To Team 17, RE: Facebook

[jb.jones]

A little bit of consumer insight for marketing purposes. I'd be careful about trying to replace this forum with the facebook one (and get rid of this one). While facebook is definitely a viable way to generate product awareness in the general community, I personally am a bit hesitant about posting on the worms site to the extent I do here. I don't want all of my friends knowing that I'm a worms junkie, and receiving a status update every time I debate the banana bomb vs the holy hand grenade. I'm sure there may be a way to turn this off in facebook, but I (and many others) don't know how.

Thoughts anyone?

[Plasma]

Facebook isn't replacing the forum. Facebook is what they're using to easily spread info on the Worms games. Thats... that's it.
Aside from a few oppertunities for joke posts, of course.


Wait, you've only made 3 posts here since mid-last-year. Why are you so worried about it?

I don't want all of my friends knowing that I'm a worms junkie
Anyone else remember those days when people kept saying "Be yourself, don't try to look like someone you're not just to get more respect among peers"? What happened to those days, they were good...

[robowurmz]

Who cares if you like a videogame or not? Why do you have to hide it from your friends, it's not like an addiction or something that's very personal, it's just a game. A strategy game, no less.

[jb.jones]

Fair enough, it has nothing to do with friends... its more that I have a number of work colleagues on my Facebook and I don't want to be self censoring my topics to make sure they remain professional.

Plasma, one of the mods mentioned that the forums might disappear eventually in reference to Facebook.

[thomasp]

Plasma, one of the mods mentioned that the forums might disappear eventually in reference to Facebook.
That comment wasn't specifically in reference to Facebook, just that one day, between now and the end of the universe, this forum will disappear.

I am inclined to agree with you, jb.jones, I don't think this forum should be replaced with Facebook - for example it seems much harder to get tech support for the game on Facebook, and it wouldn't be the first place I'd go to ask for help on a game.

[AndrewTaylor]

I like that the forum is run 'in-house'. Handing it over to a third party with their own policies and so forth would come with significant trust issues. Team17 would have very little control over it and Facebook wouldn't care enough about Worms to make changes for them. (For example, Facebook has no word filter, wouldn't let us attach .wagame files, and so on.)

Of course, I think you could rig the forum to accept Facebook as a way of logging in, but I don't know of any pre-made way to add this to vB.

Do Facebook profiles come with OpenIDs? If not, they really should. It'd be a really useful feature.

[thomasp]

And also, Facebook doesn't have me and Andrew moderating it :p

[SupSuper]

And also, Facebook doesn't have me and Andrew moderating it :pAnd that was the last time anyone showed up on the forum... :p

[raffie]

Not that I would wanna discard u guys in any way, but you do bring up a point, Facebook doesn't need real moderation, since ppl there arent anonymous, and as proven by the OP, they will hold themselves back from posting idiocy :-/

[Plasma]

Unless someone decides to make an anonymous account, of course. Or if they just don't care about what their friends think. Heck, there'll always be people who've friends that approve of trolling.

Ah hell, just count alone the number of people who readily fling around insults in discussions on Facebook! From people with fully filled out profiles!

[Luther]

ts more that I have a number of work colleagues on my Facebook and I don't want to be self censoring my topics to make sure they remain professional.


What job could possibly make it unprofessional to like Worms?

[SupSuper]

What job could possibly make it unprofessional to like Worms?Maybe his friends are your competitors. :p