Online social networking systems.... Twitter and the like

[Maggi Young]

It had to happen ,I suppose though for the life of me I cannot think why  
........ it seems that quite a few forumists are already Tweeting  and making Facebook pages....... so if those of you who favour such things want to let Forum readers know about your activities in such fields then you may post here......

 Wim de  Goede tells me,

"Dear Maggi,

Maybe some pleople would find it interesting to follow us on twitter http://www.twitter.com/bulbsandbollen

We also are curious who we could find on twitter.

With kind regards,
Wim"

[Great Moravian]

My instincts say social networking systems are dangerous.
There is too complex information about a person
in one place.

[emma T]

i made a facebook page for Galanthus     http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_160399837333841&ap=1

It only has 12 members     most of which are friends, 2 of them are dogs (puli ,french bulldog, i think they were just feeling sorry for me )

[Tony Willis]

I am on Facebook and have no problems with it perhaps because I use it for only one thing.

This is it to look at our proxy grandchildren. My daughters best friend has two babies and my daughter is like a second mother to them and so naturally Mrs W. has wanted to look at the  pictures of them on Facebook.

At the time she was not using the pc and so I joined. She now whizzes around on her own laptop.

This has resulted in a number of people asking to be my friend not something that happens often to me!

[Paddy Tobin]

I use Facebook to keep in contact with friend, some in the USA, share family/holiday photographs and the likes. It does lead to requests to "be friends" but I ward off such advances by telling these people that really I am a very nasty person and they wouldn't want to know me and that I really don't have time in my life to follow what they are doing in theirs.  

So, my use of it is quite limited but it does that which I want well.

Paddy

[Carlo]

I twitter as @botanicalgarden. The information shared there is remarkably like that on this forum. Plants, photography, food, drink, music, etc. Like this forum, you share what you want and nothing more. It's actually fascinating to see what happens. I've connected with many people who wouldn't have returned a phone call. It's a tremendous source of links to other valuable information that I would not have otherwise found. (and yes, full disclosure, my daughter works for the company...).

[Martin Baxendale]

I'm on Facebook, as I've mentioned elsewhere on the forum. It's basically just another communication tool like email or the phone, apart from the obvious privacy issues. It can be very useful, as others have said. It's all a question of how you use it. I've just finished a cartoon book about it, The Facebook Addict's Survival Guide which, given that there are 27 million Facebook users in the UK and 500 million worldwide, I'm hoping might sell a copy or two  

[Maggi Young]

It is amazing the sheer number of folks using these sites. I think I better make a public apology here to those people who have sent me repeated invitations to become friends with them  on Facbook.... I'm happy to stick with communicating via  email and the Forum, thanks, so I won't be taking up any of the offers.


I'll be looking out for your book though, Martin.... and I wish you the best of luck in selling to a decent percentage of the twittering faces. 

[Martin Baxendale]

Ta-da!

[Paddy Tobin]

Obviously, Martin, this is all based on personal experience.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

Obviously, Martin, this is all based on personal experience.

Paddy

Of course. Actually, the book is written and illustrated with me and my wife as the typical Facebook 'addicts', for the purposes of the humour. It makes it that bit more personal and funnier. And the final version of the cover (this is a preliminary cover for Amazon) does actually have an arrow to the couple in the bed, with text saying "The author and his wife, both incurable Facebook addicts." Which is a bit of an exaggeration but, again, for the humour. I have no problem with making fun of myself. My wife says I have no embarrassment gene.

[Paddy Tobin]

Ah, my sympathies are with the long-suffering Mrs. Baxendale.

Paddy

[Martin Baxendale]

Ah, my sympathies are with the long-suffering Mrs. Baxendale.

Paddy

Indeed. 

[David Nicholson]

This has resulted in a number of people asking to be my friend not something that happens often to me!

 

[Olga Bondareva]

Emma, I am already going! 
I am a member of one russian social net, all my images you can see here are from my page.