On 2015-09-20 18:43:19 +0000, Sqwertz said:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:49:40 -0700, gtr wrote:
>
>> On 2015-09-20 16:28:18 +0000, William said:
>>
>>> Is this just typical end of summer traffic on RFC? Seems slow with few
>>> postings. I guess things will pick up near Thanksgiving.
>>
>> I have not yet found anything of value in FaceBook. I don't doubt that
>> there are brief twitter-like exchanges there, and lots of them. But I
>> have not yet found substantive discussion of anything, cooking included.
>
> You must not be looking in the right places.

Perhaps not. I've searched for "cooking groups" and such and find a
number that are closed groups; perhaps some of these are the "right
places" but inaccessible. Any clues as to how such groups can be found
are appreciated.

But I've spent almost a month really trying to study facebook and set
up a presence there. From what I've seen, "discussions" on most any
topic seem to be single paragraph exchanges, with around 5 iterations
making for a "long exchange", and most falling short of that. Very
cursory. Not what I'd call a discussion per se.

That said, I've only been subscribed to a couple of groups, now
unsubscribed. My initial assessment is that it's a not particularly
expansive user interface. Kinda like twitter with significant elbow
room, most of which is unused.