Monday, July 14, 2014

Re: [californiadisasters] Admin Read: Hello, Anybody Here?



Well, I'm out here. I mostly lurk. I live way out here in Alabama where our only disasters are tornados which drive us underground several times a year. But I have lived for many years in SoCal and still have kids and their families in Escondido and Modesto. I have lived through many earthquakes. I read all your stuff and especially like the traffic when disasters are occurring. I can identify with most of the places that are having problems and can let my kids know when something may affect them.
 
So, stay alive on email! I am not crazy about Facebook or Twitter because it is hard to transfer large amounts of information on them.
 
Best regards,
 
Bill
 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 8:40 PM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Admin Read: Hello, Anybody Here?
 
 

Achtung Gruppe!

Well, here we are at California Disasters on Yahoo Groups, two monthsinto our 8th year of existence. When I started this group which came about two years after I first joined Yahoo Groups which was also my first ever entry into the world of social networking websites, there were a host of other popular Yahoo Groups which overlapped into certain sections of California Disaster's areas of interest and vice versa.

However, CD was its own entity and not intended to compete with any of them. Such other popular public safety and scanner monitoring groups included SoCalFire, SoCalScan, CaliforniaOnlineScanning, NorCalFire, BayScan, et al.

As time passed we have watched as Yahoo Groups' market share has diminished due to technological innovations, new market options, people's changing habits, and Yahoo's own mistakes.

The aforementioned groups are either dead silent or merely periodically chirp. Even California Disasters is mostly about me posting stuff which was always the case to some degree but never more so than now as fewer and fewer of you contribute.

In the meantime, other options I initially eschewed such as Twitter and Facebook and Reddit have undermined Yahoo Group's marketshare and as part of the trend I moved California Disasters into those social networks where California Disasters continues to thrive with more and more members joining all the time.

This leads me to wonder how many of you are actually still here and monitoring my posts? What are your thoughts on all of this? Is it time to shut this down and focus CD on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit or are enough of you still following there and deriving some sort of benefit to keep CD going on its original social network?

Even if you do not wish to chime in with an opinion I'd still like to take a sort of roll call and see who is still here so please check in with even a simple one-word response!

Sincerely,

Kim Patrick Noyes
Founder ~ California Disasters


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