Craig, I think your plan is an excellent one. I post on the message boards and email groups and recently have become active on Facebook and LinkedIn. Each of these has an appeal to a different audience, and I've made good contacts on each , that I would not have made on the others. By running an experiment for a month, you'll find if it works for you - clearly it won't work for everybody. As with almost everything on the web - be careful - don't release any information to anyone that you aren't willing to see on a billboard driving into your home towm. The electrons last forever and are very easily passed around. On the ohter hand, most of what we do as genealogists, we have often posted freely, and encourage others to read and study it. Facebook will provide yet another venue for our hobby. Thanks Jim Bartlett On 09/20/11, Craig Kilby<[email protected]> wrote: Hello all, I am doing something experimental here. I created a facebook (aka fb) group for our list. This may be a good idea or a bad idea. Time will tell. The reason why is that many rootsweb list administrators are doing this, and I thought I'd like to see what happens if we did the same thing. I suspect it will be a mixed bag of good and bad. The good part will be more participants. The bad part is that many of them will be drive-by newbies. The NNVHS has its own facebook page, and the recent even to raise funds for the NNVHS scholarship fund sold 13 tickets in a day by posting the event on its fb page. Face book is the poster child for mass communication. Nothing will change with the rootsweb list. This is purely optional on your part. Even if you already have a facebook account. If you do NOT have a facebook account, and don't want to have one, no further action is necessary You just won't see what people are posting there. Consequences: I will probably have to send over and over this same message. I may well change my mind about this. But, let's see what happens. It may also dumb-down our list, but it also may smart-up the list. Like I said, iI think it will be a mixed bag. If you are on facebook, you can join at: [1]http://www.facebook.com/groups/278272062202180/ Let me know your thoughts on it. If the reaction is favorable, I will keep it going. If the reaction is negative, I'll take it down. I only ask that we give it a month to see what happens with it before we pass final judgment. Underline the word FINAL. Craig References 1. http://www.facebook.com/groups/278272062202180/