I love the listserv format and hope it stays! I was on Parent-L for many
years and as it switched over to Facebook I lost contact with all the
wonderful mothers that were so helpful and supportive. I joined the
Facebook page but never go there and there is very little activity.
I have found that I spend so much time on the computer at work that I don't
want to sit at the computer when I am at home. The listserv format allows
me to read a few digests when I have time and I don't get sucked into
Facebook spending time reading about things I didn't intend to.
Excellent point about the archives. That feature is so helpful and it is
great the list mothers have control over it.
Happy New Year to everyone and I hope to continue to read with you in my
email!
Allison Laverty Montag IBCLC
Wisconsin, USA
Well said, Margaret!
Holly McSpadden, IBCLC
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> On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Margaret Sabo Wills <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Just saw this question -- As a long-time reader of Lactnet (though up and
down with how well I keep up with it -- so maybe this has been discussed in
more depth already) I want to comment on the Facebook angle. Another LC
on-line discussion I belong to has migrated much of its discussion to
Facebook, and (while this reveals that I'm not a digital native who grew up
with it), I'm finding the format to be an overwhelming jumble. There are
with multiple threads going on simultaneously, with comments being added to
threads way down on the page, and, if one isn't fast enough, or visiting
multiple times a day, comments can slip down to the hidden realms before
one reads them. Longer posts can get split up. It's also not easily
searchable. And it's all at the mercy of whatever changes Facebook wants
to make to their format, their storage, and policies-- and while the
participants may squawk about not liking a change, they pretty much go
along. Facebook is a business, not a public utility -- it has no sense of
obligation to our higher purpose. (And even the Yahoo groups, which are an
easier format, aren't necessarily there for the ages, and their recent
format changes are a pain. Hmm, just grumpy here in general.) I know that
Facebook was seen as the hip, new way to communicate, and we certainly do
need to make younger lactation consultants feel so welcome and listened to
in our graying profession, because they live in the house of tomorrow --
but I'm told that now that grandmothers are all on Facebook, younger
people are becoming less and less interested in it.
>
> On the larger point -- Lactnet is a wide and deep resource, that devoted
listmothers watch over and maintain. One can go back and catch up after a
few weeks away and feel that they saw everything. The archives are
treasure -- sure, there are some goofy posts -- but whenever I have an
unusual situation, it's such a comfort to be able to search the archives
that reach back for so many years now. The maintaining of the archives,
and the search feature is valuable to our profession. If I weren't
supposed to be doing other stuff right now, I could go back and search for
whether this discussion has already taken place.
>
> Discussion and camaraderie is important, regardless of the format, and
I'm sure that some people love the Facebook approach -- find it lively and
easy and stimulating. But so much of that discussion is likely to be lost
for the long term.
>
> Margaret Wills, Maryland
--
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by
fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
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