There's an expression, there ain't so such thing as free lunch. You can expect support and warranty claims to be non-existent with some of these companies. I would also suggest very carefully reading the specifications, especially with the cheaper tablets. Not to mention some of these tablets are pirated copies of the work of legitimate companies that have invested tens of millions of dollars in research and development. While intellectual property theft may not seem as brazen as walking into a bank with a gun, it is theft none the less.

Bebet, I got your email in reply to my public post here on the forum, but I choose to have very little private interaction with forum members. What I wish to say, I will say publicly. One thing I will say publicly is you need to stop apologizing for existing. In a three sentence email, you managed to say "sorry" four times. Nothing you said "offended" me - I was just trying to boost you into taking some action to help yourself. As with all public forums, you can take the advice or not. Especially on this forum, no one is trying to bully you. I still stand by what I said, though. This forum and its members can encourage you, but only you can change your life. I personally think living with someone who won't allow you to drive, controls all the money, complains over $10 spent on feminine hygiene - that's abusive. That was my point in the first thread. I stand by it. I would never allow anyone to treat me that way.

The reason I first put the pic on my desktop is that unless you do that when you click to upload to tinypic you have to look thru your files to find the pic you want. Easier (for me) to plan ahead, move the pics to the desktop, and load easily from there as that's the first place that opens. Kathleen, they do store the pics you post thru that site - it you click on images you will see lots of pics people have posted. It's one reason I don't like it because I don't know any way of removing them so don't use it for anything personal altho a lot of people do. There's little privacy here once a person has posted pics and as most know GW 'owns' any pics we post. Pics posted from photobucket can be moved which will break the connection and remove the pic from the thread. It's just one way to post pics if a person doesn't want to use Photobucket. BTW I believe all the photo sites make pics public unless one opts for the private setting.

They do need to check it. And most people have not enabled messaging-- I just looked at several of the HD regulars' profiles. I bet they're not even aware of it. You'll get an email saying you have a message. Otherwise there's no notification on GW itself to show you have a message. But it's not fool-proof--I had a month-old message that I never got an email for.