Thanks for the good words. I must say I think I get better advice from my Gen Y acquaintances than my own generation. Many thanks and once again, glad to have found you.

In my own village, very few people use internet or mobile phones and internet is not very reliable.

I’ve long wanted to start a readwrite site for the village and the recession is motivating me. Which brings me to my point. People want to use social media when their friends do. My mother wants to use Facebook to see her grandchildren’s photos as they travel the world. Other uses might come later.

I reckon my site will fly if I can get a critical mass on to the site and the non-users are motivated to learn to see what is happening and advertise their wares and services. This is the opportunity for the recession as the marginal cost of advertising within a community site is just the shopkeeper’s time.

On my part, it would be useful to know what the greengrocer has in stock before I leave for the shops!

Keep well,
Jo

i’ll miss sandy.

but perhaps twitter will come up with a similar service to fill in the gap left by sandy’s departure, esp since the guy’s crossed over to twitter now.

It annoys me so much because personal contact is just fading away. It also annoys me because it is a lot easier to say yes to a party on facebook and not turn up without letting the host know, because that personal contact is not there. People think they can get away with just not turning up, despite replying ‘yes’ to the facebook invite. In my opinion it is common courtesy to let someone know you’re not coming to their party!