> Most of the Facebook posts are pictures, links to stories and event notifications. Genealogy queries where folks can actually attach photos. Some of those posts wouldn’t work as well on the list serve. I would hope that people posting actual queries would be posting them in both places to get the benefit of as many eyes as possible. Another thing to remember is that the posts always seem to lessen through the summer as folks are out and about on vacations and such. Cheryl > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 17:40:05 -0400 > From: "Lisa Lepore" <lisa.lepore2@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Q-R] QR and Facebook > To: "'Patricia LeBeau'" <kola626@embarqmail.com>, > <QUEBEC-RESEARCH@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <54306935.74148c0a.560b.ffffe83b@mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > There is no cost to sign up for facebook, and you can make your page as > private > as you want it to be. > > I signed up for a few facebook groups when it seemed like there were less > posts on > genealogy lists like this. This is a very active list, but many of the the > others > I belong to have dwindled down to hardly any posts at all. It seems like > everyone > has moved to facebook and the blogs. > > Although some of the facebook groups are good [like the quebec group :-) > others are > not so great. It's hard to go back to find old messages, and in some cases, > people > delete their posts after they get their answers! > > I like the lists much better, > > Lisa > lisa.lepore2@gmail.com >