In message , Martin
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:28:56 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 2013-11-27 18:42:11 +0000, Bill Grey said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-11-27 10:38:20 +0000, Dave Liquorice said:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:06:45 -0000, Bob Hobden wrote:

Considering the numbers that use them it must be me, what am I missing
with this Social Media?

IMHO an awful lot of mindless chatter. There might be the odd grain
of gold but the vast majority is just rubbish.

Is it really important that the rector has finished the Sunday
morning service? I guess it might be if he tweets quickly and the pub
is a few minutes walk from the church, you can get a drink in before
the rush. B-) But then the service will always end about the same
time so you don't need the tweet to know when the rush is going to
happen, you do need a mind though...

I thought the idea was to look at blogs. Some/most bloggers Tweet or
are on Facebook because social media is a very important part of
advertising and pr these days. But Twitter and Facebook aren't the sum
of what these garden enthusiasts or experts write about. For example,
the highly respected designer, Tom Hoblyn is on both but also has a
very good blog:
http://thomashoblyn.com/about/blog

You don't have to be on social media sites to read blogs.
--

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

A Club I belong to has a "closed group" on Facebook. This, at first
seemed to be a good idea, but then one member has decided to flood the
group with irrelevant nonsence and spoiled the group.

Bill

The 'admin' could put a stop to that. It happens on newsgroups, too and
then the only resort is a kill file. However, my purpose was to
suggest people found gardening blogs, possibly via Twitter or indeed
simply via typing' uk garden blogs' into Google. I am not recommending
that urglers join or devote themselves to either Twitter or Facebook
but for some reason those now seem to have become the focus of
discussion, rather than blogs which might bring something of interest
to this group.

Nor are you recommending that everybody here reads blogs.

It's too late to find out what made Monty Don give up Twitter?
He's not alone according to the DT. Even Stephen Fry who was an ardent
supporter initially has left.
--
bert