Change

Okay, I’ve been experimenting with Facebook for a couple of weeks. I really *want* to like it, but I just find it frustrating.

• It’s easy to create “groups” but there seems to be very little support for “networks” that would support national membership organizations. For instance, there are now two groups named “American Association of University Women.” Wouldn’t it be fine if there were an AAUW “network” and then subgroups could form — and be encouraged to use a more specific name?
• It’s just so closed…. You must register with Facebook to see any of the content.
• Its support for RSS is limited. You can set it up so it looks like your RSS reader, but you have to click on the RSS link to see the messages. There’s nothing like just putting the headlines on your main page (ala blogger).

See this post from the NTEN blog that pretty much captures my reaction. [Props to Brett Meyer for an excellent job of capturing the tone.]

All that said, my branch is working on a project where we’re trying to connect to college students and it’s likely we’ll use Facebook as an organizing platform. Oh, well.