In article ,
says...
More to
the point and back to the ORIGINAL point, you can look at
gardening//horticultural/design/landscaping blogs, without going near
Twitter or Facebook. So - why do we do so little of that, I wonder?

That's an unfounded assumption of your own. Mind you don't fall
off that soapbox.

Janet.

I'm 62 and have been using Facebook for about 3 years. Prior to that I was totally dismissive about it! I frequent the various speciality plant groups and find the discussions quite interesting, which is why I stay. They can be pictorially quite intense - rather helpful for id'ing obscure plants. FB also helps me keep in more immediate touch with friends from other parts of the world, which is also useful. Very occasionally, I'm guilty of a mindless or utterly inconsequential comment on my own page, but no-one has to read that or respond to it. As for Twitter, I'm afraid I simply cannot get on with it. I find the truncated comments all too annoying so I hardly ever look in nowadays. You get what you want from social 'meeja' and if you look for tripe, you'll find plenty. I don't, so I hardly ever see it.

On 30/11/2013 00:30, Dave Poole wrote:
I'm 62 and have been using Facebook for about 3 years. Prior to that
I was totally dismissive about it! I frequent the various speciality
plant groups and find the discussions quite interesting, which is why
I stay. They can be pictorially quite intense - rather helpful for
id'ing obscure plants. FB also helps me keep in more immediate touch
with friends from other parts of the world, which is also useful.
Very occasionally, I'm guilty of a mindless or utterly
inconsequential comment on my own page, but no-one has to read that
or respond to it. As for Twitter, I'm afraid I simply cannot get on
with it. I find the truncated comments all too annoying so I hardly
ever look in nowadays. You get what you want from social 'meeja' and
if you look for tripe, you'll find plenty. I don't, so I hardly ever
see it.


I have to say I prefer Google+ to FB, if only because the "circles"
concept seems more logical.

On 30/11/2013 00:30, Dave Poole wrote:
I'm 62 and have been using Facebook for about 3 years. Prior to that
I was totally dismissive about it! I frequent the various speciality
plant groups and find the discussions quite interesting, which is why
I stay. They can be pictorially quite intense - rather helpful for
id'ing obscure plants. FB also helps me keep in more immediate touch
with friends from other parts of the world, which is also useful.
Very occasionally, I'm guilty of a mindless or utterly
inconsequential comment on my own page, but no-one has to read that
or respond to it. As for Twitter, I'm afraid I simply cannot get on
with it. I find the truncated comments all too annoying so I hardly
ever look in nowadays. You get what you want from social 'meeja' and
if you look for tripe, you'll find plenty. I don't, so I hardly ever
see it.


I have to say I prefer Google+ to FB, if only because the "circles"
concept seems more logical.

On 29/11/2013 19:20, sacha wrote:
Twitter can - in urg's terms - merely be a point of contact, a signpost,
Nobody is compelled to post to Twitter, you can just read it and follow
links that interest you. And indeed, nobody is suggesting it's a
substitute for informed debate/discussion. All of us that use it know
that is not the case! In urg use terms, I'd probably describe it as an
'alert' to what is available. As always, your choice.

Spot on Sacha... BTW, what is your Twitter account - or are you
incognito?

You can find me (unsurprisingly) @wendytinley or @TNESheffield, one
personal and one business.

My best experience of late was on Friday evening when Twitter was full
of information about Comet Ison (Ison - Isoff - Ison and Isoff again)
after perihelion.

--
Wendy Tinley
SE Sheffield
4 miles west of junction 30 M1

On 2013-12-02 14:12:11 +0000, Wendy Tinley said:

On 29/11/2013 19:20, sacha wrote:
Twitter can - in urg's terms - merely be a point of contact, a signpost,
Nobody is compelled to post to Twitter, you can just read it and follow
links that interest you. And indeed, nobody is suggesting it's a
substitute for informed debate/discussion. All of us that use it know
that is not the case! In urg use terms, I'd probably describe it as an
'alert' to what is available. As always, your choice.

Spot on Sacha... BTW, what is your Twitter account - or are you incognito?

You can find me (unsurprisingly) @wendytinley or @TNESheffield, one
personal and one business.

My best experience of late was on Friday evening when Twitter was full
of information about Comet Ison (Ison - Isoff - Ison and Isoff again)
after perihelion.

The Nursery account on Twitter is https://twitter.com/hillhousenursry
and on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/HillHouseNursery
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk