Cron Job offer explained

Previous entry,  seems to cause a bit of confusion. Some people seem to think that we are running away with your data and you are now completely at our mercy. Nonsense. 

First, cron job is a fancy word for "scheduled task", a process that are running in a predefined period of time, over and over again.  In JomSocial, why we need it and how to set it up yourself is clearly described in our documentation page, http://www.jomsocial.com/docs/Cron_Setup. Setting up this scheduled process is easy and would take less than a minute. All you have to do is visit http://yoursite.com?option=com_community&task=cron . No data is being exposed, no call-back to our server, and we don't even know you're running it. 

The scheduled task, simply open this url, without you having to keep on loading it in your browser.

However, some of our non-technical administrator, particularly those who are new to setting up websites, might not be very familiar with this 'cron' concept.

So, what we do is simple. We can call this url for you, at no cost, IF you want us to. It cost almost nothing to run, but it save some of you the trouble of setting it up. No data of any sort is transferred to our site. Of course, we encourage you to set it up yourself, but if you want, we can call the url for you. It is a free, completely optional service.