From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2013-04-05T06:42:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook

Julian Leviston <julian@coretech.net.au> wrote:
> On 04/04/2013, at 11:44 AM, Aghori Shaivite <aghorishaivite@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Marc Heiler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > > Thing is, some people do not use Facebook and never will.
> > > 
> > > I belong to that group.
> > > 
> > > I don't think it is good to exclude people, those barriers are not good
> > > at all.
> > 
> > Yeah... but some people don't use email, or the internet, or
> > computers.  So that doesn't mean a facebook group shouldn't exist just
> > because some individuals choose to not use facebook...
> 
> Email, internet and computers are an abundant technology. Facebook is
> a commercial business. See the difference?

(top-posting corrected)

Funny how we say these things about Facebook, but we don't see this
expressed about a another commercial social network which hosts git
repositories :)

Fwiw, I'm in the same group as Marc, but I also agree with Aghori.