Electricians on Facebook - Come join us please, we're late and need help

[Simon47]

In a way it's a pity - social media has so many potential positives, but corporate greed has so poisoned the well that some of us won't go near it.

 

[littlespark]

I don’t get the “corporate greed” bit


Facebook, X, TikTok… all free to the casual user.
If you use any platform for a business, then expect to pay just like any other advertising medium.

Social media, and the internet in general has been spoiled, first by the people that use it for nefarious means, then by the company’s that run them trying to put in place safeguards brought in by governments trying to make the internet safer because of those first people….


Remember a time when the internet was at its infancy. The only content was low res soft ---- pictures, Star Trek fan fiction and a cartoon of a dancing hamster.
My entire university coursework fitted on a handful of 1.44Mb floppy disks, it took 3 days to download a 96kbs song and Amazon only sold books.


Yes… I am an “oldie” that reads Facebook… I don’t post though… but I read it to make sure my even more elderly parents don’t post anything stupid on theirs.

 

[freddo]

Facebook is a joke, I don't use it very much, just for some fire/security type groups. If I 'like' more than 3 things in a day my account gets restricted for 24 hours. Total Shyte.

 

[Simon47]

I don’t get the “corporate greed” bit
Facebook, X, TikTok… all free to the casual user. .

Notice that they don't offer a paid option where they'll respect your privacy, not stalk you, not build a massive detailed profile of you, not push ads at you, not sell you to thers, and so on ?
Instead they actively ignore data protection and privacy laws and follow you around the internet in a way that would cause calls to the police if it happened in the physical world.

Take a simple example. Whatsapp is basically another arm of Fecesborg. Install it on your mobile and it won't work unless you give it access to your contacts - which it immediately hoovers up and uploads to add to it's illegal data haul. That is illegal in the EU and UK unless you (the person installing it and giving it access to your contacts) het explicit informed consent from every person in your contacts.
Does Whatsapp warn you abput that ? Does it allow you to not upload contact information ? No, it actively forces law breaking.
That's just one example.

That to.my mind makes it a very expensive thing to use.

And all because too many people see "free" and don't look any further.

 

[Admin]

Haha I love you guys you're my kinda people. Forum people.

But I'm having to compete with such things so want show them how it's done.

They keep saying they own something. There's a silly sausage who registered the trademark (image not text text was denied) tilers community and said to me, come back to us when you've got 6k members.

I have 21k tilers lol

They don't own anything on Facebook doesn't matter how big your page or group is. Facebook owns it.

There are now pathetic attempts of Facebook claiming to get page owners earn on there but they just want influencers not trade pages.

Will pee them off the most when I advertise my page and use their page as the target audience only. Literally advertise only on their page.

It's mental how Facebook can allow that but it's money they don't care lol

 

[Simon47]

That about sums it up. Nothing they do is about anything but money.

 

[nicebutdim]

That about sums it up. Nothing they do is about anything but money.

I have no objection to Facebook making money, but do have strong objections about how they use information to do so.

 

[Admin]

It'll get its own following, not us hardcore forum users. (Well, I've got to do it like lol it's my business - but I will be using fake details for everything I can do with my accounts, pages and groups there)

But that said there will be some forum users who do use facebook too.

And I know loads of tilers that use it and get work via it.

 

[UNG]

And I know loads of tilers that use it and get work via it.

When your work is all on the surface there is something visual to show but like many others on here I find that I don't have much to show once the tilers have covered it up

 

[pirate]

As an oldie, I don't use facebook or twitter or tiktok... I do use instagram because my daughter posts lots of cool pictures, but I find I waste a lot of time on there just looking at pictures. I have posted a few myself, but probably only about 20 over 5 years. It's really just a gallery to me.
Whatsapp is useful, especially when making phone calls from foreign places. I guess these are "tools" that suit my life.

 

[Admin]

Just a quick update about this. I went to login and it wanted my contacts, I said no, it logged me in, then took me to the upload contacts page, I skipped it, went to my page, it asked to upload my contacts.

So I haven't even uploaded banners to them all or anything yet and it's already ----ing me right off.

So I think I need a few people who are already good with facebook to run our pages for us.

Anybody interested?

 

[Rockingit]

I've joined etc (as in your pages) and I live on FB as for some reason my industry is just fixated on it for work opportunities in closed pages, but I'm absolutely awful at keeping my own business page updated let alone anyone elses!!

Interestingly, about 7-8 years ago I tried to get an established FB community to move to a dedicated forum and it fell flat on it's face no matter how much work and programming time I put in, FB was king.

 

[Admin]

Well that's encouraging mate ill push it for 12 months and see where it gets me. anybody wishes to help let me know.

 

[Admin]

I've joined etc (as in your pages) and I live on FB as for some reason my industry is just fixated on it for work opportunities in closed pages, but I'm absolutely awful at keeping my own business page updated let alone anyone elses!!

Interestingly, about 7-8 years ago I tried to get an established FB community to move to a dedicated forum and it fell flat on it's face no matter how much work and programming time I put in, FB was king.

If you're in airports then help me with the electrical pages mate need a Facebook guru.

 

[Rockingit]

If you're in airports then help me with the electrical pages mate need a Facebook guru.

Go on then, DM me. But I'm promising nothing!!