New site / facebook

Larks

Came across this site....looks like a facebook for refs...

START DEVELOP FINISH - An innovative tool to help centralize criteria and promote Consistency for all levels of officiating.

Anyone try it yet?

Which brings me to...do you facebook?

My guess is the HS guys do, the college guys dont. True assumption?

Adam

True for me. 😀

JRutledge

Larks wrote
Anyone try it yet?

Which brings me to...do you facebook?

My guess is the HS guys do, the college guys dont. True assumption?

I know several D1 officials that have a Facebook page. A few happen to be friends of mine. They hardly ever talk about their officiating or show pictures of their games. And I can understand this fact with all the exposure they get and anything they say can and will be used against them.

Peace

mbyron

Larks wrote
My guess is the HS guys do, the college guys dont. True assumption?

My guess is: the guys who are or have teenagers do.

Welpe

I use Facebook but then I'm a lowly sub-varsity official. 😉

If anybody wants to add me as a friend, send me a PM.

M&M Guy

mbyron wrote
My guess is: the guys who are or have teenagers do.

True for me.

(The "have" part, not the "are" part.) 😀

IowaMike

Kids away at college is what got me on Facebook a few years ago. Easy way to keep in touch, and now I have also connected with old military buddies, people from high school etc. I'm not obsessed with it but it has its positive uses. I have friends who would never sign up on it or use it; of course there are still people who don't use email. I believe the fact that McCain didn't know how to use it came up in the last election. We had a local alderman in my town who was finally forced by the city to learn how to use his email account recently. To each his own I guess.

DLH17

I'm a FaceBooker. Great way to keep up with who my teenager socializes with. Also a great central place to post family pix for my family/friends that live out of town that we don't get to see in person very often.

Have re-kindled some old high school and college friendships, as well.

Back In The Saddle

Hi, I'm BITS and I'm a Facebook addict.

I've been on FB for a few years now and have enjoyed catching up with old friends from high school, college, previous jobs and even some of my officiating buddies. But, I don't usually post much about my officiating exploits, just like I don't post much about work. It's just safer not to.

Adam

Back In The Saddle wrote
Hi, I'm BITS and I'm a Facebook addict.

I've been on FB for a few years now and have enjoyed catching up with old friends from high school, college, previous jobs and even some of my officiating buddies. But, I don't usually post much about my officiating exploits, just like I don't post much about work. It's just safer not to.

Me too. All but the "I'm BITS" portion of course.

JRutledge

I am going to have to have a new category for my Officiating.come friends. 😀

Peace

grunewar

Back In The Saddle wrote
I've been on FB for a few years now and have enjoyed catching up with old friends from high school, college, previous jobs and even some of my officiating buddies. But, I don't usually post much about my officiating exploits, just like I don't post much about work. It's just safer not to.

IowaMike wrote
Kids away at college is what got me on Facebook a few years ago. Easy way to keep in touch, and now I have also connected with old military buddies, people from high school etc. I'm not obsessed with it but it has its positive uses.

JRutledge wrote
They hardly ever talk about their officiating or show pictures of their games

.+1

I'm more a voyeur than a poster. I'm not one that posts everything I do...... and, the only TWEETING I do is on the court! 😉

Back In The Saddle

grunewar wrote
I'm more a voyeur than a poster. I'm not one that posts everything I do...... and, the only TWEETING I do is on the court! 😉

I love Facebook, but tweeting is for the birds. 😉

Scuba_ref

At our last association meeting we were specifically warned against posting any game/officiating references on Book Face (as Dwight refers to it in the Office). The story was brought up about a local official (by that local official) who mentioned good game (one that he had officiated) to a friend (child played in the game) on facebook. Someone else connected to that facebook user who was a fan for the losing team got ahold of that and made a big deal about it.

Sorry about the parenthesis - I had a few extra lying around and need to use them before their expiration date!<O:p</O:p

Bishopcolle

Back In The Saddle wrote
I love Facebook, but tweeting is for the birds. 😉

One very nice advantage of tweeting is: If you happen to follow an authority or respected leader of a field/industry, they will often show links to some very good reading or articles for study. Saves lots of time and really helps one (me, at least,) improve without a lot of time searching for the golden nuggets the tweet provides....just a thought.....

biggravy

I do Facebook. I've always been real big on networking. Felt that I never know where someone I knew would be able to help me out or vice versa. I'm not real big on how some people just add all kinds of people for the sake of adding them. I have about 600 friends on there and can honestly say I know all of them from some point in real life.

Judtech

Snaqwells wrote
Me too. All but the "I'm BITS" portion of course.

I"m with them. Will there be donuts and coffee at the FB Anon Meeting?

bainsey

biggravy wrote
I'm not real big on how some people just add all kinds of people for the sake of adding them.

Agreed. My policy is that I never add somebody unless I've met them in person, and I can remember them! (It makes for awkward moments when you get that vague friend request, but I believe it's right.)

About 15-20 of my FB friends are also officials. Everyone is pretty cautious about posting game stuff. I've seen one friend mention a forthcoming game, but never have I seen anyone comment about a game. That's just asking for trouble.

IowaMike

bainsey wrote
Agreed. My policy is that I never add somebody unless I've met them in person, and I can remember them! (It makes for awkward moments when you get that vague friend request, but I believe it's right.)

About 15-20 of my FB friends are also officials. Everyone is pretty cautious about posting game stuff. I've seen one friend mention a forthcoming game, but never have I seen anyone comment about a game. That's just asking for trouble.

I don't post about specific games; I have officiating friends on FB and I may mention that I am working on a certain night but I never specify where nor do I make any comments about the game I have worked. You just never know who might see it or how they may take it. Of course, it's best to be careful about anything you post on a public forum. One moment of stupidity can come back to haunt you down the road.

ToolinFool

It's been said that the largest new group to start using Facebook is the 40-60 year olds. I'm one of those. I made a sugestion to my BB Officials group here is So. Cal. that we should have a group site for our unit. We could share videos and game questions and requests. It could be a great tool for the newbies who have lots of questions. Like useing the Arbitor for instance.