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Subject:        Re: Maps-L is on Facebook
Date:   Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:28:05 -0400
From:   susan a hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Joel - that's a good reason to perhaps make the FB page a chat-only,
socializing version of MAPS-L. As I said before, my intention was not to
supplant the email list, but to make it accessible to people who don't
use email lists and are already FB-ready. Absolutely not to twist any
arms into joining FB, really.

     On 6/14/2011 3:19 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library,

     UW Milwaukee wrote:

         I only notice the marketing when it is
         actually interesting to me. 98% of the time it's just a reflex to
         ignore it.


     Just for the record, a good part of the issue is not what you notice or
     what may interest you, i.e. just the visual advertising. It is what is
     being gathered about you and your "friends" behind the scenes. Why do
     you think the company has such a high monetary valuation, or is
expected
     to be a blockbuster IPO?

     Thanks to everyone for their current and future remarks.

                Joel Kovarsky