Why are so many people getting their underwear bunched up over someone starting a facebook group...
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As has proved out over about three decades, starting "another group", dilutes the few that were there, then, the new and old usually all fail.
FB has also proven to really suck as a group host, this was discovered about ten years ago, and it's far worse now. Aside from being a newer gimmick, about 90% of the people on groups in their current forms won't go to FB, so even the notion is a failure, and the mere suggestion is comparable to announcing an ultimate death all around, it's a last minute ditch-attempt. If it's not working flawlessly here, why would it somewhere else with less people, resources, and interest?
So, fine now, start another, make things crap, lose the new and old and have something limping along that barely worked at best, then dies. The reactions you see are from those that have been around long enough to know how bad the idea is, and those that think the reaction is excessive haven't been around long enough to know how bad it can be. Stick around another twenty years, you'll see.
It's not just FB, starting yet one more .IO or Yahoo group almost always has the same affect. For the 125 groups or so that I am on, another 1,500 or so have crashed a burned.
Kurt
