While I agree with the majority of your post, you've kind of missed threegee's point on one key aspect in another thread. A lot went on to make that Facebook group the success it was. Sian, Myself and several others have been doing press interviews all week to give it exposure following a press release from this site and several of it's members calling in favours. Even with 1500 votes we still had a massive task convincing firstly the event organisers and then several groups within both councils who were raising objections at every possible point in the process even up to the very last minute. But like 3g said, by working with these bodies and addressing their concerns we got a result! and what a great affect it has had on the town as a result. I couldn't be more thrilled. Couldn't agree more, it's still worth riding this fad out because it's a big fad. Facebook is an altogether different behemoth and one I suspect that will be around for a lot longer (unless of course ITV or Murdoch decide to buy it) but like I say one that will also never be able to cater for specific subjects. It is impossible to be all things to all people and they realise that. Yes absolutely! It's fantastic to see everybody in the town starting to sit up and take responsibility themselves. I've also had a number of discussions with councillors today who are keen to embrace it and want to work with the site on future issues so it's all looking very promising indeed. I'm also nearly finished with some of the new features that will really open up the site to collaboration and make content submission much easier. Yeah that's the main point right there, it's about convincing these casual net users. Stick around mercuryg this is great discussion.