Please welcome our new facebook administrator.

**SarinaP** · 12-18-2015, 07:16 PM

How cool! Cograts LouNeo, on this new admin appointment! Feel free to use my only "glamour fig" shot. Sorry it's teeny tiny, I can email you the original size if you choose it.

**JohnnyK** · 12-18-2015, 07:24 PM

Congrats on the new Admin gig LouNeo.

**LouNeo** · 12-18-2015, 07:27 PM

Thank you. Im looking forward to helping out and helping spread the word even further on the great group we have! Also thank you in advance for any photos you guys n gals allow us to use. With Social Media photos play a big role in it so the more we can get the better!

**JohnnyK** · 12-18-2015, 07:31 PM

I just checked Facebook and liked the page. I'll see what pictures I have for you.

**DBJohnson** · 12-18-2015, 07:53 PM

I deactivated my FB account a couple years ago, but good to hear that OurFigs is spreading its reach.

**eboone** · 12-18-2015, 08:00 PM

I'm gonna ask why?
Not trying to cause trouble, but some of us don't do Facebook.
Maybe I'm wrong but I see this as fragmenting our community a bit. How does it really benefit us? Now we will have yet another website to check regularly to keep up with the world of figs and fig growers. I have never seen the benefit of Facebook vs a forum like OurFigs that has so many capabilities.
So tell me why I'm wrong

**strudeldog** · 12-18-2015, 08:29 PM

You can use any of the photos I have posted here. Probably a few hundred mostly of my left hand. The photo tab I think summarizes all the photos posted on all the threads

**WillsC** · 12-18-2015, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by eboone View Post

I'm gonna ask why?
Not trying to cause trouble, but some of us don't do Facebook.
Maybe I'm wrong but I see this as fragmenting our community a bit. How does it really benefit us? Now we will have yet another website to check regularly to keep up with the world of figs and fig growers. I have never seen the benefit of Facebook vs a forum like OurFigs that has so many capabilities.
So tell me why I'm wrong

Ed,

Mostly as a way to attract new members. I am not a facebook person either but it is a new world and even us fig hoarders need to move with the times.

**pppldj** · 12-18-2015, 09:26 PM

Welcome Lou to becoming the facebook administrator.

**quackmaster** · 12-18-2015, 09:29 PM

Welcome and congrats!

**Brian M** · 12-18-2015, 09:41 PM

Will this be a closed group?

**Hershell** · 12-18-2015, 09:53 PM

Welcome and thanks. Please don't allow Wills to harris me on Facebook

**AscPete** · 12-18-2015, 10:10 PM

Welcome and Good Luck in your new position

I'll visit, but I'm not a member.

**LouNeo** · 12-18-2015, 10:19 PM

Brian M As of right now the Facebook Page that was setup is actually just a Facebook business page which in upon itself would be just a public face on Facebook for the group. I believe Wills thoughts behind this is to use that Page to promote what the OurFigs forum is all about and use it as a recruitment tool for lack of a better word in order to help grow this forum. If Wills wants to setup a Facebook Group I will talk with him about the different settings possible, be it Open group, Closed Group, or Secret Group and see what makes the most sense for the forums goals.

In response to the concerns brought up by eboone, there is always a balancing act when bringing on an actual group or community on Facebook. As you mention there is very often a fragmentation of content and honestly very much a duplication of content and another place to check for information etc. With that said there is also a lot of plus side to it, its one more place for users to communicate with each other, its something that a lot of us may already be on most of the day anyhow, we get notification of any posts we are part of without having to "subscribe", and its instant communication which doesnt always happen on here like that. With all of that said though, right now I believe Wills actual intention is to have just a Facebook Page to promote this forum as opposed to having a group/community where people are able to full interact with each other which essentially often takes place of a forum. You definitely have valid concerns and in my short time with speaking with Wills, it seems like he would air on the side of whatever is best for the group. As I think he would say, its "Our" Group!

Thank you all for the welcomes! I look forward to it.

**Wisner** · 12-18-2015, 10:33 PM

This is one of my Celeste trees at 9 years of age. I started it from a cutting.

**fitzski** · 12-18-2015, 10:36 PM

Welcome and good luck. Hopefully it will drive more people to the forum and not vice versa.

**Chrisk** · 12-18-2015, 10:39 PM

Oh my oh my,what is next...tweeter, Instagram???? Lol, just kidding guys.
Congrats Lou and thanks for getting evolved and doing this. Ed ,just like you, i do not do Facebook and I also am a skeptic on this but I think I ll go for it.. What the heck were dipped in figs neck high already anyway . Here are a few pics from the LSU field trip ,July 2015!

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