Dear Wise Flist...

[ash48]

Yep.. I'm back again seeking advice on other fandom places to hangout.

I'm not really a Twitter gal and I don't think Tumblr is for me either. So now I'm considering Facebook. I've had no interest in getting a Facebook before now because, to be honest, real life stuff really doesn't interest me so much - except in real life of course. (and that's not to say I don't like hearing about YOUR rl stuff.. it's just I don't really want to follow rl friends to hear what they're up to...)

So.

I'm thinking a fandom Facebook page. Where I might most stuff a bit like on LJ. (vids etc. maybe occasional personal stuff) My thinking is this: the thing I enjoy most about fandom is connecting with other people who are into the same thing. Chatting, sharing creative works etc. But I realise that not everyone is on LJ. In fact I keep being told "I don't do LJ because it's too complicated". Which I agree with. Until you get to know it that is.

So. I'm curious if anyone else does this. Have a fandom named Facebook? I'm pretty keen to keep my RL and fandom life separate - mainly because I would hate for my students to ever find me.

I have a very limited knowledge of Facebook so I don't really know how it works. Though I understand you can create a community as well as a personal page. Ack! I am so internet challenged!

Advice?

(and um... if I did get a FB is it easy to find like minded peeps?)

Sorry for the lame questions..

Comments

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this. I have to say I was surprised but the overwhelming negativity toward the place. I mean, I know it has it's haters but because so many people seem to have a facebook I thought it was accommodating fannish activities. But from what I can gather by the response here it isn't.

This primarily started because of my Bobby vid being posted to Jim's facebook. The girl who posted it said I should look at getting one. It also made me aware that my vids are sometimes posted overthere and I really have no way of tracking that. Not that that really concerns me because I know once I put a vid on YT it essentially is no longer mine.
With the likes of Tumblr, where you can embed vids, it's even harder to keep track. I had a girl tell me she posted my Meta Song vid on Tumblr and told me how many "notes" it had received. I didn't have any idea what that meant - until I started investigating.

I'm fairly happy with the activity here - I rarely have the time to keep up with everything as it is, so I'm not really sure I need another place to hangout anyway.

I really like the set up here and the ability to post a variety of things - not to mention the sense of community.
xx

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, I think once vids became embeddable the genie was out of the bottle in being able to track an audience to them. There are still people who will repost fic, and I was intrigued to discover recently that at one time people expected archivists to come and find material rather than submitting it themselves, so that was even an expectation in certain fandoms. However, I think it's much less common than it is for vids (or even more so, art). One thing's for sure though, chances are it's vids people really enjoy that tend to travel :)