Social Media in general

DK, that is the beauty of using both FB and forums so you can get the best of both worlds, just a pity the powers that be can't get this one sorted.

I take a peek at FB, Twitter etc but I'm not bothered about them unless I want a point of contact with people I know...but then people I know send me messages about messages on FB and I'm happy to be at the end of the receiving line. On here I find CT is the more robust and informative platform, even if it at times it is a pain to use and peruse. 

It's good to offer help to anyone who wants to know about social media. So thanks Alison for bringing this up.

Give me a "proper" forum any day. You can get a sensible discussion and dissemination of information on those. Facebook is really only suitable for transient trivia. As for Twitter.... the name says it all.

Seems a reasonable summation Cyber

I think the assumption that most retired folk don't do Facebook etc is somewhat false. We are in our 60s and along with most of our friends we are on FB. We find it useful to see what friends and family are up to and for sharing pics or sending private messages... In addition, by liking various venues, pubs, theatres,bands, suppliers, local radio, caravan clubs etc you get fed information about offers, what's on and when, about all kinds of things that are of interest to us.

CT is a completely different thing, it's a discussion forum mostly about caravanning topics, and whilst it can be, and is useful, has a more limited brief.  

Another well over 60 retiree who also uses FB. I have to agree with Cyberyacht, it is full of trivia much of which I block but it is useful along with the private messaging for keeping in touch with my widespread family and close friends. I rarely read the CMC page and the only time I have posted on it is to tell them this forum was down.

peedee

Another over 60 who does not do face book or twitter. Folk keep saying it is good for keeping in touch with family. However, we find What's App,(which I think is owned by FB) Face Time, iMessage and even good old email plenty.

It would be nice if you could add photos and videos as easily on CT as on WA, we might see a few more then. Perhaps one day.😂

My view of Companies that use FB is that they overuse it such that any notifications you buy into become a nuisance. This is also true of both the main Clubs and at least one of my family. Spam email has much the same effect, it is all eventually  ignored or blocked.

peedee

Age is certainly no barrier to using fb. Both over 60 and we use it.  Started out as the ?only ? free method of committing when our daughter moved to NZ 10 years ago. Friends are strictly limited, but suggested posts drive me mad. I have tried looking at this club on fb but it's trivia. Can't follow a subject through even if there was one worth it. One of my frequent suggested posts is the club, I see that more comments have been added but even if I care to reread previous posts and scroll I can't find them.

My biggest gripe is that the club acknowledge posts ie don't think much of new magazine, signs, problems with sites, granted they only acknowledge and say they've passed on to relevant section, but at least there is response. There are so many threads on here, nowhere near the numbers there used to be 😉, so it should be possible to monitor them? 🙄 Some could be stopped in their tracks, eg filling water tanks without being on site, dogs off leads, currently the one about new entry to new facilities block at Southport,  which would stop speculation by posters and some unnecessary bad feeling. But the HO line is this is for debate not interference. Great but sometimes an acknowledgement and response would be very very welcome.

This forum slow it may be 😉 does have some very helpful threads if only you can re-find them 😉