Problem with quitting Facebook has nothing to do with your (real) friends, at le...

bogomipz · on July 7, 2017

Well FB is also a "forum-like" platform. What does that mean?

What does FB provide your two communities that wouldn't be available via a Slack Channel/Blog/mailing list/subreddit etc?

softawre · on July 7, 2017

The fact that all of those people are already in the community on Facebook?

bogomipz · on July 7, 2017

So what FB is really providing is inertia.

You hear similar sentiments by people that they stay on FB because "I don't have any of these peoples email addresses."

I think this is the real danger, that FB replaces all these other channels and mediums.

Have you suggested to the group the possibility of moving off of FB? I mean it sounds like they are tech people if they are part of a computer group.