It doesn’t take long to setup and you can generate feedback quite quickly. Say even if you managed to get 10 people to respond via facebook, isn’t it worth doing considering you wouldn’t have been able to reach them otherwise? And if you read the comments closely you’ll realize that the comments mostly come from those who are over 30 years old. So who’s to say only under 30s use facebook?

I did a quick poll on twitter to see if over 30s use facebook and a fair amount of people do use it along with their parents who are about 60 years old. I myself have conducted several interviews with citizens over 30s and alot of them use facebook as well.

So I personally feel, the verdicts not out just yet. So we should embrace its possibility for further engagement and not ignore it. Because by ignoring it, opportunity is lost and by trying, you would have lost nothing and possibly gained a few fans.

http://cmis.coventry.gov.uk/CMISWebPublic/Binary.ashx?Document=13151

Less than 20% of those who responded to the consultation were under 30.

In the 2001 Census, 40% of the population of Coventry was under 30.

If Facebook was a significant factor in people being part of the 834 responses, wouldn’t the under-30 group be more likely to be above 40% (i.e. weighted towards the younger users of Facebook), rather than the 20%, half of what the actual population of the city should be?

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