Face book

Yes I am on facebook, I use it to post photos of grandchildren for rest of family. I keep in touch with friends from other parts of the country too.

I love facebook. . Find out all sorts of interesting stuff. Check your your privacy settings tho.

Oh yes MoggieB - and most importantly talk to your GCs about safety.
Some of them befriend anyone who asks, even if they don't know them just so they appear to be popular. Some of them could be unknown adults.
Adults too do very stupid things. Teachers in a local school posting photos of the deputy head drunk, and pretending to pole dance, was an unfortunate example.
I use it to play scrabble, a move or two a day, with my DH. Real time scrabble with him too frustrating as each of his moves seems to last about an hour...
Also some younger folk seem to respond more reliably to a message via facebook than to a normal email.

I love Facebook too. I retired last year and find it a great way to keep in touch with old colleagues- just commenting on their posts occasionally lets them know that I am thinking of them.
Sometimes, it's the only way that I know what relatives are doing. If I can't get in touch, I look on Facebook and find that they have taken the children out for the day.

Much to Mr G's horror, I too use Facebook so I can keep up with photos of my grandchildren and also see what my 3 daughters are up to although that's about all I use it for - technology not being top of my 'can-do' list!

We use Facebook to keep up with the news from friends & family. Whenever we phone our Son and ask "any news" he always says "No nothing much" , find out much more from his Facebook page.

I too love FB. I keep in touch with some (selected) of my ex pupils, have got back in touch with a few people from the past and have a great laugh with my 3 daughters ...especially if we are all watching the same TV programme.
Due to my husbands illness I hardly ever go out so I find FB invaluable as a contact with others ..it keeps me sane.
Make sure your profile account is https which is more secure than just http.
My husband ''lurks'' on my FB so I have to watch what I say if I am feeling abit 'fed up'

I enjoy Facebook for the 'keeping in touch' aspects already mentioned.
I also enjoy Twitter and follow Gransnet there. Lots of Gransnet tweets point you in the direction of really interesting articles/programmes etc.

OK, I've found Granset on facebook, but how do I join it/get messages from them. I have trouble getting my head around how facebook works.

??? I only see a "like" button next to individual posts, I have clicked a few of them. I'm sure i used to get Gransnet messages, but they seem to have stopped.

I'm on FAcebook too, but under another name. I play Wordscraper (with my cousin in Canada (she can't access Scrabble) as well as keeping up with friends and family. I've found old (and now we're retired I mean old(!)) friends on there.

Anyone like a game of Wordscraper? I'ts very like Scrabble but without the annoying pings and flashes.

Ok found problem, Gransnet was on my "hide" list

I'm on Facebook. I set my privacy controls to 'friends only' That way I know only the people I want to see anything can see anything (if you know what I mean!)

I love FB - and Twitter too!

I love Twitter too. You get the feeling that you are having a gossip! Such fun!

I get to know what my children are up to on there ! They say stuff on there they wouldn't usually tell me - most of it funny !
I also post them messages on there when I can't get hold of them because they check in there often - so its a handy way to get hold of them.

I'm on Facebook. Have regular contact with family...get to share all the latest photos and gossip. Even got to nose around granddaughter's latest flat, in London, and view the garden the very moment she and her partner moved in. The cooker was exceedingly clean, which pleased me a lot! Have a few selected friends on Facebook, too. As I live in a remote area of Scotland, FB is the perfect site for keeping in touch. Also enormous fun to be able to bore my friends silly with latest photos of the newest grandson...and, in turn, I get to ooh and ahh over their grandchildren.

Have just clicked the like button on the Gransnet on FB so now I can keep up to date with things on here.
Like janthea I have set my privacy controls to friends only.

At last I have found some people who enjoy fb, as I do. I get so fed up with people who say it is rubbish and a waste of time as if it is something beneath them. I think it's a bit like Big Brother, Soaps and Marmite, you either love it or hate it. I so enjoy keeping up to date with family and friends. Does any one play the Mindjolt games on FB? I find they are very relaxing and also helps keep the old grey matter ticking over!!

I love the Mindscape games, and also play Scrabble with my sister who lives about 200 miles from me, so it's a lovely way of keeping in touch.Dordor I'd love to try Wordscraper - can we sort it out?