Miguel,

From my perspective there are too many ways to connect and all they do is
distract me from things that I wish to do. I am a member of COA and AMS. I
follow postings on Conch-L and a few other lists. I can be reached by
e-mail and snail mail. I am also on ResearchGate and LinkedIn. Any more
than this and I will decompensate.

I am not on Facebook, I do not text message or twitter. I'm from the older
generation (60yo) who likes to pick up a phone and call someone and not
text them.

This explanation may hold for other 'older' malacologists/conchologists as
well.




> Dear all,
>
> I am considering the strategy in the social networks to disseminate a
> Spanish website that a friend and I have been building over the last
> years (http://malacowiki.wikispaces.com/) and I have found out a few
> things that I hadn't noticed before.
>
> While there is a vibrant community in Facebook and a reasonable bunch of
> excellent pictures in Flickr, I do miss more people on twitter. This is
> a bit on the surprising side. My reasoning maybe a flawed as I am not a
> twitter user.  However, if I was one, I would definitely follow anyone
> who is willing to say "hey, guys, did you see the latest article in
> Zootaxa about clausiliids? + link to abstract"  or "New book on
> landsnails of Zambia published". Even posting links to the conch-l
> archives when there's something relevant would have a value in itself.
> Why is this not happening? Is it that malacologists are generally not on
> twitter or how can we explain it?
>
> For instance, I find this quite relevant: https://twitter.com/AMS1931
> and however there are less than 100 followers! I looked for more
> accounts and they are either not specialised or they simply have very
> few followers.
>
> My idea was to maintain an account in English focused on malacology. But
> I fear that it may not be worth the trouble. What do you think?
>
> Miguel
> P.S.: in case anyone feels curious :) We have only created entries for
>  >60  terrestrial species so far:
> http://malacowiki.wikispaces.com/ListadoGasteropodosTerrestres
>
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Regards,
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm

Treasurer
American Malacological Society

Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Associate Professor - Family Medicine
Fellow-American Academy of Family Practice
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