On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:03:13 -0800, Frank Whiteley wrote:

On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 5:26:05 AM UTC-7, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:15:56 -0800, Bruce Hoult wrote:

On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 5:16:20 AM UTC+3, Dan Marotta wrote:
What happens when you "like" something and why should I do it?

On 1/12/2017 1:20 PM, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 12:01:02 PM UTC-7, Dan Stroschine
wrote:
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 3:28:41 AM UTC-7, Dave Springford
wrote:
There are 70 trackers deployed amongst 113 pilots. They were
dispersed such that every country has at least one tracker per
class so you can probably guess where the other pilot from each
country is, in each class

The tracking seems to be working great! The refresh is amazing.
Now it's even more interesting to watch.
Yes, but the missing 43 trackers and those not functioning make
the race less interesting because you can see some of the real
challenges live. It'll get better along with the new Iridium
satellite constellation and other changes.

WRT Facebook reluctance and luddites. I don't post much on
Facebook,
but really do enjoy the streams from various quarters including
many of the people I shared a military career with. Social media
is not a panacea, the Internet is simply a smorgasbord of shifting
paradigms. So much so that it is difficult to keep up with more
than 3-4 or maybe a half dozen. However, Facebook does allow for
various soaring communities to share and for some sites to
aggregate this actively. I expect more in the future.

I'll share that someone with a video channel has recently and
suddenly seen a huge increase in viewers and comments and
questions that appear to be contact from a new demographic,
millennials I'd reckon, based on the banter. Almost like a celeb
tweeted a channel checkout to a fanbase. Flash in the pan or long
term impact remains to be seen.

So get a gmail or some other toss away account, sign up for
Facebook and like some soaring related pages. Twitter is not as
engaged in US Soaring as it is in Europe and Canada. I'm clueless
about snapchat, but my attention span is longer than 30 seconds.

The person who posted the thing you "like" can see a count of how
many people "liked" it (and can bring up a list of just who) and may
get a warm fuzzy feeling in their tummy.

... and the Zuck gets more information about you that he can flog to
advertisers.


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Yeah, showing me ads for items I've already purchased via Amazon somehow
seems like a waste of bandwidth. Scrolling past the other ads is
trivial. We don't get any of that on our organizational pages. Remember
MySpace? Still out there but no one talks about it much. Same could
happen with Facebook in time but soaring organizations can't really
ignore it for now. A lot of video and other content is there at the
moment that may not appear elsewhere, which is unfortunate, because I'd
really like to share it with Bob. BGA makes pretty good use of FB and
Twitter.

Your personal digital footprint is interesting BTW.

I minimise it somewhat, but I do run a couple of websites and have
projects on SourceForge and have fairly wide interests.

OTOH I don't use any social media, unless you count Newsgroups accessed
over NNTP and SEN. My home site is locked up fairly tight and checked for
leaks and visibility with Gibson Research's ShieldsUP tool.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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