'Classic FM-ification'

[Don Petter]

Thanks for the explanation, ff. I didn't think it could be that simple!

[EdgeleyRob]

What, exactly, is the point of the R3 Facebook page?

Or indeed ANY facebook page.

[teamsaint]

Or indeed ANY facebook page.

distraction.
from serious issues.
like the quality of public services.
or the latest government lie.
That is the point.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Or indeed ANY facebook page.

Well, it all depends on how one manages it. Unmediated it can be just a torrent of inconsequential and plainly silly witterings (which is one of the reasons I now no longer use the Twitter) but with judicious choices it can open up areas of fascinating connections. For example my own Facebook page has links to certain authors (that's my business) and a number of music related pages (the Peter Warlock page for example which shows photographs and essays not readily available in a casual internet search). Through it I have made re-connections with old chums long thought lost on the other side of the world.
On balance I'd say it was a PLUS.
(And one gains an interesting insight into the R3 world as presented to what RW believes is the "new" market. Unfortunately the "new" market seems little interested and a lot of responses from posters could be classed as "questioning". The latest (a Czech speaker) takes Katie Dereham to task for pronouncing "Stabat" of Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" as "Shtabbat". It's Latin, he says, and even in Czech it's not pronounced "Shtabbat".)

[Word]

I could just about be convinced that there is some value to Twitter, mainly due to the immediacy of the information it conveys, but I fail to see any redeeming features in Facebook or why anyone would think it representative of the "new market" Radio 3 allegedly seeks; it's nothing but flypaper for the technically naïve.

[James Wonnacott]

What, exactly, is the point of the R3 Facebook page?

What, exactly, is the point of Facebook? (Same goes for Twitter)

[hmvman]

Well, it all depends on how one manages it. Unmediated it can be just a torrent of inconsequential and plainly silly witterings (which is one of the reasons I now no longer use the Twitter) but with judicious choices it can open up areas of fascinating connections. For example my own Facebook page has links to certain authors (that's my business) and a number of music related pages (the Peter Warlock page for example which shows photographs and essays not readily available in a casual internet search). Through it I have made re-connections with old chums long thought lost on the other side of the world.
On balance I'd say it was a PLUS.

I would agree that on balance it's a 'plus'. I find it a useful and often entertaining way of sharing news, photos etc with friends and family. The pages relating to interest-groups can also work quite well for sharing information and news. I do contribute to the R3 page from time to time and I admit that I sometimes join in with what may be described as the 'wittering'. I feel it's important to involve myself with the Facebook page because the BBC cited this and Twitter as being the way for listeners to interact with producers when the messageboards closed. At least on Facebook some of the producers do enter into discussions with posters which is more than they did on the boards. Having said that, what they write is not necessarily that enlightening: I had a response to one of my postings the other day from a 'senior producer' that was almost incomprehensible!

B-o-D, your page sounds very interesting. Do I have to be a 'friend' to access it?

[kernelbogey]

What, exactly, is the point of Facebook?[...]

It seems to be a means for Zuckerberg and friends to have created a kind of 'world domination' and possibly an enormous amount of money. I won't join, partly because of what I've learned about its potential for gathering and storing information about me with the intention of monetising that information, by selling my interests in music, politics, rodent-eating-snakes, holidays, books and films (I made one of those up). Call me paranoid, but I think the same of Google though it's hard to avoid using it.

[Norfolk Born]

Well, it all depends on how one manages it. Unmediated it can be just a torrent of inconsequential and plainly silly witterings (which is one of the reasons I now no longer use the Twitter) but with judicious choices it can open up areas of fascinating connections. For example my own Facebook page has links to certain authors (that's my business) and a number of music related pages (the Peter Warlock page for example which shows photographs and essays not readily available in a casual internet search). Through it I have made re-connections with old chums long thought lost on the other side of the world.
On balance I'd say it was a PLUS.
(And one gains an interesting insight into the R3 world as presented to what RW believes is the "new" market. Unfortunately the "new" market seems little interested and a lot of responses from posters could be classed as "questioning". The latest (a Czech speaker) takes Katie Dereham to task for pronouncing "Stabat" of Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" as "Shtabbat". It's Latin, he says, and even in Czech it's not pronounced "Shtabbat".)

That lets Katie Derham off the hook, at least.

[Norfolk Born]

Here's a big clue as to what we are being force-fed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_FM_(UK)

The relevant line being halfway down the History paragraph: "The station took as its model New York's WNYC and WGMS in Washington, D.C., with their more populist mix of talk, light classical music, new artists and crossover classical records

It's better than 216 hours of unrelieved Schubert.

[old khayyam]

It's better than 216 hours of unrelieved Schubert.

Normally, i'd say anything is better than 216 hours of unrelieved Schubert..

[Norfolk Born]

..or indeed of any other composer. In case RW has forgotten, the second 'B' in 'BBC' stands for Broadcasting, which this clearly isn't.

[old khayyam]

..or indeed of any other composer. In case RW has forgotten, the second 'B' in 'BBC' stands for Broadcasting, which this clearly isn't.

and the first 'B' stands for British..

[vinteuil]

and the first 'B' stands for British..

... and what, pray, would you like any implications of that term to embrace?

[old khayyam]

... and what, pray, would you like any implications of that term to embrace?

The answer to that hardly needs to be said,
for it lies in the original context of this thread..