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  • From: Tom Celona <tcelona@gmail.com>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] NAFEX on Facebook
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:32:18 -0500

I think you've got quite the wrong impression of the NAFEX facebook site.
The quality of the content is high. As an example, here are the most recent
topics of discussion, in order.

1. update from mulberry grafting experiments, with pictures
2. discussion of grape pest problems, with pictures
3. discussion and link to article about drought and how it relates to
fruit growers.
4. discussion of the relative effects of age and sun exposure on the
bearing of kaki persimmons.

If anyone doesn't want to be involved with facebook, I get it. No big deal.
But I don't think it benefits to suggest the content on the facebook NAFEX
site is any lower than it is here. It's simply not true.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:18 AM, sherwin <sherwindu@att.net> wrote:

> On 9/24/2014 7:23 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
>
>> Sherwin, you crack me up. Describing young folks interested in
>> permaculture, horticulture, botany, fruit exploration, food production,
>> organics, climate change, ecology, community building, plant breeding,
>> networking as Facebookers because they happen to be on a Facebook group is
>> nothing short of phobia.
>>
> Funny, I don't remember mentioning the age of these people. I think
> it afflicts people of all ages. Call it phobia, I say many
> people are tied to their computers and cell phones like an umbilical
> cord. I am not anti-computer, but with some people,
> this need for enormous communications is not normal. There is some
> interesting content on these facebook sites, but
> it is sometimes disguised among a bunch of chit chat and I personally
> don't want to bother searching for it.
>
>> As for off topic and digressions, you apparently haven't been on this
>> list all that long because along with all the amazing discussions that have
>> taken place here, those are inevitable byproducts of any forum, chat,
>> group, bulletin board. People are people. Let a 1000 flowers bloom.
>>
>
> Maybe, with a few exceptions, most of the interesting people on the
> Nafex forum are basically gardeners first and
> computer geeks last. They do not walk around their orchards with
> their cell phones glued to their heads. Their
> postings are strictly about raising fruit and not about daily trivia
> found on facebook sites.
>
> Sherwin
>
>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>>
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:32 PM, sherwin wrote:
>>
>> There is a price to pay to take in all these facebooker's. Some of them
>>> have no knowledge of growing fruit and ask a
>>> lot of stupid questions. I have always admired the level of
>>> expertise on the Ibiblio Nafex forum and have tried to
>>> emulate this high standard as administrator of the Midfex Ibiblio
>>> forum. I have noticed that most chat sites like
>>> facebook tend to downgrade the quality of discussion, with people
>>> going off on tangents not even related to the
>>> prime identity of the particular forum.
>>>
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