lid of a Truly Dark Secret.