screamingflea
1-31-11, 11:36pm
Hi all, I hope you can offer me some pointers as I'm walking into some very unfamiliar territory.
In the interest of organizing my contacts on Facebook, I took advantage of the new "groups" function and created a category for my buds from my bipolar support group back in my former hometown. I didn't realize that I was creating a separate page by doing so, and that everyone would have the capacity to post to it, complete with its own private chat function. That's fine with me. Once I saw what it was I very seldom post anything there, usually just pages on interesting new research or some lite inspirational things.
It's been pretty well received. Surprisingly so. The other day the president of the group called me up and asked me to expand it to an official function of the group, open to any member. I'm very flattered, but also cautious because I feel that it should be closely moderated. In a vulnerable population like that a lot can go wrong, and I've seen support forums that are overrun by trolls. Not pretty. Since I'm three time zones away, and have a life and schedule of my own, I can't guarantee that I could maintain it to my standards.
SLF has a very different focus of course, but I've always been impressed at how you handle things here. I realize that a FB page is very different from a forum, but could you please offer me some pointers? I'm extremely low-tech, so you may want to dumb it down. :confused:
In the interest of organizing my contacts on Facebook, I took advantage of the new "groups" function and created a category for my buds from my bipolar support group back in my former hometown. I didn't realize that I was creating a separate page by doing so, and that everyone would have the capacity to post to it, complete with its own private chat function. That's fine with me. Once I saw what it was I very seldom post anything there, usually just pages on interesting new research or some lite inspirational things.
It's been pretty well received. Surprisingly so. The other day the president of the group called me up and asked me to expand it to an official function of the group, open to any member. I'm very flattered, but also cautious because I feel that it should be closely moderated. In a vulnerable population like that a lot can go wrong, and I've seen support forums that are overrun by trolls. Not pretty. Since I'm three time zones away, and have a life and schedule of my own, I can't guarantee that I could maintain it to my standards.
SLF has a very different focus of course, but I've always been impressed at how you handle things here. I realize that a FB page is very different from a forum, but could you please offer me some pointers? I'm extremely low-tech, so you may want to dumb it down. :confused: