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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  14 March

  I think you might find that many forumites loath Facebook and will not have anything to do with it.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  14 March

  I don't actually loathe FB, I am a member of a couple of groups for specific holiday locations.  Apart from any other problems with FB I find it virtually impossible to find posts I'm looking for.  It certainly doesn't work in the way any forum I've been a member of does.

  Somebody on FB actually once claimed I must be troll because I don't have hundreds of 'friends' on there.  My response of 'all my friends on FB are real friends' didn't go down very well.

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  14 March

  I'm a member of a few well run private facebook groups, rudeness isn't tolerated. I don't post much otherwise. My 'friends' are real friends or people I've met in the groups, there aren't many. Facebook is what you make it, mine is peaceful, concerning only gardens and wildlife

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  14 March

  I don't do Facebook. It's not so much about loathing it, I just don't see any need to use it.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• GardenGrower11 Posts: 312

  14 March

  And for those wanting identification of plants, there are many helpful and expert members in this group:
  
  Plant Identification UK
  
  https://facebook.com/groups/586029354781067/
  

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• WAMS Posts: 1,960

  14 March

  I like both of the above!
  
  All of the gardening groups on FB are so polite and friendly. People seem to behave a bit better when posting under their real names lol.
  
  Other good groups:
  
  
  David Austin Roses
  
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/313936953538179/?ref=share
  
  
  Growing Roses in the UK
  
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/373276313796568/?ref=share
  
  
  Paul Zimmerman Rose Gardening
  
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/58500441971/?ref=share
  
  
  Dahlias UK
  
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/695464414184601
  
  
  Growing Garden Roses with Grace Rose Farm
  
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/growinggardenroseswithgracerosefarm/?ref=share
  
  
  

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• BenCotto Posts: 4,718

  14 March

  From time to time I look at My Gardening World on Facebook. It really is quite dreadful, tainted especially by fake A1 photos of gardens that are met with squeals of delight from the clientèle. I try to rattle their cage by pointing out they’re praising something that doesn’t exist but I might as well feed strawberries to dogs. The gullibility and lack of critical thinking shines a light on why Brexit happened and why Trump was elected.

  Rutland, England

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• diggersjo Posts: 172

  14 March

  Fartbook  is just that, hot air with no direction. But worse still a data harvesting place as pointed out by a few here already.... I'm not a luddite ex-IT over 30 years in all aspects and know when to avoid/take care... 

  Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!

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• GardenGrower11 Posts: 312

  15 March

  For those who love our garden wildlife:
  
  UK Garden Wildlife
  
  https://facebook.com/groups/118217445013654/
  

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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  15 March

  Thanks folks, I've joined the plant and wildlife ones.
  Unfortunately, I've been on fakebook since before we all realised about data harvesting, so it's too late for me, I'm already ruined. 😄

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