Carolyn I don't mind sharing - I have participated for several years at Delphi which is in some way similar to GardenWeb in that it has multiple forums going on. However their forums have a host & are monitored & the rules are set up for each forum by that host. Delphi has several reader forums including Mystery & Thrillers, Booklovers, Book Sharks just to name a few. The forums tend to be much more active than RP and are friendly in that all comments & books discussed are responded to directly and opinions given. Booklovers just had a discussion on a book by Linwood Barclay & in June they have selected - by popular vote-to read & discuss Heart & Soul by Maeve Binchy. Delphi probably has more than just these 3 readers forums, but they are the ones that I use most. Delphi has 3 membership levels from free to Plus membership which I have because on some of the forums we post photos etc. Delphi also has forums for fancy sigs that you are invited to use. I participate in about 6 of their forums on a regular basis. They have some with cute names that are just for getting together similar I suppose to the Kitchen Table here at GardenWeb. They also have forums on various sewing techniques, knitting etc....the list is endless. Those that know me know that my favorite genre is a good mystery or thriller and that forum has been a goldmine for me introducing me to authors that I had never heard of before. The other forums have recommended books that I would never have heard of much less read....and that given all the books that we mention here. Pat

For whatever reason, nothing I posted yesterday went through... Strange! With this one "friend", I had hidden her earlier but wanted to give it another shot so I could see her stuff now and again (forgot why I hid her in the first place). I don't know what I did, but now all she posted got into my notifications. I did have her set to "follow", which is what I have my other friends set to as well, yet they only get on my notifications if I have commented on something (and similar), while for her, everything she did prompted a notification! I didn't mention the notifications part at first because it didn't dawn on me that this is why it became a problem. All her notifications were drowning out everything else. I think it has stopped now though. Hellion, I get what you're saying, but seriously, some people have no internet-social-skills and though I have over 200 friends on my friends list, only about two or three out of them are posting left and right about every thought that goes through their heads. Or they will share everything they saw that they found somewhat interesting. You can think "oh, cool!" and leave it to that, but don't share EVERYTHING that was cool or funny or cute with everyone! It's too much! I used to know how to simply hide these people, but now I can't figure it out. It makes for a much more pleasant experience to be on FB when these people aren't stuffing my newsfeed constantly. I seriously feel like I need to tidy up, just like when I organize a drawer at home.

I sometimes enjoy the FB translations. I follow a site that frequently posts in Danish, a language I can read only snippets of, and it took a bit of sleuthing to figure out that what FB translated to "beat a crown" really means "flipped a coin". It's actually kind of educational to re-translate the FB translations.

I'm not much of a Facebook user but hashtags seem to tie related posts together making them easier to search for and find other posts that are tagged with the same tag. For instance, if posts are tagged "#sewing" and you wanted to read more posts about sewing, you could click the hashtag (when found on Facebook it's a link) and pull up a bunch of posts that folks had tagged "#sewing". It seems this "form" of Facebook URL will find posts that are tagged #sewing: (of course if you're on Facebook, you can just click the tag) https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sewing and this one for cat pictures: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/catpictures (no spaces allowed? maybe also try cat_pictures) Personally, I post privately so only friends and family can see my posts/images but some folks enjoy getting "Likes", enjoy sharing or just want to be helpful. https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/raising_chickens Probably I'd just google "how to raise chickens" but I suppose if I was reading an article on chicken raising on Facebook I might click a tag if I wanted to read more about raising chickens. (I don't) :)