What the frak do I do now that I made a Facebook account for our prganization?

[bankside]

Fascinating.

Here's an article on Scotch Broom:

http://www.shim.bc.ca/invasivespecies/_private/scotchbroom.htm

 

[Kulindahr]

I found this https://www.facebook.com/bayocean/photos_stream and by golly, the place looks spectacular. You really should consider making use of a camera and capturing the sights to decorate your fb with.

Personally, I think having a blog with WordPress liberally sprinkled with scenic pics wouldn't hurt too.

Slightly misleading -- the only buildings on the Bayocean spit are outhouses.

One night I aim to engage in "ventilation terrorism", and install some air vents in them.....

 

[Kulindahr]

Fascinating.

Here's an article on Scotch Broom:

http://www.shim.bc.ca/invasivespecies/_private/scotchbroom.htm

Yeah. Sometimes I think the best control device would be a flamethrower.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I was fascinated with the Seed Weevil. Hopefully it's introduction doesn't spread damage to indigenous species. I work with other weevil species, and they're near impossible to eradicate once established.

 

[Kulindahr]

I was fascinated with the Seed Weevil. Hopefully it's introduction doesn't spread damage to indigenous species. I work with other weevil species, and they're near impossible to eradicate once established.

I emailed the Oregon Department of Agriculture to see if we can get some of these critters.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Good luck. Introduction of new, non-indigenous species usually takes years of study and research to make sure that it doesn't end up an environmental nightmare. Hopefully the instance in bankside' s link means most of that work has already been done. I didn't look too far into that weevil species. It's possible they're already indigenous. All those snout nosed weevils look the same to me.

 

[Kulindahr]

Great.


NOT!!!



There seem to be two Friends of Bayocean pages again. And it's crazy: using the same login information, my buddy (who's doing photos) and I end up on different pages.

So I have a page that shows likes, but has no photos, and a page with photos, but nothing else.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Bayocean/475857549162788?sk=photos

This one has no pictures. Perhaps you two are working on two different ones?

 

[Kulindahr]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Bayocean/475857549162788?sk=photos

This one has no pictures. Perhaps you two are working on two different ones?

Using the exact same identical information for logging in, he ends up at a Friends of Bayocean page that has no likes, but has pictures, while I end up at a page telling me I have two pages, both named Friends of Bayocean. I can go to either one, but he doesn't even see that option.

I deleted the page with the pictures, but it's still there. I tried to change the email address for that page, but the directions in Help are meaningless: they direct me to a button that isn't there, and when I click on the nearest thing to the description, the option the instructions say to select doesn't exist.

When he just tried to delete the only page he can reach, it asked if he really wanted to delete the account. Won't that delete everything, not just the one page?


As I try to work through this, I wonder how Facebook ever got past having a dozen people -- it's confusing, obtuse, has false information for instructions.....

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Can you rename them, adding a 01, and 02 ? That might make it easier to tell which is which.

I get lost in the settings and preferences for Facebook too, which is why I mostly avoid it. I can never tell if what I type is private or public.

 

[bankside]

I'm sorry I can't update you on my findings of the other day.

I did a google search to find it. I was presented with two entries, one ending in 475857549162788 and another with a different number entirely.

I was able to visit each page in turn. The content was very limited, different on each page basic as it was, but both pages appeared to be related. Given your difficulty in locating at least one of those pages, I wondered if you might have inadvertently created a duplicate page when attempting to update the skeleton content on the first page. I imagine that Facebook has automated services that try to detect and resolve duplicates of pages like that as a way to identify potential spam. It occurred to me that an inadvertent duplicate could set off all sorts of behind-the-scenes weirdness.

I'm sorry I can't tell you the number of the other page. It had been in my cache but I recently emptied it.

 

[bankside]

Oh, and Facebook has a very dodgy delete procedure. It doesn't really want people withdrawing content from Facebook because that doesn't serve its business model, so typically to delete a page requires multiple levels of "are you sure?" and so forth.

The act of logging in again can revive everything deleted with a mentality like "Phew! You decided to come back! We left your room just like it was when you ran away from home." It's actually quite irritating. And if your login credentials are associated with both pages, it could be that simple act of logging in that engages the rapid-undelete procedures on the Facebook servers.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

"We are the Facebook... You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. You must comply."

 

[Kulindahr]

Can you rename them, adding a 01, and 02 ? That might make it easier to tell which is which.

I get lost in the settings and preferences for Facebook too, which is why I mostly avoid it. I can never tell if what I type is private or public.

I thought of that about ten minutes after my last post. The one we've been trying to get rid of is now called "Useless Friends of Bayocean". Then my buddy unpublished it.