On 2015-10-09 07:13:31 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"Emery Davis" wrote
stuart noble wrote:

I've been wondering the same thing. Sacha?

FB.


and Twitter.

I've joined two or three gardening groups on Facebook. There are many
and all cater to particular interests or general gardening interest.
Some have professionals as members and most have enthusiastic and very
knowledgeable gardeners, including some who open their gardens for the
NGS. I've also got a Facebook page for the Nursery and a Twitter
account for the same reason. I learned rapidly that Fb is what you
choose to make of it. You can have a closed group which only members
can read and groups which are moderated or groups which are open to the
whole world. Same goes for your own page. You can easily block people
you don't wish to associate with and delete posts you feel to be
inappropriate for whatever reason.

I was extremely wary to start with but frankly, you are as much master
of your own fate there as you are on any newsgroup.
--

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

On 09/10/15 11:08, Sacha wrote:
On 2015-10-09 07:13:31 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"Emery Davis" wrote
stuart noble wrote:

I've been wondering the same thing. Sacha?

FB.


and Twitter.

I've joined two or three gardening groups on Facebook. There are many
and all cater to particular interests or general gardening interest.
Some have professionals as members and most have enthusiastic and very
knowledgeable gardeners, including some who open their gardens for the
NGS. I've also got a Facebook page for the Nursery and a Twitter
account for the same reason. I learned rapidly that Fb is what you
choose to make of it. You can have a closed group which only members
can read and groups which are moderated or groups which are open to the
whole world. Same goes for your own page. You can easily block people
you don't wish to associate with and delete posts you feel to be
inappropriate for whatever reason.

I was extremely wary to start with but frankly, you are as much master
of your own fate there as you are on any newsgroup.

I hate f*c*book (you can choose the letters yourself!). I even miss out
on many photos of the grandchildren because I refuse to use it. It just
reminds me of an infectious disease.

It all started when I got an email from Facebook a couple of years ago
welcoming me to it. I couldn't understand why I'd got the email, as I
had no interest in it. AFAIR It seems an old friend had joined Facebook
and one of the email addresses he'd given them as a friend was mine. So
an account had been set up under my name. Several links were given in
the email, one apparently to delete the account. But I couldn't; I could
inactivate it (I think), but the only person who could delete it was my
friend (maybe by removing me as a "friend"?). I didn't bother trying
anything more. I just blocked anything from Facebook with my Win7
firewall and the modem/router firewall, so I have no idea if they ever
tried to get me to join up again.

And if you think they are safe and secure, try the following Google
searches:
1. "hack" and "facebook"
2. "hack" and "twitter"

and compare the number of results with "hack" and "usenet".

--

Jeff

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:08:04 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

I've joined two or three gardening groups on Facebook. There are many
and all cater to particular interests or general gardening interest.

I got a Facebook account principally to set up a special group for WW1
commemorations on behalf of my parish. I have gradually added other
stuff of more personal interest, so looked for groups relating to
gardening. The list was so large, I didn't know where to start and did
not have time to track down one or two which would suit me.

Do you have any recommendations for a 'starter' general UK gardening
FB group?

----

Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border
on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades.

On 2015-10-09 11:20:07 +0000, cotula said:

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:08:04 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

I've joined two or three gardening groups on Facebook. There are many
and all cater to particular interests or general gardening interest.

I got a Facebook account principally to set up a special group for WW1
commemorations on behalf of my parish. I have gradually added other
stuff of more personal interest, so looked for groups relating to
gardening. The list was so large, I didn't know where to start and did
not have time to track down one or two which would suit me.

Do you have any recommendations for a 'starter' general UK gardening
FB group?

----

Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border
on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades.

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

sacha wrote:

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!

Ha! Found you. Many thanks.

Bob Harvey

On 10/10/2015 05:14, Robert Harvey wrote:
sacha wrote:

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!

Ha! Found you. Many thanks.

Bob Harvey

After the posts here I have capitulated. I "made a friend" of my
daughter, that gave me loads of others. One of them, my step grandson
had scores of friends, how can one keep track, of be interested in that
many? anyway now I have to find how to get to gardening pages. so if you
do not see me here "Sigh of relief?" in future you will know I am lost
among the facebook pages!

On 2015-10-10 10:41:14 +0000, Broadback said:

On 10/10/2015 05:14, Robert Harvey wrote:
sacha wrote:

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!

Ha! Found you. Many thanks.

Bob Harvey

After the posts here I have capitulated. I "made a friend" of my
daughter, that gave me loads of others. One of them, my step grandson
had scores of friends, how can one keep track, of be interested in that
many? anyway now I have to find how to get to gardening pages. so if
you do not see me here "Sigh of relief?" in future you will know I am
lost among the facebook pages!

UK and Friends Gardening, Exotic Gardening UK, Hardy Tropicals
Gardening, UK Tropical Look Gardening are just a few.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 10/10/2015 12:43, Martin wrote:
I have floods of very pretty mid 30-ish women wanting to be my friends. Turned
out that they are old school friends of my kids.

Oh, I get those too. I think we all do.

Or do you mean they really are old friends of your kids, not just
"professional" women?

Andy

On 11/10/2015 22:29, Martin wrote:
They are friends of my kids, who are in their thirties.

Pretty women you say? Perhaps you could pass them on to my sons who are
of that age and seem resolutely single!

Andy

On 2015-10-10 04:14:40 +0000, Robert Harvey said:

sacha wrote:

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!

Ha! Found you. Many thanks.

Bob Harvey

Good to see you there, Bob.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 18:16:16 +0100, sacha wrote:

One of the groups I belong to is UK and Friends Gardening. It's
moderated in that 'nasties' won't be permitted but there is no heavy
handed "you can't talk about cacti in here" stuff going on!

Thank you - I have asked to join, will see how it goes!

----

Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border
on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades.