On 11/2/2018 6:21 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 11/2/2018 7:22 PM, joy wrote:
On 11/2/2018 4:14 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 11/2/2018 1:44 PM, Tina wrote:
On 02/11/2018 05:21, MaryL wrote:
On 10/23/2018 7:38 PM, Cheryl wrote:
On 2018-10-23 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 10/23/2018 1:08 PM, Tina wrote:
Jill, I wish you'd try a bit harder with FB rpca. OK there's a
lot of people you don't know, but you do know some of us, it's
just you may not recognise their real names. FB rpca does take
some getting used to, it's different, extremely fast paced, just
reply to what you like, tick to like others with various
emoticoms, and ignore the rest that you don't have time for..
I'm sorry you didn't feel welcome, of course you are. It's just
different, you'll get used to it. Persevere.

Thanks!Â* I never said I didn't feel welcome.Â* I just don't like
the FB interface.

I don't like Facebook either. I tried it once, very briefly, many
years ago, took against it and decided I didn't need to spend even
more time on the computer learning to use a program I disliked
from the start.

I do miss some of the old groups I used to follow - pretty much
defunct now, all of them, but I doubt I'll give Facebook another
try. There's not much point, since it's such a different kind of
software than the discussions I liked ran on that I doubt I'd like
it any more than I did all those years ago.

Admittedly, I sometimes feel like I'm out of the Ark, since just
about everyone I know seems to be on Facebook, but joining still
doesn't appeal to me.



I don't use FB because they share personal information (a problem
that became even more obvious with recent events).

MaryL


Hi, MaryÂ*Â* Nice to hear from you.Â* Yes, the Facebook interface is
very different, it does take some time to get used to it, but it's
worth persevering. The rpca Facebook group is a secret group - i.e.
no-one can find it if they search for it.Â* You have to be approved
to join it, the admins are people you know, so no worries about you
being approved and only rpca members can see your posts. Most of the
old friends you knew from here are on there.Â* I'm sure they'd love
to see you again. Will you give it some thought at least?
It's a huge group now, there are many people you won't know yet, and
the ones you did know who had nicknames use their real names, but
I'm sure they'll introduce themselves.
Usenet is dying, Mary, please give FB rpca a chance for 6 months. It
does take a while to learn the interface and how to respond but I
think you might be glad if you did. I leave it up to you.

RPCA usenet will die if everyone stops posting here.

Jill

I intend to post here as long as anybody else does.

I'm doing the best I can to keep the usenet group alive!Â* Too bad Buffy
doesn't perform BCT's worth posting about every day. LOL

As far as photos are concerned, I don't need FB to see pics of our cats.
Â*There are plenty of free photo hosting sites available for sharing pics.

As Mary pointed out, Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately
when it comes to security concerns.

As far as a huge group, I'd rather have a nice intimate group of friends
chatting here on usenet.Â* IMHO, Facebook is entirely too invasive.

Hey, I don't want everything in my house controlled by Smart technology,
either.Â* I had the HVAC unit serviced on Wednesday.Â* The technician told
me they are testing a Smart thermostat with Alexa voice technology built
in.Â* A guy told him he had to disable that feature because his kids were
ordering things from Amazon by talking to the thermostat!

Sorry, sometimes technology is just a bit too much.Â* For me, so is
Facebook.Â* I like text.Â* It's simple.

Jill

Believe me, I understand! I've been in Toastmasters for 28 years. I
love it. We always had actual paper manuals for our speech projects.
It was great! You could look through the manual, read about the
projects, and decide which one you wanted to do next. A few months ago,
Toastmasters switch to something called Pathways. It's on line, and you
can only see one project at a time. It's a real pain. Of course the
idea was to attract young people, and some of the younger people I know
love it. I suspect they're going to lose a lot of us oldsters, though.
I'm sticking around for now, but that's partly because we're still
allowed to use the old system for another year or so. After that, I
don't know. A lot of newer things are good, but so are a lot of old things.