How many here Post on Facebook about Scuba Diving?

[Tigerman]

I dropped facebook a few years ago after reading one too many articles in business rags about folks losing their jobs over something they or even a friend posted on that site. Not like scubaboard is any more private, but when I review prospective employees I do get a copy of everything they've ever posted on facebook and I don't get a copy of everything they've posted on various internet message boards.

Facebook may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but no website is worth risking a career over.

And thats why you just dont add anyone and their mother, sister and dog, but are selective about who you friend as well as tale care of your privacy settings..
The latest is that people dont get employed because "only psychos with things to hide dont have FB".

BTW, you know that your FB account wont get deleted even if you request them to close it?

 

[Hockeynut]

All my real buddies can be found on Facebook. That's where the real action happens. SB, especially Texas Swamp Divers, is just fantasy island.

 

[windapp]

The local dive charter operator where I live uses facebook exclusively to post when the dives are going to be. So...No facebook, no diving.

 

[Hockeynut]

Yes. FB is my primary location for posting about my diving. FB has really hit the Great Lakes Wrecking Crew Forum pretty hard. We have a FB group and that is where most of the action is now, not on SB. Why? I believe it's because on SB you can "hide" behind an alias, while on FB you cannot. You know who everyone is and can also see and interact with other aspects of their lives. Just a thought.

While I doubt it's happening in your group, I really hope you're not this naive.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

While I doubt it's happening in your group, I really hope you're not this naive.

It certainly happens, but is far less common on FB than here on SB where many of us use names like Hockeynut and Divin'Hoosier. In the local forum I'm referring to (Great Lakes Wrecking Crew), most of us know each other from various Meet & Greets. When a person requests to join the group on FB who the mods don't know, the admins of the group reach out to those of us who have been around a few years to see if we know them. This allows us to keep spammers at bay. When an interloper does present themselves, and it has occurred, they are summarily removed.

My point is that people (typically) join FB as themselves and also share about other aspects of their lives. It feels more personal, more intimate. Your mileage may of course vary, but it is a key reason IMO that much of the GLWC forum traffic has moved to FB. That and the fact that we as a community can control the group membership.

 

[danvolker]

It certainly happens, but is far less common on FB than here on SB where many of us use names like Hockeynut and Divin'Hoosier. In the local forum I'm referring to (Great Lakes Wrecking Crew), most of us know each other from various Meet & Greets. When a person requests to join the group on FB who the mods don't know, the admins of the group reach out to those of us who have been around a few years to see if we know them. This allows us to keep spammers at bay. When an interloper does present themselves, and it has occurred, they are summarily removed.

My point is that people (typically) join FB as themselves and also share about other aspects of their lives. It feels more personal, more intimate. Your mileage may of course vary, but it is a key reason IMO that much of the GLWC forum traffic has moved to FB. That and the fact that we as a community can control the group membership.

As I am getting in to the whole Facebook thing, one of the things that I really do like about it, is that it is about being able to chat with a circle of FRIENDS, each a real person, and if someone DESIRES to be added to your list of friends, you can prevent this from occurring if you believe the Friend request is from a "faker" or someone that wants to remain anonymous. I don't know that I would even chat with anyone on SB that insisted on being anonymous, if there was a way to screen out all the fakers.

The best thing about scubaboard ( to me) is being able to see topics that interest me, and then to be able to chat with friends about the topic. I know maybe 50 or 100 posters on SB to enough of a degree to think I "know them", that they are not anonymous to me, even if they use a fake user name. I guess there is nothing preventing me from doing topical discussions I like on FB, and one thing I know in that direction, is that in over 40 years of diving, I have never had an arguement with a diver on a charterboat or a FRIEND on a BOAT, that left either one of us unhappy/stressed, wishing we were somewhere else. I am totally sick of getting into arguments here on SB. And again, this is NEVER a problem with someone you know.
There is just something different about chatting with your friends, versus with the anonymous.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

It certainly happens, but is far less common on FB than here on SB where many of us use names like Hockeynut and Divin'Hoosier. In the local forum I'm referring to (Great Lakes Wrecking Crew), most of us know each other from various Meet & Greets. When a person requests to join the group on FB who the mods don't know, the admins of the group reach out to those of us who have been around a few years to see if we know them. This allows us to keep spammers at bay. When an interloper does present themselves, and it has occurred, they are summarily removed.

My point is that people (typically) join FB as themselves and also share about other aspects of their lives. It feels more personal, more intimate. Your mileage may of course vary, but it is a key reason IMO that much of the GLWC forum traffic has moved to FB. That and the fact that we as a community can control the group membership.

By the way ... I picked an alias instead of a name when I joined ScubaBoard because that's just how it seemed most did it. It wasn't to hide behind an alias. I'm a real person ... Jim Blay ... and I live in central Indiana. I can be found on Facebook using that information

 

[jewelofnile69]

I use FB and I post stuff about diving there and have diver friends that I'm "friends" with as well as diving groups that I'm either "friends" with or have "liked" their page. I generally hate adds but every once in awhile I see something that sparks my interest. I don't buy print and I rarely ever buy anything from seeing it on a TV add.

I also only use an alias on boards that is different than my real name since it seems that it's what "everyone does." My alias comes from a nickname I was given when I was a kid based on my real name and that great movie with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner (who I sound eerily alike...not her current voice, her old voice). If you are doing stupid things on FB and boards that could keep you from being hired for a job, it's your own damn fault.

 

[SEALAB Author Ben H.]

I set up a personal FB page a few years back, since that seemed to be the thing to do, then started a professional one, a public page, for posts that might bore my friends but could be useful or interesting to readers (or possible readers) of my new book, SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor. But I often seem to have much more interaction with folks here on SB than on FB. I do like the "real name" aspect of FB, though, I must say, coming from the world of nonfiction, as I do.

 

[Hank49]

BTW, you know that your FB account wont get deleted even if you request them to close it?

I was wondering about that. I have four Facebook Friends who have died. How does that work?

I hardly get emails anymore because most friends and family who I'm close to are on Facebook. I don't post much except spearfishing lies and pictures of dead fish....some family stuff. It's been a great way to stay in contact with the people I met and worked with around the world over the last 35 years.