Participation in discussions on Facebook about the articles

The present section of the website has a facility for comments and discussion about the articles that are published here. The following is how to join this new feature, and how to use it.

These instructions have been written so that they shall be easy to follow, even for a person who does not already use Facebook. Habitual users of Facebook may find them excessively detailed, but this was unavoidable.

Get an account on Facebook. To join, you need to have an account on Facebook. If you do not already have it, visit www.facebook.com and go through the initialization routine.

To join our Facebook group. On your Facebook page, enter "Argument och fakta" in the search window at the top. One or more options may come up. Select the option where it says 'Group' after 'Argument och fakta', which probably is the first option. This will show our group's page for its external information, as well as a field with the text '+ Join group'. Click on it. Eventually there should be a confirmation that you have been accepted as a member of the group. Once this confirmation has arrived, you can start using the service.

To comment on an article in 'Liberal Views' that you are reading. The narrow right column at the top of the article often contains a link with the text comments . When it does, everything is ready for entering a comment on the article. Just click this link, and you will be taken to a Facebook post that is dedicated to the current article. Make your comments there. You will then receive notice of additional comments by others (or myself) that are made in connection with the same article.

To request information about upcoming comments about an article. Do as in the previous paragraph, but instead of making a comment, click on "..." at the top of the current post. Several options are shown; select "turn on comments". This is not necessary if you make or have made a comment yourself, and only if you have not made a comment but you are still interested in the comments of others.

Tp comment on, or to register your interest in an article in Liberal Views that does not already have a link for comments. Create a new post on our Facebook page which contains only one thing, namely the web link to the article in question. Make your comment or expression of interest on that post. I will then receive a message about this so I can respond to your comment, and I will also make sure that comments- links are introduced for the article in question.

Submit one of your own articles for comment and discussion. This applies for an article that has already been posted on another website. Do as in the previous point, provided that it applies to one or a few individual items per month, so as not to overload the other members of the group. If you have a collection of more articles that you want to promote in this way, please contact me.

To publish your own article in an appropriate way so that it can be included for comments and discussion with us. Liberal Views is happy to publish ideologically oriented articles by different authors if they are related to the area of interest of this website. Please send the text to me so we can see whether and how it can be posted. Such articles should preferably contain links to previous articles that you want to use to support your own perception, or articles that you object to, so that we have a more coherent debate.

To make your own posts directly on our Facebook page. This can be done but it is not supported. For example, no directory of such posts is created. I think there will be a better quality in the discussion if it is structured in the form of seriously written posts / articles in Liberal Views, along with comments and discussion where we react to these articles.

To present an article by another author that you think is particularly relevant for the discussion in Liberal Views. Proceed as described above for "to publish your own article", but feel free to supplement the Facebook post with a short explanation of why it is especially worthwhile to read and discuss the article in question.