[Frameworks] Facebook: PLEASE STOP

[Pip Chodorov]

Dear friends,

I started FrameWorks in December 1995 because I was looking around 
for a discussion group on experimental film, couldn't find one and 
decided to create one.

It took us fifteen years to reach 1000 members - that happened just a 
few months ago. Today there are 1077 members on FrameWorks. There are 
more posts than ever before. I consider that a measure of success.

Another interesting litmus test is noticing which discussions cause 
people to sign off FrameWorks. Five people left the list during the 
discussion thread "Facebook". People tend to sign off when there are 
many posts in one day with very limited content and many nested 
requoted posts attached. Please think of the people in digest mode 
and remove all the previous posts within your reply.

So I would say that FrameWorks is doing fine as is, and I will 
continue to manage it in the same way. Those interested in a Facebook 
group can try that and see how it goes. I personally avoid Facebook 
if I can (although an intern for Re:Voir/The Film Gallery did create 
a Facebook page for us last summer - I guess it's important to have 
one and it's useful to promote events and releases, but there is an 
incredibly low signal to noise ratio on that site). So yes, let's 
stop the thread and start the experiment.

In general, for me, e-mails come in and automatically get sorted by 
Eudora so that all FrameWorks posts end up in the FrameWorks box 
where I can interact with them if they get my attention. I won't ever 
have the time to go seek out posts on a website. I have personally 
archived all 57940 FrameWorks emails on Eudora which has a very quick 
and powerful search engine. That archive has become a very good 
research tool. If anybody needs a global search done from the 
archive, just let me know.

Onwards!
Pip Chodorov, FrameWorks