Well Jim You don't need an ipod to try facebook I was very against it till two years ago , a PBS member explained me how to manipulate it I wasn't happy with the way pictures from other "friends" in my page could be posted and started my own group Now 18 months later 3500+ people are enjoying the pictures and knowledge in the group Many times we use the PBS wiki and tell members where they find the PBS and Scottish rock garden society , for me the two best sources for serious information If anybody needs help to be anonymous on facebook just PM me or have a look in our group See link below Roland R de Boer 2238 Route de la Maugardiere F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com Facebook groups:///https://www.facebook.com/groups/bulborum <https://www.facebook.com/groups/518187888211511/> 2014-11-06 1:12 GMT+01:00 Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net>: > I'm sorry to read that Ina has given up on the PBS Forum. I'm sorry, but > I'm not surprised. > In the mid-1990s, when workplace email access became common, I had older > friends who were retiring. We kept in touch over the years, but it became > obvious that they had missed the electronic revolution which was starting. > They never got comfortable with email (which they eventually got in > response to the clamor that "everyone has to have email"), never discovered > the innumerable doors which Google would open. I felt sorry for them. > Now, twenty years later, I'm in the same boat. I'm still on a computer. > Family members are telling me I have to get an iPhone - I'm still on a land > line. When I was out in the working world, the only people who had > wireless communication devices were the janitors. I used to think "I'm sure > glad I don't have to have one of those things with people bugging me all > day and night". My senses of privacy and personal space are evidently very > old fashioned. It's not uncommon now to step outside and hear one of my > neighbors discussing financial and other personal matters in a loud voice > on their front steps (the reception inside is not so good), matters which I > would be mortified to reveal to neighbors. > Every day the daily newspaper provides plenty of evidence that the grammar > and spelling conventions I grew up with are changing rapidly. > I've been marginalized, and I'm sure it's just starting. > A little voice keeps telling me "Get used to it". > Many of the old horticultural organizations are all moaning about dropping > membership and the lack of younger members. But some of those same > organizations refuse to read the writing on the wall: they continue to try > to publish expensive paper journals and hold meetings so sited that the > membership has to travel across a continent to attend. They could save > loads of money by putting their journals on line and using modern > telecommunication innovations to conduct meetings. But they're balking. > And while they balk, they overlook what is really happening on the > ground: there are in fact loads of people with a keen interest in > horticulture, people who for one reason or another did not participate in > the old-style forums. Evidently Facebook gives them the sort of platform > they want. > The old ways of doing things are fading away. I read recently that Yahoo > is starting to distance itself from the Yahoo groups many special interest > groups depend on for communication. > I may be getting old, but I still want to be able to be current, to be > able to keep an eye on what is going on. > Maybe it's time to get an iPhone and check out Facebook. > > Jim McKenney > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, not that any of that is > relevant to this topic. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >