Please vote for our club - Page 2

Margaret Pilkington · 18-01-2013, 07:29

I do feel like I am one of the few!

susie123 · 18-01-2013, 10:01

Margaret I'm with you al the way on Facebook. Richard had to open an account years ago because the then secretary of his bowling club decided it would be a good way of communicating with members. That lasted about five minutes.

I occasionally look at his page just to remind myself how crass the whole thing is - he doesn't use it but some folk he knows send him things all the time and it's such rubbish.

So you are not alone.

Margaret Pilkington · 18-01-2013, 10:07

I am glad to know that there are people out there who can see through this social network thing....how insidious it is........and I know that there are people out there who will tell me it is just a tool, and that any tool can be used for either good or ill.
It is just a tool that I won't use(and isn't the word 'tool' a euphemism/derogatory for something that is a bit brainless?)

I can't abide the concept that accruing internet 'friends' is like having real flesh and blood friends.
I have been invited many times to join, but have always declined.

Bernard Dawson · 18-01-2013, 10:25

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No Rob.....I can only think of one use for facebook...and it is that of a (greedy, shallow) bad example.
Maybe it is a generational thing....and I'm of the wrong generation.
I detest facebook.......and wouldn't join if they paid me.

I go one and now and then, but i know what you mean Margaret. There's a lot of it I cant cope with. Some of the things that people come out with on Facebook, are frankly embarrassing.

Margaret Pilkington · 18-01-2013, 10:31

My daughter used to be on, as a way of keeping in contact with her Uni friends...but she has not been on the site now for almost a year...she has the e-mail addresses of those people she really wants to stay in touch with and that is all that is required.
I think that younger people(by that, I mean those who are younger than me) set great store by knowing what everyone else is saying and doing....and most of it is irrelevant to real life anyway.
My only experience of Facebook(I even hate typing the word) was seeing the stuff on my daughters page...and her page was mainly about her professional stuff.
I don't think she misses being part of this social network..she can't fo or she would be active on it...and isn't.

Margaret Pilkington · 18-01-2013, 10:32

Anyway we have neatly hi-jacked Grange's thread...for which I apologise.
I quite like Galaxy hot chocolate...now and again...back on thread now.

Neil · 18-01-2013, 20:49

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No Rob.....I can only think of one use for facebook...and it is that of a (greedy, shallow) bad example.
Maybe it is a generational thing....and I'm of the wrong generation.
I detest facebook.......and wouldn't join if they paid me.

I am a saddo I admit, I go on a facebook group for people with Beagles. People arrange walks where they meet up and let the dogs walk and play together. Many of the people have become firm friends because of the regular meetings - usually once or twice a week.

They support the Beagle Welfare rescue charity which is where our second Beagle came from.

At the moment a group of volunteers have spent 12 days searching for a missing Beagle in Dorset. One of the ladies is from Kent but is in Dorset with her dog because he has had a lot of success tracking and finding lost dogs before. People who don't know the owner are out searching. Many people have donated money to be used as a reward and to pay for accommodation for the lady out tracking. Last time I looked the donations were more that £700.

This is not the first time I have seen people looking for lost dogs they don't know. They were out searching in Warrington a couple of months ago and Nottingham recently. Both dogs were found.

I know this has nothing to do with the thread but now you know 2 uses for facebook

Neil · 18-01-2013, 20:52

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I can't abide the concept that accruing internet 'friends' is like having real flesh and blood friends.
I have been invited many times to join, but have always declined.

There is only one person on my facebook that I have never met. I have known her as an online friend only for 15 years since we used to chat and file share back in the direct connect hub days. I might have 2 people come to think of it, her and a Canadian fella from the same place.

Margaret Pilkington · 18-01-2013, 21:05

Well, Neil...you know that old saying...'the exception tests the rule' you have to be that example.......and if it proves useful to you then that is good.......from what you say it sounds like you are doing a great job...anyone who does good things to help animals is OK in my book.

Restless · 18-01-2013, 22:13

My friend paid for me to see Gary Numan(hes the fan) and I made a bootleg recording with Mindisc(what I had at the time) and shared it on a website where people put share their recordings with others. A woman commented saying she also taped it but her recording didn't come out so good and that mine was better and she is a real huge fan of Gary Numan. Collector of almost all his shows....

A year or two later I was playing Farmtown on Facebook and got talking to somebody on there that agreed to add me as a friend and so we could do each others harvesting in the game etc etc. So I got talking to her and she asked where I am from blah blah. I told her and somehow got on subject of guitars and stuff. Her husband played guitar. So I said what music do you like. She said Gary Numan. Conversation led to the conclusion that she was that person from the concerts website. Such a strange coincidence and I made an online friend there on Facebook rather than the live concerts website.