Any of you on Facebook?

[Robin Garr]

Some of the folks on our Wine Forum started a Facebook group, and it's kind of fun.

Now I'm wondering if any of you LouisvilleHotByters are Facebook users and would like to link up. (At least one of you already has ... you know who you are ... )

If you want to "friend me up" on Facebook, just search for my name, entered just the same as here. If there's a critical mass of us foodies, maybe we could figure out a way to use it for something.

Let's do - may be a little easier to post pictures, have some permanent links to shared resources, etc. (But nobody start a bunch of superpoking or anything!).

[Robin Garr]

Let's do - may be a little easier to post pictures, have some permanent links to shared resources, etc. (But nobody start a bunch of superpoking or anything!).

I'm still learning my way around Facebook, TP. My only concern would be that we don't start something so cool that it draws us and our discussions away from this forum!

I'm still learning my way around Facebook, TP. My only concern would be that we don't start something so cool that it draws us and our discussions away from this forum!

Facebook and its myriad applications can really drive one crazy at times - hopefully we won't get drawn into the silliness that some folks create with all of it. I'll be you end up with more Hot Bytes traffic, though, once the "tree" of relationships begins to grow (much like LinkedIn).

[Robin Garr]

I'll bet you end up with more Hot Bytes traffic, though, once the "tree" of relationships begins to grow (much like LinkedIn).

No doubt ... as I said, it's like LinkedIn but more social than business-oriented. Actually, I got the iPhone Facebook applet and do most of my Facebook play from there.

Not just HotBytes, either ... this actually started over with the WineLovers group, and a lot of my first raft of friends came sailing in from over there.

Superpoking? Enlighten me, please!

It's not near as much fun as it sounds like ...

Let's do - may be a little easier to post pictures, have some permanent links to shared resources, etc. (But nobody start a bunch of superpoking or anything!).

I'm still learning my way around Facebook, TP. My only concern would be that we don't start something so cool that it draws us and our discussions away from this forum!

I have a "Louisville History & Issues on Facebook" group there too, and I too have been trying hard not to make it too cool to keep people from checking out the discussion board it's based on.

By the way, what's the name of the Facebook group in question?

[Robin Garr]

By the way, what's the name of the Facebook group in question?

Oh, no group as yet. I'm still just poking around and discovering how Facebook works. A bunch of my wine buddies from the WineLovers forums just hooked up as friends, that's all, and suddenly people I know started noticing me and I'm getting friended up from all over.

So, let's do this - I'm in for sure. Robin? Shall we create a group? I mean, fact is the plug can be pulled on it later if it becomes counter-productive. If nothing else, it's a good way to help promote the forums to people who may not find it otherwise.

I am on Facebook for at least a moment or two every couple of days, so I'd be happy to assist in the maintenance and moderation.

A group would be great ... you can promote the website freely in the group description. I recently set up a group for our Miss Jeffersontown / Miss Louisville Pageant and it offers a site for the web address. It can always be dismantled ... I think it has the potential to drum up new forumites ...

[Robin Garr]

So, let's do this - I'm in for sure. Robin? Shall we create a group? I mean, fact is the plug can be pulled on it later if it becomes counter-productive. If nothing else, it's a good way to help promote the forums to people who may not find it otherwise.

I am on Facebook for at least a moment or two every couple of days, so I'd be happy to assist in the maintenance and moderation.

I'm finding it a lot of fun to play on Facebook ... it IS addictive, particularly with the iPhone applet so I can peek in from wherever I happen to be! And lots of foodies are E'ing me privately to thank me for posting about the stuff I make when I'm fooling around in the kitchen at home.

I just want to make sure that I don't accidentally create something that pulls us *away* from this Virtual Pub we're in, but I'm getting a sense now that Facebook is such a different environment that this shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks for offering to help, Bret. It's probably pretty intuitive, isn't it? Maybe I'll look around and try to set something up this afternoon and then yell if I need help. Or are there any "gotchas" that you would warn me about?

[Robin Garr]

A group would be great ... you can promote the website freely in the group description. I recently set up a group for our Miss Jeffersontown / Miss Louisville Pageant and it offers a site for the web address. It can always be dismantled ... I think it has the potential to drum up new forumites ...

See my note to Bret, Rebecca ... when I originally posted this, I was just discovering Facebook (I had only worked in the much more businesslike and formal LinkedIn before, and it's not nearly as much fun.

I was worried that a separate group might pull activity out of this forum, but now I'm thinking you're right ... it would be another good way to publicize LouisvilleHotBytes.com, particularly if we're allowed to let the entire Louisville Facebook group know about it ... or is that considered spamming? I sure don't want to get known as a Spam King ...

[Robin Garr]

Okay, it wasn't that complicated. You will now find the LouisvilleHotBytes Facebook group online, awaiting ... whatever we do with it! You've got to join Facebook to parcipate, but it's free and easy ... and, I warn you, can be addictive ...

LouisvilleHotBytes Facebook group

I'll also post this on the main forum ...