How do we discuss FB Groups without advertising any?

[Desiremakesmeweak]

The reason I post this is because I only recently encountered a few interesting things where in the past I kind of discounted everything FB.

I happen to have a few friends - well at least one really well-known personality who is in the Western media quite regularly - who are engaged with very large groups on FB in particular, and I recently got to 'peer into' how they were attaining such high numbers; whereas in my own personal view some of their 'grps' would struggle to find a sense of authenticity or validity in my mind if they were truly suggesting people actually just suddenly all 'joined up' there.

I am suggesting that without the ability here, for one good example, of being able to discuss these things fairly freely, NAMELY, BY ACTUAL WRITERS THEMSELVES/OURSELVES, especially those who use FB, there is going to continue to be a mischievous, nay - shameless, exploiting of writers and content generators by those who are going 'behind the scenes' and accessing points of contact surreptitiously for commercial advantage to themselves but not to the writers or content generators because the writers/content generators continue to be 'locked in a box.'

 

[Jada59]

Uh... I don't quite understand what you're saying. I am on FB though!

 

[jaF0]

See rules 6 and 7:

http://www.literotica.com/support/forum_rules.shtml


I'm opposed to even mentioning ZuckerBook anywhere in any way. I consider it a criminal enterprise that should be removed from the web.

 

[Jada59]

See rules 6 and 7:

http://www.literotica.com/support/forum_rules.shtml


I'm opposed to even mentioning ZuckerBook anywhere in any way. I consider it a criminal enterprise that should be removed from the web.

I see. However, if a person asked me for a link to something, in the form of a PM, I would assume that my giving them the link in that manner would be okay. It wouldn't be unsolicited because they had asked me for it. Right?

 

[OmnislashXX]

People have screenames so they can be strictly anonymous. Linking Facebook to Literotica would do the exact opposite. I think FB and Lit should be separate for that reason alone.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Yeah oh yeah I totally agree that linking Literotica and FB is a big no-no. And I can give you one personally-applicable reason why I wouldn't like the idea... (And this is a big LOL right here):

Right now, I am part of a team of bank advisers (many of us used to be in that industry 'at a level') who are applying for a licence to be a bank to be run on Islamic banking principals somewhere down here in the Southern Hemisphere.

Er. It would be quite amusing to see what THOSE people made of my being hereabouts...

To say nothing of the fact that I think Islam is a huge fraud thing in the first place. God Almighty!

...However. Writers are represented in 'Writers Groups' all over the place on FB but most of those groups to me at least seem to be run by people who have absolutely zero interest whatsoever in the commercial advantages of authors and writers and content creators generally; what they do is claim to be 'holding a platform' for this special 'genre' or that style of writing or whatever, but what they are really doing is amassing a lot of followers and members and having them contribute stuff liberally all the while not letting on that there is a commercial benefit TO THEM.

Let's say you have a thousand members in a group - okay so what if the new FB 'Libra' people offer you fifty thousand dollars for your member list? Are you going to tell anyone?

Do any of you realize that this kind of thing is happening FOR REAL?? How about you as a writer - are YOU happy that you are continuously being thieved from like this over your hard work and intellectual property that absolutely everyone seems to think should and must be freely contributed to major mainstream platforms like FB forever and ever... ...because -. Because? Because why?

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm opposed to even mentioning ZuckerBook anywhere in any way. I consider it a criminal enterprise that should be removed from the web.

You took the words from me. "Criminal enterprise", exactly.

I will confess to using FB for a few months over a decade ago when a unique situation left me no other choice. I dropped FB as soon as possible. I see many businesses have FB presences, likely because, like me, they felt a compelling need. FB is the offer they couldn't refuse. Sound familiar?

 

[Handley_Page]

People have screen-names so they can be strictly anonymous. Linking Facebook to Literotica would do the exact opposite. I think FB and Lit should be separate for that reason alone.

I agree.