This question came up the other day, and believe me, I get it, but to use an old expression, our position is that "you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater."
Some further explanation...
We first crossed swords with Facebook 8 years ago when we challenged them in a national campaign as a result of their failure to take down and control thousands of pedophiles who were actively using Facebook to trade in the criminal image and video content. That is still a problem today.
So, our experience with Facebook (and social media, at large) is a love/hate thing. We relish in the spirit of American ingenuity and free enterprise, but we came to understand a long time ago that from the time of Cain and Abel to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, there is a dark side to human nature, especially when it involves fame and power.
Fast-forward to 2020, and most of us now clearly realize the very disturbing part they have played in this still very fouled 2020 Election. And we all know that Facebook is not alone in this regard.
But there is no escaping the fact that 95% of us have Facebook accounts, whether active or not. And nationally, a typical Facebook user has well over 220 Facebook "Friends." And even though most of us have some Facebook Friends who oppose our views and that we can barely tolerate, that nets out to a lot of other connections. And in the "one to many" world of social media, this matters for two big reasons -
First, because of CauseBOOK's official integration with Facebook, as a CauseBOOK user, you can instantly invite as few or as many of those Facebook Friends as you want into CauseBOOK. In a couple of clicks from within CauseBOOK, you are on Facebook's official and standard sharing tool, and you can send a CauseBOOK invitation to one of the dozens of those Friends in seconds. It's "one and done" simple. That's powerful, and it is unique to CauseBOOK.
Second, most of us are now aware of Facebook's throttling or outright censoring of Conservative Publishers... the very same Publishers whose content is baked-in and constantly updated on CauseBOOK. And once again, because of the CauseBOOK/Facebook integration, you can share that content any time you want. When you do that, you have selectively informed others about content they won't likely see on Facebook, and perhaps, more importantly, you have become a "force-multiplier" for Conservative Publishers who are being throttled and censored everywhere - on Facebook, Twitter, and in steered Google searches.
You see, in your hands, our integration with Facebook puts the "one to many" math and power of social media to work towards the goal of a fair and even-handed exchange of news and opinion.
So, the questions we pose to you in this thread are these -
Do you agree with the strategy, or is it just too cozy with Facebook for your taste?
If you do agree with the strategy, have you used our "Invite Facebook Friends to CauseBOOK" feature yet?
If not, can you tell me why not? Is it about time or your comfort level?
Do you plan to give it a go soon? Perhaps you have not used Facebook's "Sharer" tool much before, and a bit of coaching or a quick "how-to" video would help?
Chime in, please. There are no wrong answers, and we are counting on you to help guide us.
