Board Thread:Season 8 - Korea/@comment-4062486-20130627062453/@comment-4062486-20130630002105

Thank you so much all of you who have already applied!! I am getting more and more excited for the season already because others have shown so much interest for it. I already have around 10 or so applications (which is simply amazing for the first few days) and I hope to keep receiving applications :D

As for Facebook, there are several reasons I personally think it should be a requirement for the users of this franchise:

1. It is the best way to interact. On Facebook there is the possibility to have group chats. For example, we have had conversations for tribes, for voted off jury members (also known as the Ponderosa conversation) etc. Facebook offers a much easier way to connect with people than e-mail and Wikia do.

2. Facebook offers a really good possibility to share files with both privately and with  more than one person as well. Wikia only enables the user to share the file publicly. So yeah, if you sent me your vote on Wikia, everybody would see it and it could and probably would ruin your chances in this game. Whereas on Facebook you can share it privately.

3. People tend to be online on Facebook much more often than they check their e-mail. Let's say you have a question for any of the mods of this season. If you sent it to us via e-mail, you would get an answer probably in about a few hours or more, whereas on Facebook you could receive it pretty much instantly.

4. Facebook is in my opinion also a much better way to get a more personal connection with the contestants than e-mail is. Since it allows people to have a profile where they can put information about them and pictures etc, you get more of a sense what kind of a person they are. And the personal connections you develop with the contestants is definitely one of the good sides of modding.

5. Facebook is also a good way to avoid sockpoppets. For example, it is much easier to tell on Facebook if the contestant is a fake than on e-mail or Wikia. One of the noticeable things about the sockpoppet Kaaitlyn was for example that she was pretty much only on Wikia. She did not have a Facebook account and was barely online, which did already make me a bit suspicious of her when the season was going on.