The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166566   Message #4006448
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
29-Aug-19 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: Music links from Facebook, other sources
Subject: RE: Music links from Facebook, other sources
If you're not a member of Facebook then you're seeing the text that was put in place to describe the page contents. That remark is off to one side if you click on the "About" tab to learn more about why the page is there.

The trouble is that there are a lot of members who discovered the Facebook page through Facebook itself, they were vetted and added by administrators, but don't realize that while musical stuff is shared there and substantive discussions get good and quick responses, it all vanishes from sight and is of no use to the ACTUAL Mudcat site. It is, frankly, a very selfish way to get information - people ask and learn exactly what they want to learn and move on - and share none of back to Mudcat for everyone else who comes along later with the same interest.

So to repeat myself: Facebook gets a lot of eyeballs everyday and many of them are from Mudcat members, but Facebook gets all of the ad revenue and contributes very little to this site, except it's a place where current activities can be promoted and more people are likely to see it. When the important content of music history and chords and words and versions of songs and performance links and such are listed on Facebook it is gone within a few hours, no one the wiser most of the time. The important content needs to be preserved here at Mudcat.org.

/rant off/