Some alumni would like to see what you guys think about some things. If you would answer them that would be awesome 
LINK Here: http://goo.gl/N2O5U2
Clicking on an anonymized link from an anonymous user (whose user name has dubious capitalization) with one post is not good net hygiene.
Alan,
His previous thread was deleted. It had the same link in it.
Seems the lesson wasnāt learned before.
Has anyone been brave enough to take the plunge yet?
Clicked on it, seemed like a normal survey from survey monkey, maybe my add blocker helped thoughā¦
I did. It looks normal. It is a survey monkey survey. Click at your own risk
On a hotel computer, so viruses arenāt my problemā¦ (does that make me a bad person? Probably) Just a normal SurveyMonkey link. Hotel computer didnāt have AdBlock either. Security certificate is valid, correct URL, etc. Why (s)he bothered anonymizing I donāt know, but it seems pretty legit.
The question is, what is the posterās purpose for collecting this data?
I think itās pretty clear they want to start some sort of social network thing.
What Iām wondering is why? Didnāt the people behind āYopYipā already try to do that?
Yes. I donāt think itās a good idea, CD is already awesome for communications/networking. What makes a social network great isnāt how itās laid out, or what buttons it has, but what people actually use the site.
Completely agree. I donāt want to see FRC be bogged down by a multitude of websites that all effectively do the same thing. What else do we need besides for whatās already on CD?
To be honest, I donāt think itās a bad idea. Iāve had some trouble connecting with people Iāve met at events; a social network like Facebook for FIRST (FIRSTbook? Facebots? FIRSTbots?), perhaps with a āsearch for members by team numberā function, could be really cool. And I realize that CD has a team number search, but itās less a social network and more a forum.
Facebook for FIRST already exists. Itās called Facebook
Calm down everyoneā¦lol We are seriously just a group of Alumni from teams that want to try to make FIRST better in some way. We wanted to get some feedback, there is nothing wrong with that.
I think it is funny how some people think it is spam because of course, CD gets a lot of spam alreadyā¦
Itās also quite intimidating for a lot of students. The large amount of knowledge and large amount of technical discussions can frighten off otherwise invested students. I keep on trying to tell my teammates that we donāt bite on Chiefā¦
Deanās Homework. Between that, CD, and social media, enough is enough.
Thanks so much. Thatās an awesome site I hope starts to take off.