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I might also have reasons for not wanting to buy The Times - I don't see the difference. Neither do web pages actively push updates (to those who have chosen to receive them).
 
I view companies that use facetwit as their primary customer service channel in much the same way as those whose business email is @hotmail or @talktalk or similar. Rather unprofessional. If there's a choice I'll look for alternatives.
 
Pushing updates can be done via email or text, preferably the former. RSS seems to have died.

I don't know of any plans to only update non legal information via The Times, do you? A regularly updated web page is going to be far quicker, I should have thought, if you mean the print edition of The Times. As for legal announcements, I totally agree with you, it is egregious that that should be mandated as the only channel. Nobody is compelling anyone else to make announcements only on Facebook, it is a totally different issue.

I don't see there is any argument, really. Given the greater access to the www, versus Facebook, the only reason for choosing the latter is to try to appear "trendy". I am sure that is something that appeals to you? :roflmao:
 
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Rumour has it that in the recent BA fiasco, staff were desperately using their mobiles to view the BBC News channel to find out what was going on.
 
Mike0001 said:
Rumour has it that in the recent BA fiasco, staff were desperately using their mobiles to view the BBC News channel to find out what was going on.
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:roflmao:
Bit like Sky News last night, simultaneously broadcasting BBC1 so that they could find out what May and Corbyn were saying.
 
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I agree with Trev, what is wrong with a web page, available to EVERYONE on the web? Pushing information through proprietary channels is not on. How would you feel about important information only available if you have an iThing? Say BA only announce their information via an iTunes only app? Or via M$ Edge?

Facebook web pages are lazy, incomplete and only accessible via a Facebook account, and many of us have reasons for not wanting one.
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I agree too. We once turned up an hour late for one of the kids' activities and were told indignantly that the time change was on facebook. Kids were too young for a facebook account at the time (not that most seem to take any notice of age restrictions) and I certainly wasn't getting one.
 
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With all the scam and phishing email scares that are continually doing the rounds...
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The ruddy IET (previously known as IEE) are getting rid of their email alias (where you can give people a short address - name 'at' iee 'dot' org) because the address is being blocked by various email providers as being spam. Beginning to sound like email isn't reliable - genuine email gets blocked, scam and phishing gets through. Back to snail mail.
 
af123 said:
I agree too. We once turned up an hour late for one of the kids' activities and were told indignantly that the time change was on facebook. Kids were too young for a facebook account at the time (not that most seem to take any notice of age restrictions) and I certainly wasn't getting one.
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That's rather unreasonable, unless you've been previously told that that's how info will be disseminated.
 
My wife and daughter met at a sports centre the other night to go swimming. There was no information on the web to say the pool was booked. Pathetic.

Recently I turned up at the Royal Hallamshire for a blood test at 5:18pm, knowing that is a quiet time, no queues. It was even quieter, closed in fact. I searched the wall outside for any notice giving opening times, nothing. It used to close at 5:30, I usually get there for 5:15 but was delayed, consoling someone whose dog had been run over.

A staff member came out of a far door, she said they now close at 5:20. On getting home, I told my wife. She searched the RHH web site for blood but returned no hits. Apparently, you need to search for phlebotomy. How many would know that? She wrote to complain, but sod all will have been done.

Maybe the RHH tweeted the new times?
 
Watched a program the other night about Qantas flight from Heathrow to Sydney on an A380. Some person talked about ordinary vs business class (upstairs) and the latter being 8 times as expensive.

He said the ordinary fair barely made a profit, but that the business class fares effectively subsidized them.

Actually, it is all of us who subsidize the cheap fares and expensive business fares. Surely if some firm sends an employee business class, that is going to be passed on to their customers as higher prices?
 
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