New Gransnet Movement – "Old Pride"

On feminist marches we used to chant:

^Can’t kill the spirit
She’s like a mountain
Old and strong
she goes on and on^

Is this movement for old women only or are old men welcome too?

I've just posted links to this thread on the Kingston upon Thames and the Brighton and Hove local sites.

I like this photo:

www.123rf.com/photo_9115151_happy-elderly-woman-holding-her-thumb-up.html

and this one...
www.123rf.com/photo_9258872_old-woman-isolated-on-white-background.html

For those who have not done Facebook and Twitter - I hadn't either until a few weeks ago (#pitchforkedinheadfirst)

You can have a Facebook account and show nothing at all on it that can be seen by anyone, except your name and the fact of your existence. From it you can then look at other people's Fb pages - millions of them. It is even more absorbing than GN, if that is possible.

There are closed groups and secret groups, as well as open ones that anyone can join. To get into a closed or secret group you need to be invited. The names of closed ones can be found by searching, but the secret ones are . . .secret.

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I'm with you lot all the way! I'm positively proud to be elderly, if a little creaky, and I'm truly HAPPY...just saying!

Butty 'Old woman on white background...' What a lady! Love her spirited stance.

I'm in!

If you scroll down through soop's photo's there's one of the GN Edinburgh meet up (below the one of glass); I think it would be perfect for the photo that goes at the top of the FB page. It shows how diverse us older women are.

Since there is/was a band called Old Pride, could we add in Gransnet perhaps to show where it started and to distinguish us (because we are anyway)?

Old Pride from Gransnet ???

Gransnet Old Pride?

What do people think?

I'll ask HQ via site wotsits as well.

It looks as though they are about to become Ex Old Pride, bags

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Old-Pride/153389551389624?fref=ts

It does leave a vacancy though ( as when a man marries his mistress)

Sorry, forgot to blue that
www.facebook.com/pages/Old-Pride/153389551389624?fref=ts

What sort thing would you be posting on the facebook/twitter accounts? Sort of: Hello, it's Thursday and I still haven't had any work done on my face?

Just a bit

Just thought of a pride of lions, which is mainly composed of sister lionesses, who do the hunting, plus their cubs and a resident male who does d* all except eat, copulate and see off other males.

Or, is it going to be a break-away Gransnet? With limited subjects?

Or one big clique?

Just asking.

I like the pride of lions idea, elegran.

If we include the word Gransnet in our title would we need to run everything past HQ because of branding issues?

If so, would OlderPride get round it? Doesn't have quite the same ring to it though.

Whatever we think of or find on the net, Fb or Twitter that promotes pride in not being a green youngster , jings

Groups have been created and thrived on lesser aims.

Pretty big clique, Jings there are a whole lot of people out there who qualify.

Crossed with your update Elegran, OldPride may be OK now?

Not a clique, no. And not a discussion forum. At least that's not how I see it. Just a public page about how being old is nothing to hide from or be ashamed about or try to disguise if you don't want to.

You wouldn't have to be a gransnetter to look at it, like it, etc, but it could acknowledge that it sprang from Gransnet. Good publicity for them.

Oldie Pride?

You are sure you won't be mistaken for a group of old gay people?

You could get him to join.

No Bags that is associated with the Oldie mag.

notso Duplicate names appear to be OK on Fb anyway. sometimes when you google a name you gets dozens of the same one. Hard to pick out the one you want.

Bags The Oldie magazine might have something to say about that!