{"id":2782,"date":"2011-05-16T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2011-05-16T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:09:44","slug":"will-facebook-archive-the-one-million-strong-for-barack-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/will-facebook-archive-the-one-million-strong-for-barack-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Facebook “archive” the One Million Strong for Barack group?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Facebook announcing an “upgrade or die” policy for old-style groups, it’s a stressful time for One Million Strong for Barack<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 As the Erratic Synapse writes in Facebook Stands Poised to Take Our Group of Over 980,000 Obama Supporters… Back to 0<\/a> on Daily Kos<\/em>,<\/p>\n

Here’s the problem: our group<\/a> may not be eligible for upgrade. Furthermore, any group that fails to upgrade is “archived”, where it is converted to the new format anyway, but we lose all of our members.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bummer.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, it’s not just One Million Strong. IreGyre’s advocacy group is in the same boat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

we have 6,800+ members and have not been given the upgrade option so we are very likely going to be zeroed out when it is involuntarily archived and converted. Zero members. I will have a doozy of a time trying to get it built back up<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alas, it comes with the territory.\u00c2\u00a0 Facebook’s a very challenging place to do political activism.\u00c2\u00a0 Their recent deletion of Chinese blogger Michael Anti’s account<\/a> is just one a long line<\/a> of unfriendly actions. Back in 2008, Facebook suspended the accounts of quite a few One Million Strong group members — including me<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Since then they’ve been steadily taking away functionality from groups.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s almost like they don’t want us talking to each other.<\/p>\n

But the 2008 election was largely won on social networks, so Facebook’s too important to overlook.\u00c2\u00a0 The conservative For America page appears to have taken the early organizing lead<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 One Million Strong for Barack’s just starting to crank up a new Facebook Page, It Begins With Us<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It only has about 1100 fans so far so it would be a big disappointment if all the group’s members disappear.<\/p>\n

\"Barack<\/a>It’s kind of weird when you think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark and Barack certainly seem to “like” each other. Last month Mark even put on a tie and jacket when Barack dropped at the Facebook Town Hall.\u00c2\u00a0 Now his company’s on the verge of “archiving” the biggest grassroots group of Obama supporters. What’s with that?<\/p>\n

Hopefully once things get escalated to the right level at Facebook, sanity will prevail and the group can move forward. We shall see…<\/p>\n

Image credit: by Kei Noguchi via flickr<\/a>, licensed under Creative Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Facebook announcing an “upgrade or die” policy for old-style groups, it’s a stressful time for One Million Strong for Barack.\u00c2\u00a0 As the Erratic Synapse writes in Facebook Stands Poised to Take Our Group of Over 980,000 Obama Supporters… Back to 0 on Daily Kos, Here’s the problem: our group may not be eligible for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,245,248,269],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook","tag-obama","tag-one-million-strong-for","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}