Bill, I've been seeing 'Ads by Google' recently embedded here in the New England Gardening thread; in fact, there's one right above your post on Sun, March, 18. Annoying for sure but not that intrusive yet. I treat them in the same way way I treat the marketing phone calls I get at dinner and just ignore them. I sometimes wonder about the mindset of the people who create these ads. I think it's a 'spitting into the wind' kind of mentality. They think they'll get one bite out of the thousands who see the ad. Like those funny ads that claim 'a woman in (your town goes here) has found the secret to eliminating wrinkles.' Molie

Ok, so now you have a whole army of people trying to help out. ;-) It's ok if you're not that swift on computers - there's a first time for everything, and no one can be an expert in everything. acraftylady had the right idea - to type in "facebook.com" in the browser bar - known as the location bar - up at the top. Bookmarks can sometimes get out of date and have the wrong computer address. But you tried that and it made no difference. I'm going to go over some things then give you my next suggestion. Firmware is the software built in to a chip on the router. It's the instructions that make the router do its thing. It's doubtful that issue would interfere with one website and one alone. If you can reach Facebook on your iPad - using the same router - then the router is not the problem. You are using the same router, right ? You could try rebooting the router though - just unplug it, wait 15 secs, and plug it back in. Cleaning out temp files : The download that zep516 recommended will do this, but I doubt that will solve the problem. It's harmless to try it though. What you have is prob. a networking related problem. Try this : Instead of typing in facebook.com in the browser's location bar, type in or copy & paste in this set of four numbers - with the periods (dots) in between : 173.252.120.6 (and no http or www - just the numbers with the dots in between) then hit Enter. That is the actual computer address of facebook. 1. Does that work ? The other questions : 2. What browser are you using ? 3. Can you access other websites, just not Facebook ? 3. With your iPad (which is another computer), are you going through the same router ? 4. How are the pigs working out. This post was edited by kbarb on Wed, Oct 15, 14 at 22:11

Tried that, but it loses all the characters, thread breaks and pictures. I tried to "Print Screen". That didn't work either.

I'm not sure setting up a public facebook account...telling the public you are at home and very sick is the best idea. If you are sure to set up the page as private, I guess it couldnt' hurt. But, I think most of your helpers (elderly people who are retired) may not have facebook pages anyway. Unless you have a very close relative who can take off weeks to be with you, I don't think you are going to be able to coordinate volunteers to always be with you. People just don't have the time. I have a good friend on bedrest for a pregnancy, and to even get people over there everyday for a couple hours is hard. You probably need to come up with a different solution if you have to have someone there with you constantly.. I would think you may have to hire a nurse, or helper of some sort. Good luck.