Getting Onto Facebook

You're right Katek the teens don't do FB anymore they snapchat mostly

I love FB and have set up two groups one a school reunion group has about 50 members the other a charity group has 450 members I d be happy to start a granny's group up if there was any call for it

I use Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends All over the world! it's a great way of staying connected. I love it

I had a Facebook account but I lost interest in it, so I closed it down. Never been interested in Twitter.

Christinefrance, either add something useful or don't comment. I did not suggest any such thing.

Some rather patronising comments on here. Assumptions made that because some older people choose not to use social media they do not understand the technology.

I don't do FB. I don't feel left behind. I just don't like FB. My teenage granddaughter tells me she and her friends have moved on to other things now such as Instagram and Snapchat or whatever.

I discussed this with my GD who is 18 and was here today.
She offered to set it up for me but expressed some reluctance as to being her friend. Am I likely to read things I may not like to read?.
My 51 year old single D might be as reluctant so I may not bother.?

I spend far too much time on here, and looking at on line shopping I have thought about face book as all my family is on it but can't be arsed to be honest. I have a look just to be nosey to see what they are all doing but not bothered about posting about me really.

I have recently started adult colouring in, and wanted to improve my work - shading etc, so have been googling information about it.

There are several "closed" groups on Facebook (not secret). I asked to join two and was accepted. There are no real life groups in my area. If you have a particular interest, these groups are great for linking people all round the world. Members can show their latest work, review materials etc, and just chat and encourage each other.

I also belong to an open local group, which has all sorts of information about my immediate area. I recently asked for recommendations for a good mechanic, and found a business I never knew existed.

It is important to make sure your privacy settings are strict enough - attached may help. www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/how-to-manage-your-security-settings-on-facebook/

FB is as safe as anything else as long as you take sensible precautions and use the higher security settings. I do not accept friend invitations from anyone that I do not know in real life and would not post anything on there that I wouldn't say in real life. I think it is marvellous, and we have for example, a cousin's group on Messenger so that we can all keep in touch with family events and goings on, post photos of holidays etc, even though we are scattered all over the UK and beyond. There are lots of interest groups too that can be good to dip in and out of and we have a good one in the village to alert other people of road works or flooding or news about fund raising for local events etc, as well as selling stuff and posting help messages for missing pets and such.

So there is Tanith, I missed it. Thanks for pointing it out. It is a fun group. I like their memes and funny posts. Good for starting your day off. I think FB is great.
It is relatively easy to open an account and very visually bright and cheerful mostly.

I use Facebook extensively. I set my settings to the highest privacy and nothing is made public only to a limited audience.

We tested it this our recently with a video we took on a family holiday. Grampy posted it to certain individuals. They all 'liked' it but no-one could save it and none of their friends could see that they had liked it.

Perfect solution for those of us with far flung family and friends who want to see life's little daily ups and downs ( and what they had for dinner !!)

I also belong to a number of hobby pages which has resulted in some real life friendships. Bit like here really.

nina1959 SilverSurfers is a group, there is a button to join the group on the page you've linked to..

I use Facebook to keep in touch with family, and friends i wouldn't otherwise see because of distance. There are indeed interest groups, I'm in two relating to places I've lived and where my family lived and in groups concerned with issues like animal welfare, politics of course but also things like smart meters or art exhibitions. I've become the friend of other friends through it and we all share humour, photos and news. It enhances life.

The instructions about privacy are clear. You don't have to be friends with anyone you don't know and you can control who sees your page. I think it's very socially useful. It's a shame that so many older people are still lacking in confidence about using the internet.

I use facebook to catch up with family members and old colleagues and friends. Some of my family are abroad or live far away so we keep up with some of them via FB I feel much more connected to my extended family now then I did before FB and reconnect with people that I'd lost contact with . I belong to a great knitting site and a local site with lots of local titbits, I have a couple of health concerns and there are numerous great sites with plenty of info about my various problems.
All in all I think its great if you keep your settings in order.

Ha, ha.

Like this one. It's not a group, it's a page.

www.facebook.com/SilverSurfers50/

They have one for grumpy old gits too just so none of you feel left out.

You're taking my words out of context Ana. There is a section of seniors who are not familiar with how FB works only because they might be nervous about posting personal info, or because they just don't know how to use it. Some of them are on their own so I thought I'd just ask the question, that's all.

The very fact that we're all on GN must mean we're tech-savvy to some degree, and just because some don't want to join FB doesn't necessarily mean they don't have many friends or feel disconnected and/or lonely.

In what way Ana?

.....of celebs. I also....

So much for previewing

I use FB to keep in touch with far flung friends and family. I'm part of to the local history group on there and I follow a couple pf celebs. I alsoI use freebay to get rid of stuff. My only 'friends' on there are those I know in RL or people I share a mutual friend with. I don't accept friends requests from random strangers.
If your careful how you use it, it's great in my opinion.

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You're making quite a lot of assumptions there, nina1959!