Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Mar 12, 2011 7:14:07 GMT
Please suspend your disbelief and try not to laugh at a poor old man but after being against this social networking malarkey since it started i'm gradually inclining to dipping my toe into the facebook waters.
I assume most if not all Tinpotters already reside there - maybe that is why few of them come on here on any more- and my son tells me that internet forums are gradually going the same way as analogue TV.
Obviously no one can tell me whether it's worth my while joining but if some of you can give me a bit of a heads-up on your experiences, such as what you gain, what you have to put in, how time consuming is it, security aspects (eg i don't want to put up a "burgle me now!" notice if i'm out of the house for a few days) then looking at your experiences might help me decide whether to stay out of the game or take the plunge.
Hopefully some of you are (or maybe have a friend you know who is ) like me entering their second half-century and has negotiated all these doubts and gone for it, or maybe walked circumspectly away. The registration page, for example scared me half to death asking for phone numbers and "what am i looking for". What the hell does that mean? I'm happy with the wife i've got and i wouldn't ever be looking to find another partner even if we did split up for some reason. And it sounds kind of sad for an old bloke to write that he's "looking for friends" when he learned to be self-sufficient and not burden others long ago.
I don't really feel that i can learn much from my son. He gets all impatient with me when i ask any advice on using some of the new-fangled stuff on the computer (i can usually teach myself better anyway, i may be stupid but i'm not thick) and he may have a vested interest in keeping me from under his feet, demanding extra usage time for myself.
So i'm putting my trust in the "Tinpot Community." Please be gentle with me.
I assume most if not all Tinpotters already reside there - maybe that is why few of them come on here on any more- and my son tells me that internet forums are gradually going the same way as analogue TV.
Obviously no one can tell me whether it's worth my while joining but if some of you can give me a bit of a heads-up on your experiences, such as what you gain, what you have to put in, how time consuming is it, security aspects (eg i don't want to put up a "burgle me now!" notice if i'm out of the house for a few days) then looking at your experiences might help me decide whether to stay out of the game or take the plunge.
Hopefully some of you are (or maybe have a friend you know who is ) like me entering their second half-century and has negotiated all these doubts and gone for it, or maybe walked circumspectly away. The registration page, for example scared me half to death asking for phone numbers and "what am i looking for". What the hell does that mean? I'm happy with the wife i've got and i wouldn't ever be looking to find another partner even if we did split up for some reason. And it sounds kind of sad for an old bloke to write that he's "looking for friends" when he learned to be self-sufficient and not burden others long ago.
I don't really feel that i can learn much from my son. He gets all impatient with me when i ask any advice on using some of the new-fangled stuff on the computer (i can usually teach myself better anyway, i may be stupid but i'm not thick) and he may have a vested interest in keeping me from under his feet, demanding extra usage time for myself.
So i'm putting my trust in the "Tinpot Community." Please be gentle with me.