Facebook

[elvis2003]

its not fair or accurate to say FB is in direct conflict with A4A,the sites are completely different and i use them for completely different things!!
as an aside,i found my two sisters in america thru FB,and my dad is so happy to be reunited with them.
A4A has given me many many brilliant things and i wont be stopping using it!
rach

[elvis2003]

[asbean]

And of course - - - KNITTING - - -  ::) ::) ::) ::)  that occupies both hands

[ACE]

Hey, I'm not saying facebook is not welcome, it must be really good for all you folk keeping in touch. I am only saying what has happened on other sites I have been on. Posters come on less and less, just like Cambourne for example, she used to be on every day but has only posted once this month and that is to drum up support for facebook.

As some people say they have plenty of time to get on line no matter what the site perhaps it will not affect us.

I still do not think it is bad manners to tout for another site. Links are different they are usually sources of information.

[Flunky]

Hey, I'm not saying facebook is not welcome, it must be really good for all you folk keeping in touch. I am only saying what has happened on other sites I have been on. Posters come on less and less, just like Cambourne for example, she used to be on every day but has only posted once this month and that is to drum up support for facebook.

As some people say they have plenty of time to get on line no matter what the site perhaps it will not affect us.

I still do not think it is bad manners to tout for another site. Links are different they are usually sources of information.

ACE I would PAY to see your photos and status updates ! lol.

[Sinbad7]

But Cam started this topic October 2007  ;D  ;D  ;D

[ACE]

Pity we are not in the watershed, I am swearing out loud. Sorry Cam. Blame that calamityjayne.

didn't look at the date :-[

[Baaaaaaaa]

I joined FB sometime ago. Was completely bored with it within a week, not been back since.

Also dont like the idea of information gathering/ being monitored. Always remember, anything as popular as FB will not be given away free.  :o

[Carol]

I am one of the folks who like Facebook in order to keep in touch with rellys.  I have just finished a half hour chat with Niece No. 2  arranging the weekend with her.  Now that is handy.  But, as you see I am back in here so there is room for all the different sites we visit during the course of an evening.

:D :D

[Hyacinth]

Eye bin torkin tonite to the US on SKYPE 8) Often I talk to Singpore and Thailand on SKYPE 8)

Bloody brilliant is SKYPE ;D ;D ;D

[Carol]

I would have SKYPE as well if I had relatives living overseas, its a great way to keep in contact and see who you are talking to,  wonderful.

;) ;)

[asbean]

I speak to Tokyo every week on Skype.   :) :) :)  and often to Belgium, Canada and Italy - all at the same time.

In fact - do you remember the predecessor of Skype - ICQ???  I used that on dial-up in Italy off my laptop, carrying on a three way conversation with my sons in England and my friends in Oz.  And we thought that was brilliant!!!!  How things change in 10 years.

[Sinbad7]

I speak to my friends in Canada a couple of times a week on Skype too,  have done for a couple of years now.

Skype's been around for quite a while now.

[KathrynH]

Another fan of Facebook and Skype here. Each has its own uses and in this day and age of technology and ever increasing ways of communication I'm happy to embrace them all. If it helps us to keep in touch then so much the better. It's a big enough world for all of them.

[Mrs Ava]

Another Facebook fan here.  I am a member of several forums, posting less on this one after a couple of 'incidents' but I still browse and pick up good tips, especially Tims recipes  :P .  I chat to some a4a members on facebook who I have become friends with, and yup, like others, I can chat to my family in oz, a mate who has been travelling.  I loves it!   ;D

I might be repeating something already said, but as I recall, Cam started the A4all appreciation site when a4all had problems with hackers cocking things up and the site was up and down a lot over a period of weeks.  She wanted somewhere where people could pop and say, oi, whats going on or whatever, I don't believe for one minute she was trying to drag peeps away for A4all.  As for her not posting much, well, tis spring and I think historically on lots of sites, people have been busier in spring and not getting online as much, lots of seed sowing to be doing.

[Hyacinth]

EJ,a coupla things here from a non Facebook contributor nor even a Poster of Pics here to use the 'click' link for pics, tho I DO surreptitiously slip him some £££s via a friend 8)...

I tale your point completely (and thanks Cam 8)) for setting up the site on The Book when Lotties had probs back in 2007..

Dan himself ran into financial probs when this site became more popular and bigger, and then asked for a £10 contibution towards ease of posting direct to here to offset his costs of  keeping the site viable. I don't post pics but lob in a bit, see above...and why? Cos Dan & Lotties is Worth It and I appreciate all that I find here - long may it continue.

It's great that the two co-exist and have co-existed since 2007!

BUT, when ACE read this post a coupla days ago he hadn't realized it was so old...(neither had I).....but that it had been 'bumped' by someone else....and so he responded (as did I)  to a new post.....

And there's the confusion.

IF it seems that you Happy Snappers don't detract from Dan's essential income ( and it seems that it doesn't) no probs.....

Nevertheless......even tho it's an old post resurrected, I still don't think it's on to have it so prominently displayed, if it might, just might, mean that Ower Dan might be a loser...

Do-As-You-Would-Be-done-By maxim springs to mind.

:-\

[asbean]

What springs to mind is to bump another topic ... ...