Social media usage?

SM has a page on facebook? i did not know that. and I keep my SM and FB stuff far apart. I use facebook for games, and keeping up with some friends,and thats about it. I keep my Monkey business seperate, purely for OPSEC reasons. I am willing to get SM on my Kindle Fire, but I will stick with my laptop for now.

 

Ditto that exactly for me as well.

Maybe it's my old iphone but trying to put an image in a posting that isn't pulled from some website seems to be a challenge if not an impossibility any more. I end up having to load it from my phone to a regular computer and load it from there to SM. What a pain.

 

If i didnt play my stupid time wasting clicky games, I wouldnt be on there either.

 

I'm here because of a google hit. Chasing information about a gun. Closing off Google would limit newbees coming in like me....of cource, that might be your intent.....

 

What I gather is unless I use whatever to access the site and don't use FB or other (to me) nefarious social media I'm still protected from the monkeys end. So I can't see how it would impact me one way or another right? In which case have at it in whatever way works best for everyone. Just don't fix it so the people drifting through our community can't stop and look around. I'm guessing I'll trust all the Geeks living here to give a heads up just as you always have. Now more coffee and back to the comics page.

 

Why? What would be the point. Are you happy with just us and do not want others to join or are you wanting an invite only type membership?

 

A think a closed board would quickly become an echo chamber that would, for the most part die out. We aren't trying to be "Alpha Rubicon" or whatever that board was called that required dues (hefty by the way) and was all but invite only.

Part of what makes this board great is the constant influx of new people, the welcoming atmosphere and the willingness to share...knowledge, friendship, resources, whatever. I'm personally not on FB or Twitter but I do have an account for both "professionally" as an author.

Even though my trilogy dealt with an end of the world situation, I don't push that on my FB page and have never once pushed it via twitter. Two different parts of my life (although a third grader could tie me to my books and find out a LOT about me, I'm sure).

It sounds like, from what I'm reading, Melbo is looking for a way to make this site more appealing to the masses by integrating social media like features directly on the site. Not integrating further with FB, Twitter, Tumblr, Pintrest, YouTube or any of the other pre-existing sites or outlets.

This leads me to wonder what the general population might want that we don't have? We already have chat and instant messages (private messages). We don't put feeds on the side bar but maybe people would like that (we kind of do with most recently created posts but perhaps most "active" threads would be good too?).

Would it be good to have recent activity on threads you already watch show up on the side-bar? Would it be nice to have the quotes and quips by each user (which is now fairly far down on the right) higher up? Would it be nice to have actual news feeds from a list of sources you could pick from and customize (because you might like CNNFN and I may like MSNMoney for financial news...purely hypothetical) in addition to everything else? Would you like to be able to customize the layout of your page (a la your google home page or whatever it's called)?

Melbo, correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like that's more what you are asking if people would like.

It was also mentioned to integrate, potentially, some of the existing sites into the Monkey but I don't think that should be the goal and unless I've totally misunderstood melbo, I don't think that is what was being proposed.

Having those external presences, however, with links BACK to the monkey is, I think, a really REALLY good idea. I personally found the monkey through tapatalk by searching for survival and preparedness. I don't know how long it would have taken me to find this place, if ever, otherwise. Like many though, I don't really want "tighter" integration with the external sites. I will NEVER use the "like" button that triggers Facebook. I will NEVER tie a post to a google+ account/group. I won't re-tweet posts. Those things would even more obviously tie me to the site when many (myself included) are at least trying to be aware of OPSEC, even if we can't practice it to the level we would like.

It isn't that I don't want to promote the monkey...I do. I have. I will. I'm just kind of particular about who I try to bring into the fold because, well, we've already had that discussion a number of times on a number of other threads.

 

I get told on a regular basis, that I should have been a teacher. I don't mind assisting new folks, or answering questions, fleshing our an idea, or debating one.
I think we would have a problem of stagnation, if we closed our doors. Sometimes, when things are slow, I'll throw out something odd or a joke. Just to get a conversation going. And I have noticed others doing the same.
Part of what I like best about this site, is the willingness to share knowledge, and help others. If we close our doors to new folks, who is there to help? Then we are just preaching to the choir.
The pool of knowledge in the shade of the monkey tree, is both wide and deep....but who does that help, besides ourselves? Where would newbees come from? How do the sheep wake, if the dream is all they know?
I like this site as it is, and wish another site I could name worked as well and as smoothly.
Only improvement I might recommend might be a better search function. This one is pretty good, but could be better.