Why Cortes Island does not need Facebook

Cortes Currents

English - August 21, 2023 10:58 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MB
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Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - While there are Facebook groups on Cortes Island, they have largely been marginalized by a wiki style community bulletin board. The Tideline is not a place for personal webpages or a typical news website, but for the past 20 years most of island’s population have used it to post notices, community announcements, reports and advertisements.
 Someone suggested that this may be a model for the rest of the country to emulate, now that Facebook has barred Canadian news outlets from using its pages.
 This prompted me to ask a few people at Lovefest for their opinion.
 Only one expressed a preference for Facebook.
 Most repondents prefer the Tideline, often in conjunction with other sources, for local news.