Sue, you go to "account", and then "privacy" and there are 5 subgroups you can choose from. You go into each of them, and change from the default to the selection you want, and then you click on "save". I don't think you'll have a problem being selected into the group... and IF you did, it would only because because the request wasn't noticed right away. It's my understanding that KT members aren't "filtered" to see who of us will be accepted, just that it's a private group to KT members only. Hope I explained that well.

I love Facebook. My facebook friends include some of my current friends, old friends that I had lost track of - people that I had often wondered how they were - what they were up to, etc. and LOTS of family - my mom, my dad, my sister, aunts, uncles, cousins.... my great aunt is on Facebook and she's in her 80s. I have 18 people in my list of friends who are over 50 (I just went and counted), so it really isn't just for younger people. I do have photo albums on my page, but they're only viewable by my friends, and their is no one in my "friends" that I wouldn't feel comfortable showing photo albums to if they were visiting my house. One thing that I think is great about it is that you can make your Facebook profile as public OR as private as you want it to be. My mom is in Italy right now, and she's posting pictures from her trip every few days on her page. She only has about 10 people on her list, but they're all people that she wants to share her photos with, and Facebook is a great way to do it easily. Only people that you accept as your friend can check out your profile, and you can put as much or as little on your profile as you want.

Very well written and very true. I have a cell phone for my dog (just in case) - and I keep it turned off and store it in a cupboard in the other room - when the battery needs charging it never shuts up. No one has the number except my husband who can't remember it. We have a plug-in land line (worked out well during that major power outage a few years back). We do not belong to Facebook or any other social networking forum. We also do not have a GPS that would no doubt result in us turning into someone's house. We have never had a microwave. Heck I could live with a rotary phone. Actually sometimes that is the only way you can reach a company these days since every answer but the one you want is automated - but if you have a rotary phone you can dial a different number - so sometimes I "pretend" - but then confess. I unplug our land-line phone at night due to all of the computer calls that seem go until late at night and start again in the early a.m. What I really hate is when I pick up the phone and it is a computer call and you can't press the disconnect - it just keeps going until finished. I signed us up for the Do Not Call program a few years ago - but it is a joke - doesn't legally apply to so many of the callers - and others just ignore the law and call anyway. Kids are spending too much time on their various electronic devices - twittering, tweeting etc. - no sleeping - not studying - out of hand.

Thanks for that, Digit! I will now be posting pics again—even if they only look like ugly links! I have SO many things blooming in my yard already I’ve been WANTING to post some pics! But have more I need to download/upload (never have figured out which is which!) into the computer first—that I hadn’t bothered since I “couldn’t” post them anyway! Will do it in the next couple days! I don’t have a google+ page! And I don’t intend to ever have one! If I sign up for google+ my WebAlbums will be TOTALLY messed up—as I discovered when I tried to help somebody, last fall, try to figure out how to use Picasa and WebAlbums! It’s a total mess in WebAlbums in “+”, and as near as I can tell, once you sign up for it it’s TOO LATE, and the “new and improved” version (NOT!) is all you have access to anymore. As a matter of fact, if some of your pics really did “disappear,” I wonder if that had something to do with it! I haven’t “updated” Picasa for a couple years either (I just keep telling it NO when it pleads with me to update it!) ‘cause I’m afraid that’ll somehow get me into the google+ version—and I won’t be able to opt out of it again! I REALLY don’t understand why these companies keep trying to “improve” something that’s already working really, really well! (google maps REALLY screwed up their “maps” too, IMO! But I still have a link to Olde Google Maps—that still works! If they ever discontinue the olde maps, I don’t have a CLUE what I’ll use for maps! Bing, IMO, is at least as bad as the “new” google maps! HELLO out there! STOP “fixing” things that don’t need fixing!!!) (And my avatar on FB, which I haven’t signed into for a year!, is an airplane! And that’s the only place I have an avatar at all!!!) I don’t know why you didn’t “need to” change your setting to “enable” PMing, but maybe that’s something else they’ve changed recently—like putting in the ability to enter your zone (tho I’m gonna leave mine in as my “last name!”) When I went to that page I had to change the settings to get them right to enable PMing. Maybe now it’s the default when GW folks get into the houzz site. But there is SOMETHING that needs to be “fixed” for David, because there’s no “message box” visible on His Page, and until that’s there, nobody can PM him. I’m sure it’ll all get straightened out! We are, gradually, getting back to “our old GW!” Never would have believed that when I showed up here the first day and went—SAY WHAT????? I’m really impressed with the admins and all they’ve done! As for me! Maybe I’ll take some more pics tomorrow! Skybird