Freehold on Facebook

[BrianSullivan]

I have mentioned before that many of our readers and participants are big facebook fans. It is easy to understand why. With the growth of facebook, there has naturally been a rise in Freehold based pages and groups on that site. This thread will be a continual reference point for those who are on facebook and are looking for groups and pages of local interest. What I have compiled here is just a sampling of what can be found and more will be added as they are found.

Friends of the American Hotel

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260387833382&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=20760834962

Court Jester

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260387833382&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=60696675757


I love the Freehold Public Library

www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/group.php?gid=37892866177

Ecumenical Cafe, Freehold NJ
www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/group.php?gid=70425750890

We Love "The Boro," Freehold Borough, New Jersey
www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/group.php?gid=21269956681

Freehold Borough First Aid Squad
www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/group.php?gid=2375306419

DowntownFreehold.


www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/pages/DowntownFreeholdcom/256859693478?ref=mf



Freehold, NJ (this one is newer and got very big very quick)


www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/pages/Freehold-NJ/Freehold-NJ/199042115758



Freehold Spooktacular (this seasonal interest gained a lot of fans very quickly too)


www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1248068345#/pages/Freehold-Spooktacular/133259072449



Freehold Memorial Day Parade
www.facebook.com/pages/Freehold-Memorial-Day-Parade/421730610034

Freehold Learning Center PTO

www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&ref=profile&id=1248068345#/pages/Freehold-Learning-Center-PTO/151907643032

Park ave Bistro
www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&ref=profile&id=1248068345#/pages/Freehold-NJ/Park-Avenue-Bistro-Banquets-Lounge/113133346223?ref=sgm

Freehold Borough Republican Club( There was a Freehold Borough Democrat Club, but it has disappeared)
www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&ref=profile&id=1248068345#/pages/Freehold-Boro-Republican-CLub/109124284806

[lisas84]

Doesn't the Neighborhood Pride Committee have its own page too? I'm not on FB so maybe you can post that link as well! Thanks!

[Mike Rosseel]

Brian, I have been doing research on sites for the CIC that report on Freehold and to be honest, the facebook pages do the best job reporting on issues in a bi-partisan manner, excellent source of information. Especially, freehold,nj on facebook and neighborhood pride, but are extremly fair sources of information!

[BrianSullivan]

Lisa and Mike,

You both reminded me of one group I forgot to put here- The Freehold Voice on facebook. Of course we all know it is loaded with borough pride and is very non partisan. I don't utilize it as much as I should on facebook, but it has brought us a few new readers. Here it is...

Freehold Voice

www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/group.php?gid=54738786781

[BrianSullivan]

Freeholder Director Barbara J. McMorrow

www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/pages/Freeholder-Director-Barbara-J-McMorrow/51272053978

Senator Jennifer Beck

www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/pages/Jennifer-Beck/41602295780?ref=sgm


Freehold Boro HS alums


www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1401208117&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=2203120513

[BrianSullivan]

Speaking of facebook, here is an interesting articel for all of those who think they are onto something with a gazzilion facebook friends, think again.....

www.nypost.com/p/news/national/buddy_brain_drain_n03pXeF8wGS5EEfCEOtKoI

Buddy brain drainFacebook friend-ly fire

Facebook "friending" may fry your brain.

The social-networking site lets users rack up as many as 5,000 friends, but the mind cannot handle more than 150 relationships at one time, a new study has found.

Proponents of Twitter and Facebook say the technology helps people build larger, deeper social networks, but the truth, says Oxford University anthropologist Robin Dunbar, is that Web 2.0 can't win over Brain 1.0.

In the 1990s, through his studies of primates, Dunbar settled on the figure of 150, which he said is the largest social network the brain's neocortex, in even the most social of social butterflies, can handle.

Known as "Dunbar's Number," the figure has been the subject of much debate over the years, with many social scientists speculating that people may actually be able to maintain close to twice that many relationships.

Dunbar recently set out to determine whether Facebook and Twitter enable the mind to stretch and handle a great number of social connections.

The answer appears to be no, he told The Times of London.

"The interesting thing is that you can have 1,500 friends, but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world," Dunbar said.

He arrived at his number through studying social groupings in a variety of societies, from Neolithic villages to modern office environments.

The neocortex of the brain developed roughly 250,000 years ago during the Pleistocene era.

The 150 limit corresponds roughly to the size of a Neolithic farming village, as well as the size of a unit of the Roman army. In groups greater than 150, social cohesion begins to disintegrate, Dunbar said.

"People obviously like the kudos of having hundreds of friends, but the reality is that [their social network] is unlikely to be bigger than anyone else's," he said.

Dunbar is still conducting research into the social-networking sites, and expects to publish his final results later this year.

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Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/national/buddy_brain_drain_n03pXeF8wGS5EEfCEOtKoI#ixzz0digPJAdm

[lisas84]

While I believe that in real-life, physical settings, 150 people in one's orbit is a limit to recognition, i.e., "handling more than 150 relationships at a time," I'm not sure this theory can carry over to an internet social setting. I would believe that a growing cache of FB friends can actually help improve memory as facebook appears to be a setting/environment controlled by the user.

[BrianSullivan]

Here is another...

Casa Freehold

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54738786781#/group.php?v=info&ref=search&gid=9609523985