Facebook or Forum?

[Jennifer Allan Hagedorn]

It's been suggested to me by more than one person that we create a private ACRE group at Facebook to facilitate discussions within our community. Not to replace this Forum necessarily, but to provide a more real-time platform to chat.

I have mixed emotions about it - I definitely see the benefits, as well as a few disadvantages, not the least of which is FB's annoying habit of changing the game every other day and making us relearn the rules. I'm also concerned about losing great content within the archives of the FB system.

On the other hand... I'd rather LOSE great content than never create it at all, so if hanging out on FB would be an appropriate vehicle to generate lively discussions, I'm totally open to it.

Thoughts? Would YOU be more (or less) likely to participate in ACRE-related discussions if they were on the Facebook platform?