Posted on 07/09/2018 7:21:13 AM PDT by davikkm
gab.ai
mewe.com
If you happen to have a private email domain for your family (e.g. family.org or something similar) you can use a product called Yammer. It is owned by Microsoft now but is essentially Facebook for corporations. It allows only users who have email addresses that match a company domain to gain access while restricting all others.
So dad@family.org, mom@family.org, etc. can all join and exchange social media posts/pictures, but if you don’t have an email on the approved domain, you can’t join at all.
“Yammer”
We had it at my last company.
The problem was the only ones that used it was people with nothing useful to say.
Also, being international it had too broad a reach to be useful.
For a family it might be good but we don’t own the domain (I don’t think, I have to check with my brothers). Also getting my family on the same page on anything (see what I did there?) was a minor miracle. LOL!
I forgot to thank you for the suggestion.
Yammer is a pretty good idea if you can get everyone to play along.
“That’s the thing about Facebook for me. I’ve never, EVER clicked on an ad”
actually,i’ve never even SEEN an ad on FB because I use every ad-blocker known to mankind on my browsers ... actually I rarely see ANY ads on ANY pages ... nonetheless, i haven’t clicked on a single ad for the last several years ... early on i clicked on a couple, and realized the reason they were advertising was that they had over-priced, inferior products compared to mainstream sites that didn’t have to advertise ...
“Wake up people, IWB is click bait territory 100%.”
you are correct ...
Post is fake news. I agree.
If it gets real bad the market will welcome competition and somebody else will make tons of $$$
My news feed gets a lot of “suggested” articles.
Most of these pages seem to have been publishing anti-science fake news in the hopes of selling fake products.
From the looks of it, this is what a Fake News purge SHOULD look like: ridding the internet of what LOOKS like news, but is really deceptive advertising. The only problem — and it’s a legitimate problem — is that it’s a slippery slope from fake news to “fake news.” Today, it’s conspiracy peddlers telling people that scientists are conspiring to keep people dying of cancer; tomorrow it may be scriptural literalists questioning evolution or asserting that there are therapies to help sexual abuse victims overcome homosexual impulses, or simply dissent from the Deep State. Of course, some of that has already occurred (e.g., Diamond and Silk)! So this may not be a slippery slope TO that so much as a retreat to more legitimate fake news purges.
Facebook keeps me in touch with various groups: Friends, Family, former students, the Peterborough High School class of 1969 and most of the bikers who posted on rec.motorcycles.harley on Usenet in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is a excellent tool for that.
Compared to Usenet, it is quite civil and the graphics add what we didn’t have back then.
It is just a tool, like any other. If you learn how to use it, it can be very good.
Facebook is for spying on yourself for anyone who wants the data - government, advertisers, personal enemies, you name it.
Why in the world would they take down a Nikolai Tesla group though?
Homeopathic remedies - alternate treatment for disease, etc., seems like a lawsuit in the making.
Wake me up when they're political commentary sites.
Yep. I use it to keep in touch with people ... many who are out of town. Works fine for my purposes. Of course it is a FREE product and no one is forced to use it.
It is pretty foolish to have a Facebook account. Hopefully, more people will wake up to that fact.
You’re welcome!
I’ve used Yammer before in a corporation. My experience was similar to yours as most of the posts were of little value.
For a small group or family, I can see it being much more useful, especially if you are trying to avoid Facebook and all the junk that accompanies it (spam, facebook games, surveys, etc.)
The trick is (1) owning your own domain and (2) getting your family to use it. At the company engagement with the platform was low and a lot of people don’t want an extra login when all their “friends” are on Facebook.
Facebook is a private firm and what they do is their concern and not mine since I do not give them any of my information to sell to advertisers.
Facebook has no stability.
Years ago, they deleted the membership of many groups, because they wanted people to embrace pages instead.
They should have just converted the groups to pages.
I saw the evil and waste of time of Fakebook about a month after I joined, around 2010.
Haven't been back since.
Facebook....what’s that?
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