Hello hoovb: I second your concerns about privacy on Facebook. One of the key elements in protecting your privacy on any site is setting intransigent security options on your registered profile. If you need help with the security setting hoops within Facebook...please email me via Gardenweb or Facebook. :) The Facebook Roses Group is in its infancy. It's a place to chit-chat and connect with users on the Rose Forums. For those who already use Facebook or plan to do so, it may facilitate a facile mode of communication with fellow rose enthusiasts. I've befriended a few folks from the Rose forums and am looking forward to learning about their experiences with roses. Bottom-line, each individual has the final say on their decision making. Beauty in diversity! Tangent #1: Boardreader (note: (the link opens in a new window, so you will not navigate away from Gardenweb) is a search engine that that indexes and displays statistics on forum discussions. Hoovb, you top the list as the author with the most number of posts last week! Cool! :) Tangent #2: Did I ever reveal that I like bold and gaudy colors in roses. The stark color combination make me nostalgic about my home country.

pkPonder. Thanks for replying to email. I'll take a look. I have my privacy settings straight I think. It took a while to understand and I also have a friend who announces new threats that FB has put upon our safety. I have not changed to messenger and know others have used it for awhile and wanted me to. Why? My bank credit card was used by an owner of a restaurant who had my receipt from the week before. The man wiped me out without swiping it or getting my signature. Yeah, I have gone after him. My bank investigators got him right away - when I notified them. It is disturbing in many ways. I caught him also swiping it twice and one of those swipes had no signature. It went thru my bank. Scary. Privacy is uncertain anywhere. Pay with cash some say. Need documentation for some things like overcharging. Thanks, Mary for the adblocker info. No, I didn't know I could do that. It is great news to know the site online I looked at shoes yesterday won't show up on FB the next day. I am a student to all of you and do listen. I come back here to just read. Also on FB there are come-ons within the postings. One yesterday shouted "Would you like to know more about your neighbor?" and a link. There were hundreds of people who responded with a resounding NO. FB lets us learn hard lessons on our own while counting the cash they made off of the deceitful people. I detest it but use it to keep up with friends - like everyone else. Next up I will ask u all how to get my "downloaded to PC" IOS pics and videos landing in the right direction and do I have the right software and other hard stuff to easily send them to FB and other places. I think most of you are Android users. But I will wait and let you digest the conundrums I have place on you so far.

I love FB. I don't post much there. I like to see what's going on with friends and family. I have reconnected with people I haven't seen in 40 years. I considerate FB a place for lite chat. It is not a place to bare your soul. Just a place to make "small talk' and share pics, that sort of thing. I don't get the fear factor. It's not a site where any financial info goes nor do you have to post anything personal. Plus there are lots of ways to control your account for added security if you feel you must. I really see the irony that many who don't "trust" FB still will come to boards like these and give out all sorts of personal info,post pics of their children and talk about them etc. There is no way at all this site is protected. We can't even edit or remove our own posts here. Leaves me scratching my head.

Another way to do this is to perhaps START A GROUP using that option at Facebook. I joined a KT group thinking it was this forum only to find out it was for people with the initials KT., lol. So I quickly removed myself from that group. Sapphires