On 2015-10-09 15:45:05 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"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.

Bob, you can also state on Fb that you don't "want to see any more
posts like this", so if you're bored with the 'cute' stuff (I know
*precisely* what you mean by that) you can click on that. I haven't
investigated whether or not that cuts off peoples' posts you do want to
see but will do so. Otoh, I simply click past them, just as I would on
here if someone I don't want to read every time is posting things I'm
not interested in.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon