QBFHS now has a Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/qualicumbeachfamilyhistorysociety/
Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with your family and friends online. Originally designed for college students, Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University. By 2006, anyone over the age of thirteen with a valid email address could join Facebook. Today, Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with more than one billion users worldwide.
Have you ever wondered why people like using Facebook? After all, there are already a lot of other ways to communicate online, such as email, instant messaging, and so on. What makes Facebook unique is the ability to connect and share with a lot of people at the same time.
Having our own Facebook page will allow us to send any messages about QBFHS on our own terms. We can connect with other genealogists, publish information about upcoming events and essentially be the driving force behind messages about our Society.
There are many other reasons for joining Facebook and not everyone will want to join, but that is a personal choice. QBFHS having a presence on Facebook can only increase our exposure to the rest of the world.
Did you know that there are over ten thousand genealogy groups on Facebook that might help you with your research? There are over a thousand Canadian genealogy Facebook pages alone.
Go ahead and take the plunge, join Facebook and like QBFHS. To “like” our Facebook page, simply go to https://www.facebook.com/qualicumbeachfamilyhistorysociety/ and “like” a post. Once you do that, all posts from QBFHS will be visible in your Facebook newsfeed.
Once you join Facebook you will have a new tool in your genealogy toolbox to help you with research.
Stay tuned for more tips on how Facebook can be useful for both you and QBFHS.