Agreed, I (grudgingly) understood the value of fb during volunteer work. Most grassroots refugee support initiatives were run by non tech savvy people. They cre

Agreed, I (grudgingly) understood the value of fb during volunteer work. Most grassroots refugee support initiatives were run by non tech savvy people. They created Facebook groups to communicate with people who wanted to help. As there sometimes were right wing attacks against their work, they would not accept anyone into the group with an empty fb profile. They also used it for event planning, there are few alternatives to creating events on fb - meetup.com costs too much and does not have the same reach among volunteers. Similar dynamic with most local sports / dancing groups I know, a fb profile with some group memberships and likes serves as social proof.