My suggestion would be that PBS officers take over the PBS page in Facebook and use it to promote membership in the Pacific Bulb Society and this list. I suspect we would find new members who were unaware of this e-mail list. Jim Shields At 01:33 PM 7/30/2011 +0000, you wrote: >I do not have any activity in Facebook, specially since I started >receiving unrequested information on private matters and preferences of >people I do not even know, just "friends" of "friends" of "friends". You >all must be familiar with the privacy problems that over and over arise. > >Personally, I am against anything that weaken PBS efforts in any way. What >we must do is encourage more people to support PBS by becoming members and >donating seeds and bulbs and not finding fancy ALTERNATIVES. > >And one would expect that "friends" of PBS in Facebook would be people >that at the very least post in the (open to all) forum. Besides John >Grimshaw, the others don't. > > > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:10:09 +0200 > > From: bulborum@gmail.com > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Subject: Re: [pbs] PBS on Facebook > > > > > if no Facebook page already exists for that club then one is > automatically created. > > > > This is one of the things I mean > > Too aggressive > > > > I had less as two weeks an account > > and there where hundreds of people > > who wanted to be "friends" > > because I know some people > > you seems to be automatic "friends" with everybody > > > > Sure The PBS the SRGC and some other do a fantastic job > > but as you said: The Yahoo Group for Haemanthus is barely alive > > > > My father told me > > if something doesn't work > > look in the mirror > > and ask yourself WHAT DID I DO WRONG > > > > sometimes too many people do the same > > the best will survive > > > > Roland > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > R de Boer > > La Maugardiere 1 > > F 27260 EPAIGNES > > FRANCE > > > > Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 > > Email: bulborum@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W