"stuart noble" wrote

Broadback wrote:
Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
Sacha wrote:

Bob Hobden said:

"Emery Davis" wrote
stuart noble wrote:

I've been wondering the same thing. Sacha?

FB.


and Twitter.

Yes, I'm on both and have a personal page and a page for the Nursery.
There are many gardening groups on Fb, covering a wide range of
different types of gardening. I resisted Facebok and Twitter for a long
time but have learned rapidly that they are what you make of them and
that it's very easy to avoid those you don't wish to encounter. Groups
on Facebook can be closed, private groups or open to all.

I used Facebook for a few weeks and set up some groups but it never
really suited my needs so I gave it up. I much prefer Usenet because
it's all in one place as I am. Just on click and all my newsgroups and
emails are brought up to date. I suppose if I was mobile with portable
gadgets my preferences would be different.

Steve

Me, I do not trust them, they are, to my mind, very intrusive.

As Sacha says, they are what you allow them to be. Getting to that point is
a learning curve, and not always very intuitive, but I think it's worth
it...on balance....probably...


I joined Fb some years ago and hated it, could not see the purpose and ,as
you say, got inundated with "friend" requests from some strange people I did
not know (and, I suspect, have no wish to) Eventually, concerned about
security, I closed it down.

About a year ago my wife asked me to set her up on Fb as she wished to talk
with old friends and relatives, Fb seemed much better than I remember and as
she is strict with who she "friends" it's good so far. There are two or
three that just " share" stuff she considers rubbish, ( Share if you have a
daughter/son/cat/dog/wife /husband you love !!!?) goodness knows why, but
you have to live with that or un-friend them ( which you can do easily and
they are not notified either). Through her FB page we have made a
reconnection with an old friend we lost touch with some years ago which is
wonderful.

I myself then opened a Twitter account and, again, was strict with who I
followed restricting it to nurseries etc, and organisations I'm interested
in like RBG Kew and the Natural History Museum and very few people, Prof
Brian Cox being but one (no friends or relatives at all). In essence it's
like my own little Newsgroup although the restriction to 140 characters does
cause problems some times.

As Sacha says, you can post photos on both Fb and Twitter and we do.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK