Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media

Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by mwcampbell on Sunday March 25, 2018 @11:26AM (#16672567)

> My grandparent's aren't going to host and configure their own blog.

My grandparents didn't set up their own Facebook account either. We (mainly my mom, I think) did it for them. You could help your grandparents set up a blog, then show them how to post to it (think something like WordPress or Ghost, not a static site using Markdown and Git). After all, they had to learn the Facebook interface too.

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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by packet_nerd on Sunday March 25, 2018 @11:41AM (#16672653)

> You could help your grandparents set up a blog

I had some extra server space after a side project a few years ago and offered to set up Wordpress blogs for my mom and a few friends. Most of them were basically never used. My mom kept up near weekly posts for a year and a half or so, but it's been several years since her last post. I bet I could delete them all right now and it would be next Thanksgiving before they noticed.

But, they're always asking why I'm not on FB.

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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by striking on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:11PM (#16673152)

Because there's no social confirmation for their posts. They have no idea if people read them or liked them.

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