Gadfly goes modern!

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Good Gadfly followers:

Gadfly “goes modern” as the ubiquitous Kathy Fox has already announced to the world!

Gadfly is now on Facebook: search @thebethlehemgadfly

If you are a Facebooker, I hope that you will follow Gadfly and perform all the good Facebook actions like liking/sharing/commenting/inviting your friends, and so forth.

Particularly sharing and inviting your Facebook friends.

Gadfly is taking this step especially because of the upcoming election.

He would like to reach even more people.

We need the best possible City Council members we can get.

We have that “Candidates for election” thread on Gadfly designed to help voters get several steps beyond yard sign and soundbite level of knowledge.

Responses to a 5th prompt should appear tomorrow.

We just don’t get much in the way of newspaper coverage anymore. Sigh. It’s hard to get much in the way of depth on the candidates.

And thus voting — the essence of democracy — can be a hollow exercise.

Ugh.

So Gadfly is trying — with good cooperation from the candidates — to elevate the level of information, if only modestly.

So please help the project by alerting your Facebook friends to follow, calling especial attention to the “Candidates for election” thread: https://thebethlehemgadfly.com/category/candidates-for-election/

Tip o’ the hat and wave o’ the wings to Carol “the provocateur” Burns for nudging and mentoring.

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Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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3 thoughts on “Gadfly goes modern!”

  1. I have been called many things but never the “P” word (other “P” words – pest, poker, prodder, etc.), but really the pleasure has been all mine!

    Carol

    On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:47 PM The Bethlehem Gadfly wrote:

    > The Bethlehem Gadfly posted: “Good Gadfly followers: Gadfly “goes modern” > as the ubiquitous Kathy Fox has already announced to the world! Gadfly is > now on Facebook: search @thebethlehemgadfly If you are a Facebooker, I hope > that you will follow Gadfly and perform all the good Faceb” >

  2. Facebook started as a useful campus app that only allowed people to look at their own campus. When it went public, all thought of privacy was dumped. Popular as it is, Facebook is just a huge scam to sell targeted advertising. We would be better off if it didn’t exist at all.

  3. To Peter C.: while I support your philosophical argument about the existence of the company, it remains the single best place to engage a majority of voting adults. Unlike the web in general and WordPress in particular (sorry Gadfly, I don’t care for the WordPress user interface), Facebook offers a single user interface and the place where people can expect to see photos of their grandchildren. In fact, my granting organization has begun to mandate the use of social media advertising in an application as a component of receiving our help. So while I dislike Facebook a LOT, I swallow my feelings and use it. Good work, Ms. Burns. And Carol, please show Gadfly how Lehigh Valley with Love crossposts from their WordPress account to Facebook!

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