I’m not a fan of the new community pages on facebook.
Take this one for example. I believe I’m a member because I have Making Music as something I like in my profile:
You can see these posts because these people have very VERY low privacy settings
The thing is, I do like making music, but I don’t like that facebook has assumed my (and 10,700 some odd other people) liking the making music page on their site. I actually really dislike it, it’s a terrible page. It brings nothing to the table, offers no value to any of us, just scrapes our posts for the keywords making music and drops them on it’s wall.
So now I guess we need to be aware that when we post about what we’re up to we’re not actually networking with friends and family, and sharing our lives with our community. We’re also now generating content that is pulled without our knowledge or express consent on a post-by-post basis. I think this is all or nothing thus far, I can’t find a trigger or setting for it to ask permission.
I want to know your thoughts on this though – Is this creating fresh new dialogue between like-minded individuals where none existed? Is it building stronger communities? Or is it just another step towards our entire lives being a matter of public record?